Stop comparing Intels high end cpu's, nobody buys those, they are 3x the price for a 5-10% performance hit. Unless, you like to spend money. (-;
AMD 2600+ won over the Intel 2.5 in Quake3 by 5% at lower resolutions, and Tied at 1600x1200. (Quake 3 allways shows Intel as faster, but only by 2-5%)
If you notice, half the programs tend to either favor Intel or AMD. The reason is.... The programs are compiled with either SSE2 or AMDnow+ which makes a good 10% performance improvement.
Guess what, if you use opensource software, you can compile with either! Even GCC3.2 is around 12-15% improvement when compiling for with AMD flags, and its very noticeable. Im sure SSE2 will give the same performance for Intel...
Check out toms SciSoft Sandra benchmarks, which takes a CPU, and uses it most optimial settings, and then rates the CPU.
Tom likes to say, this doesnt represent true performance, but if you notice when he looks at Production/Media products with AMD optimizations, they are faster. Mp3 encoding, and 3D Rendering is faster on the AMD, WHEN they use AMD optimizations, or same rating Intel without Intel optimzations.
Its upto you, AMD gives the same performace for better price. And AMD has more affordable dual systems, which Intel dropped (big mistake, imho). If your a power user doing production/media work, a Dual AMD will be a very cost effective powerhouse. (Myself, I was dual Intels till AMD 2000+ rating, and I miss the dual cpu and the absent of pausing when multitasking, but the FPS in games is nice...)
Man, keep pumping those fast cpus/gfx cards out, I love it!
Speaking of resources, where is a good place to hang out and read/chat about perl? Which IRC network, Which Message Forum. Where do all the perl gurus hang? I hear people are dropping from usenet and going to message boards, so which ones?
...and advertising revenue is directly proportional to the receptiveness of the target audience. An audience more impressed by colors and pictures - in other words, less so than by actual information - means more total advertising revenue, and more available revenue means more players in the market.
Easy solution, Post naked pictures of CowBoy Neal, the slashdot crowd would all buy one, thats a million copies right there!;)
Hehe, seriously, I enjoyed the TPJ also, but i only play with perl, I dont do it for a living. I enjoyed the articles for the learning experience. In fact, I read the changelogs for gcc/perl/bsd/linux just to see what is "Really" going on, thats what I like about slashdot and freshmeat, to announce new releases.
Yes, good idea. Next time you want to murder someone, cut his land line, jam is cell phone. That's some good technology there. Also nice that you cant control the range, so the alley next to the movie theater, you cant call 911. when you are being mugged or having a heart attack, you can just thank the friendly cell phone jammer.
WTF is this a War on idiots? Fuck, im tired of people passing laws because a small portion of the public are morons. Warning stickers, Law suits, safety devices, all to combat the morons. "Don't use hairdryer in shower", people who need to be pruned off from the population.
Let me bet, its politically incorrect to talk about people with low iq's, but we can pass laws to stop them.. Humm, small flaw, THEY ARE IDIOTS!
Why don't we just start a new class in school, Living within the law. So by the time they are in the 6th grade, they can know all the laws it takes to live and work in the USA. We can start with mandatory registering with the government (for males only), Hours you can travel and locations off limits, What food and beverages and what areas they can consume them in, Proper media and the allotted hours of viewing, Travel permits, Taxes, fines, and other government fees, Electronic device usage laws, Appropriate contact with other human beings, Appropriate communication, and Proper thoughts.
btw, I have 4 kids in school, guess how many "notice to parents" or just "Friendly Suggestions" I get about these subjects in public schools?
Looking at Toms Hardware chart, Rating a AMD 2400+ vs a Intel 2.4ghz, the AMD is faster in almost all benchmarks. Tom messed up when he compared a 2100+ vs a 2400. AMD's system shows that its processor is faster at its rating level than Intel ghz rating . Even Toms Benchmarks show this.
Thou, I do like the number of benchmarks Tom uses, lame, quake, scisoft sandra, pcmark, sysmark, specview, (I wish he would use madonion also).. But trying not to repeat a few posts, when an application is compiled towards the cpu, it will be faster. Look at Flaskmpg, AMD compiled version showed an incredible speed up. Same with GCC 3.2 (check the changes), they said an average of 8.7 (with 2.6 or something from 2.95) so thats around a 11+ percent increase, Average! 3DNOW or SSE2 Optimzation really makes a big difference on bechmarks, programs should support both.
Cant wait to see what happens when AMD starts its 3000+ chips, and the 64bit hammer comes out.:)
Any lawyers know, Can we counter SUE with the telcos, for trying to censor the Inet access I pay for? Get a couple million people to sign up. Hell, lets find some small town, where the Judge is a card carrying EFF member.:)
If its all legal battles, why cant we fight back? Why are we so powerless? Why cant we win?
- I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. - J. Edgar Hoover
Strange. Lets take a little look at the this website/server.
Proxomitron GET http://www.listen4ever.com/ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.listen4ever.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; I USE MOZILLA, Support Mozilla www.mozilla.org) Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,tex t/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/pn g,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1 A ccept-Language: en-us, en;q=0.50 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive
+++RESP 112+++ HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 04:25:24 GMT Location: http://www.mp3mediaworld.com Content-Length: 149 Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDGQGQQVBY=HNHJFELBEKKDNLLOJBCNPHHP; path=/ X-Cache: MISS from sexy Proxy-Connection: keep-alive +++CLOSE 112+++
Lynx
[iw@sexy] ~ >lynx -noredir -dump -source http://www.listen4ever.com/ snip This object may be found @ HREF="http://www.mp3mediaworld.com"
nmap Interesting ports on (61.136.61.40): (The 1542 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 21 ftp 25 smtp 80 http 85 mit-ml-dev 135 loc-srv 139 netbios-ssn 1021 unknown 1025 listen 1030 iad1 1433 ms-sql-s 3389 msrdp 6666 irc-serv
Port 6666, looks like some gnutella clone or something.. -> repeats this line "f:\songlib/-NeAmL/IN/s/w1r`O"
I think this is a persons workstation, so they are redirecting to save bandwidth. (IMHO)
I would love if everyone used HTML with pdfs for the diagrams, but vendors like to charge you 10K for a cd that only works with thier viewers. (If you pay millions for hardware, whats 10K for a document cd?!)
The java programs seems to built for the windows platform, so it wont run under linux.:( But there is a solaris version, im hoping to get.:)
Xfree is cool, but I couldnt use my high end gfx cards with sparc linux, had to use the onboard m64s. ICK! SUN wont write linux drivers for some hardware, ya ya, why use linux when you can use Solaris. Have you even Tried Linux on Sparc? Awesome..
I'm Gonna stick with WinXP as my desktop, everything works great, cut&paste, cleartype makes it easy to read, very stable. What funcationality I miss, I just ssh into my unix box (smb mounted file dirs) and it fills the voids in windows. Using the best of both to get my work done. I tried to go Linux fulltime with VMware, but on the slow laptops work gives you, I need every eek of speed I can get. So if Im in VMWARE running windows most of the time, Might as well just use windows, and get back the speed. We have few guys using Vmware over Linux or FreeBSD, but it is slower, and they drop back to Win98se for speed. (I like WinXP over 98)
Maybe if I had a 2ghz, 1 gig ram, GF4 PC, I would be extremely happy. OH wait, we are trying to SAVE money. Damn.
Theres alot of operational software that is "Windows" only, even if the back end servers are unix based. I work for a wireless telco, so I will list all my software I use on a daily basis.
1. M$ Visio for all network diagrams. 2. M$ Project (Gotta read those due dates from project managers) 3. M$ Office - Most everything else. 4. Adobe PDFs 5. Putty - (Uses 850K of memory per instance compared to 22megs for SecureCRT, with multiple open, my pc is still usable!) 6. Mozilla - Little bit of a memory hog, but Its my favorite, skinned with orbital skin. 7. IE (Eroom, My god, support Mozilla damn it..) 8. Password safe (for my million passwords that change often) 9. Proxomitron (mostly for the proxy selector, big networks, dmz = lots o proxies) 10. Remedy Trouble Ticketing system. (Very nice product for trouble tickets, reports, etc.) 11. Helmsman for Nortel Documents. 12. Ned for Nokia docs. 13. Ericsson docs., still trying to get that program working. Looks like a dos program... 14. xwin32 (still downloading every 30 days, soon as that damn PO gets completed, I'll have my license... Everyone else uses the site licensed ReflectionsX) 15. Climax (cool name, lets me work on multple SGSNs at once. Written in java for windows.) 16. Winamp. (gotta have tunes, Digital-Imported Techno! Aqua Skin) 17. Trillian (Everybody has a different IM, and I only need 1, makes it easy to IM someone on a phone call for info..) 18. AT&T Global Dialer (Must say, for a modem connection, I dont get disconnected as much as my Earthlink account...) 19 Nortel VPN (for winxp and smp support) 20. Winzip 8.1 (Its even registered by our company!) 21. PocketPC software from M$ with gprs/cdpd modems.
I have a Sunblade (w/linux) next to me, but its mostly a gateway X box. I use screen alot, so I can disconnect, and let tasks run.
I use proxomitron to filter out version checking java scripts, so mozilla can load those "IE ONLY" websites...
Proxomitron has to be the best program for http ever, re-write html on the fly and an optional proxy selector (I have 5 proxies at work) makes things soooo easy.
Actually a friend of mine works for M$ Support, and hes not allowed to tell the customer to reinstall the OS. He has to fix the problem with registry edits, dll's, or re-install the application.
I was always joking about the "Re-install" M$ support line also.
Nice number of IDE devices for the ABIT boards
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The IT7-MAX2 can therefore handle eight conventional IDE devices, as well as two serial ATA devices.
10 IDE devices. This is what I want to see with serial ata, is more devices. 4 IDE isnt enough, at least with newer motherboards with built in raid/fast ata, you get 8, but if you want 1 per channel for the best possible speed it limits it to 4.
Currently, I have 2 IDEs one on each fast ata on the mobo, and I get about 47 peak, and 34Meg sustained with IDE. Be nice when the 2 device on a channel is killed off.
I worked for a company that had quad 486 SCO boxes, rather good boxes for a couple hundred people doing customer tracking and parts ordering, each with 3-4 telnet sessions per person. This is when I learned about Merge that allowed our Admins to run SCO/Win311 boxes. (Ok, it was a long time ago!)
I know a few people who run Solaris x86, mostly for firewall use, they seem to like it. It seems to support pcmcia, so 2 nics and a older laptop and you have a portable firewall.
Slighty off topic, but the first sci-fi books I read, Stainless Steel Rat series. The character Slippery Jim diGriz traveled to other planets, and the main spoken language was Esperanto.
BTW, the series rated rather high, so if you like Sci-Fi, you might really like these books.
A young kid wants to be a famous thief, how do you do that in a computer, data driven society?
The claim that capitalism comes without a side of humanity is false.
Corruption has never been so blatantly corrupt since the the 1920s. While there are many good corporations out there, the large monopolistic companies have crippled a large section of our tech industry. The ripples have touched many companies I work with, and will cost everyone MILLIONS.
Hmm... yes. You are aware that the Ferengi were written as fictional characters to embody an absurdly extreme stereotype, right? Assigning the "Ferengi Rules of Acquisition" as capitalist values on their face is either disingenuous or ignorant.
You never sat in a board room during a merger, this is evident. I have never been in a multi-billion dollar merger, but the few dot.bombs I've seen made me sick. I was asked to leave the meetings when I asked about the employees, stocks and profits are the only value. The company I am at now actually wants employees to do community service, they even pay us for those days away from work... I've seen the extremes on both sides. The ferengi would fit right in.
There are millions of people who work in mundane jobs. Are they replaceable? Yes, Everyone is. But to make the point "How Replaceable everyone is" cheapens a persons life. Not everyone is going to be the next Einstein, but that doesn't mean a Mother who raises her children is any less important.
A lot of knee-jerk pseudo egalitarianism going on, too, but that's nothing new.
Nothing knee-jerk about it, total capitalism without a side of humanity will crumble just as pure socialism will. - Ferengi Rules of Acquisition - 109. Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack.
Could I tell you who filmed Casablanca? No. I am sure there where more than a couple actors, camera man and a director.
I really hate when people dont give credit to an entire team. Same thing happens at my job, Marketing and Engineering will get the credit, and the people in implementation and operations are left out. We put the servers/software into production, fixed all the bugs, redesigned it to work, and we dont get credit.
Just because a persons job isnt important to you, doesnt make it less important. Alot of snobbish, elitism going on lately in posts.
Never said collecting the data was in invasion of privacy, I said if they go looking for criminals in the data its an invasion of privacy. Law enforcement should be held at a higher standard when using data for criminal charges. Some states understand this, Texas for one.
Your argument is analogous to saying that convenience stores can't run security cameras because not everyone's a thief. It makes no sense. In fact, it makes everyone who's not a thief potentially more secure.
Pfft.
Its more like, If the store sold your shopping lists to insurnace companies, that you smoke, drink, and eat fatty foods, and then you loose your health insurance. Or maybe you bought, rope, ammo, duct tape, and a hunting knife, and they alert the police, there goes your camping trip. Or you that you bought a gays right newsletter, and they inform your work, and you get fired. - Do you DirectVNC?
Only if they suspect you of a crime, and then its only a one shot deal. If they followed you every day (as in the records of the tolls) its an invasion of privacy.
Well... I just posted about how my Apex 600 wont play some Disney DVDS (Stuart little) the other day.
Plus Someone replied about how the "Cd-noise" is rather common with the newer APEXs. The remotes/onscreen menus are quite horrible. (I own a newer apex ad-1100 also)
I bought a couple Apexs thinking it would be cool to play mp3s/vcd's in the living room. But really, I hardly ever do that, just DVDs. Burned twice with crappy quality, im sticking with name brand models now, most support vcd/svcd/mp3 and are of better quality. Plus my next dvd will have progressive scan. (And hopefully the ability to force skip over those damn commericals/fbi logos) - Do you DirectVNC.
Let me see if I can recap my video card history.
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Linux - ISA Trident card Amiga - (Paula, Fat Agnus and Denise - OCS) Win311 - PCI Trident Card (1 meg memory, yes!) Win95 - S3 Virge (de-cellerator, Came with OEMed Decent) Win98 - Nvidia TNT 8 megs (Diamond MM) Win98SE - Dual Voodoo2's and Nvidia TNT (DMM) Win98SE - Dual Voodoo2's and Nvidia TNT2 (DMM) Win98SE - Geforce 1 (DMM) Win2K - Geforce 256 (Asus) Win2K - Geforce 2MX (Asus) WinXP - Geforce 3 Ti500 (Asus)
Linux Box - PCI Trident (8 meg) Linux Box2 - S3 Savage AGP (16 meg)
I remember looking at video cards for some unix boxes, the 2 choices for a cheap card for a long time was Jaton branded pci cards(Trident chips) or Cirus video cards. I tried to go with jaton, the trident chips always had good opensource drivers. I still try to get trident videos card for linux boxes I build, but they are harder to find at local wholesale stores.
The only card I never used, which I heard had great linux support was any Matrox cards, the prices were just to high, and always slower than the others for games. - Do you DirectVNC?
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If you compare what you can buy currently.
$146 Athlon XP 2200
$543 Pentium 4 2.8GHz
The high end is quite expensive.
Stop comparing Intels high end cpu's, nobody buys those, they are 3x the price for a 5-10% performance hit. Unless, you like to spend money. (-;
AMD 2600+ won over the Intel 2.5 in Quake3 by 5% at lower resolutions, and Tied at 1600x1200. (Quake 3 allways shows Intel as faster, but only by 2-5%)
If you notice, half the programs tend to either favor Intel or AMD. The reason is.... The programs are compiled with either SSE2 or AMDnow+ which makes a good 10% performance improvement.
Guess what, if you use opensource software, you can compile with either! Even GCC3.2 is around 12-15% improvement when compiling for with AMD flags, and its very noticeable. Im sure SSE2 will give the same performance for Intel...
Check out toms SciSoft Sandra benchmarks, which takes a CPU, and uses it most optimial settings, and then rates the CPU.
CPU Bench = Winner AMD
MultiMedia = Winner AMD
Memory = Winner Intel
Tom likes to say, this doesnt represent true performance, but if you notice when he looks at Production/Media products with AMD optimizations, they are faster. Mp3 encoding, and 3D Rendering is faster on the AMD, WHEN they use AMD optimizations, or same rating Intel without Intel optimzations.
Its upto you, AMD gives the same performace for better price. And AMD has more affordable dual systems, which Intel dropped (big mistake, imho). If your a power user doing production/media work, a Dual AMD will be a very cost effective powerhouse. (Myself, I was dual Intels till AMD 2000+ rating, and I miss the dual cpu and the absent of pausing when multitasking, but the FPS in games is nice...)
Man, keep pumping those fast cpus/gfx cards out, I love it!
Speaking of resources, where is a good place to hang out and read/chat about perl? Which IRC network, Which Message Forum. Where do all the perl gurus hang? I hear people are dropping from usenet and going to message boards, so which ones?
Thanks!
Easy solution, Post naked pictures of CowBoy Neal, the slashdot crowd would all buy one, thats a million copies right there!
Hehe, seriously, I enjoyed the TPJ also, but i only play with perl, I dont do it for a living. I enjoyed the articles for the learning experience. In fact, I read the changelogs for gcc/perl/bsd/linux just to see what is "Really" going on, thats what I like about slashdot and freshmeat, to announce new releases.
Yes, good idea. Next time you want to murder someone, cut his land line, jam is cell phone. That's some good technology there. Also nice that you cant control the range, so the alley next to the movie theater, you cant call 911. when you are being mugged or having a heart attack, you can just thank the friendly cell phone jammer.
WTF is this a War on idiots? Fuck, im tired of people passing laws because a small portion of the public are morons. Warning stickers, Law suits, safety devices, all to combat the morons. "Don't use hairdryer in shower", people who need to be pruned off from the population.
Let me bet, its politically incorrect to talk about people with low iq's, but we can pass laws to stop them.. Humm, small flaw, THEY ARE IDIOTS!
Why don't we just start a new class in school, Living within the law. So by the time they are in the 6th grade, they can know all the laws it takes to live and work in the USA. We can start with mandatory registering with the government (for males only), Hours you can travel and locations off limits, What food and beverages and what areas they can consume them in, Proper media and the allotted hours of viewing, Travel permits, Taxes, fines, and other government fees, Electronic device usage laws, Appropriate contact with other human beings, Appropriate communication, and Proper thoughts.
btw, I have 4 kids in school, guess how many "notice to parents" or just "Friendly Suggestions" I get about these subjects in public schools?
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McCabe's Law: Nobody _has_ to do _anything_.
Looking at Toms Hardware chart, Rating a AMD 2400+ vs a Intel 2.4ghz, the AMD is faster in almost all benchmarks. Tom messed up when he compared a 2100+ vs a 2400. AMD's system shows that its processor is faster at its rating level than Intel ghz rating . Even Toms Benchmarks show this.
:)
Thou, I do like the number of benchmarks Tom uses, lame, quake, scisoft sandra, pcmark, sysmark, specview, (I wish he would use madonion also).. But trying not to repeat a few posts, when an application is compiled towards the cpu, it will be faster. Look at Flaskmpg, AMD compiled version showed an incredible speed up. Same with GCC 3.2 (check the changes), they said an average of 8.7 (with 2.6 or something from 2.95) so thats around a 11+ percent increase, Average! 3DNOW or SSE2 Optimzation really makes a big difference on bechmarks, programs should support both.
Cant wait to see what happens when AMD starts its 3000+ chips, and the 64bit hammer comes out.
Any lawyers know, Can we counter SUE with the telcos, for trying to censor the Inet access I pay for? Get a couple million people to sign up. Hell, lets find some small town, where the Judge is a card carrying EFF member. :)
If its all legal battles, why cant we fight back? Why are we so powerless? Why cant we win?
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I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. - J. Edgar Hoover
Strange. Lets take a little look at the this website/server.
x t/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/pn g,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1
A ccept-Language: en-us, en;q=0.50
/. junk filter bites.
Proxomitron
GET http://www.listen4ever.com/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.listen4ever.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; I USE MOZILLA, Support Mozilla www.mozilla.org)
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,te
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
+++RESP 112+++
HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 04:25:24 GMT
Location: http://www.mp3mediaworld.com
Content-Length: 149
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDGQGQQVBY=HNHJFELBEKKDNLLOJBCNPHHP; path=/
X-Cache: MISS from sexy
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
+++CLOSE 112+++
Lynx
[iw@sexy] ~ >lynx -noredir -dump -source http://www.listen4ever.com/
snip
This object may be found @ HREF="http://www.mp3mediaworld.com"
nmap
Interesting ports on (61.136.61.40):
(The 1542 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port State Service
21 ftp
25 smtp
80 http
85 mit-ml-dev
135 loc-srv
139 netbios-ssn
1021 unknown
1025 listen
1030 iad1
1433 ms-sql-s
3389 msrdp
6666 irc-serv
Port 6666, looks like some gnutella clone or something..
-> repeats this line "f:\songlib/-NeAmL/IN/s/w1r`O"
I think this is a persons workstation, so they are redirecting to save bandwidth. (IMHO)
BTW,
Sunblade is sparc linux, so no wine/vmware.
:( But there is a solaris version, im hoping to get. :)
I would love if everyone used HTML with pdfs for the diagrams, but vendors like to charge you 10K for a cd that only works with thier viewers. (If you pay millions for hardware, whats 10K for a document cd?!)
The java programs seems to built for the windows platform, so it wont run under linux.
Xfree is cool, but I couldnt use my high end gfx cards with sparc linux, had to use the onboard m64s. ICK! SUN wont write linux drivers for some hardware, ya ya, why use linux when you can use Solaris. Have you even Tried Linux on Sparc? Awesome..
I'm Gonna stick with WinXP as my desktop, everything works great, cut&paste, cleartype makes it easy to read, very stable. What funcationality I miss, I just ssh into my unix box (smb mounted file dirs) and it fills the voids in windows. Using the best of both to get my work done. I tried to go Linux fulltime with VMware, but on the slow laptops work gives you, I need every eek of speed I can get. So if Im in VMWARE running windows most of the time, Might as well just use windows, and get back the speed. We have few guys using Vmware over Linux or FreeBSD, but it is slower, and they drop back to Win98se for speed. (I like WinXP over 98)
Maybe if I had a 2ghz, 1 gig ram, GF4 PC, I would be extremely happy. OH wait, we are trying to SAVE money. Damn.
Theres alot of operational software that is "Windows" only, even if the back end servers are unix based. I work for a wireless telco, so I will list all my software I use on a daily basis.
1. M$ Visio for all network diagrams.
2. M$ Project (Gotta read those due dates from project managers)
3. M$ Office - Most everything else.
4. Adobe PDFs
5. Putty - (Uses 850K of memory per instance compared to 22megs for SecureCRT, with multiple open, my pc is still usable!)
6. Mozilla - Little bit of a memory hog, but Its my favorite, skinned with orbital skin.
7. IE (Eroom, My god, support Mozilla damn it..)
8. Password safe (for my million passwords that change often)
9. Proxomitron (mostly for the proxy selector, big networks, dmz = lots o proxies)
10. Remedy Trouble Ticketing system. (Very nice product for trouble tickets, reports, etc.)
11. Helmsman for Nortel Documents.
12. Ned for Nokia docs.
13. Ericsson docs., still trying to get that program working. Looks like a dos program...
14. xwin32 (still downloading every 30 days, soon as that damn PO gets completed, I'll have my license... Everyone else uses the site licensed ReflectionsX)
15. Climax (cool name, lets me work on multple SGSNs at once. Written in java for windows.)
16. Winamp. (gotta have tunes, Digital-Imported Techno! Aqua Skin)
17. Trillian (Everybody has a different IM, and I only need 1, makes it easy to IM someone on a phone call for info..)
18. AT&T Global Dialer (Must say, for a modem connection, I dont get disconnected as much as my Earthlink account...)
19 Nortel VPN (for winxp and smp support)
20. Winzip 8.1 (Its even registered by our company!)
21. PocketPC software from M$ with gprs/cdpd modems.
I have a Sunblade (w/linux) next to me, but its mostly a gateway X box. I use screen alot, so I can disconnect, and let tasks run.
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All comments are my own, not of my employeer...
I use proxomitron to filter out version checking java scripts, so mozilla can load those "IE ONLY" websites...
Proxomitron has to be the best program for http ever, re-write html on the fly and an optional proxy selector (I have 5 proxies at work) makes things soooo easy.
Actually a friend of mine works for M$ Support, and hes not allowed to tell the customer to reinstall the OS. He has to fix the problem with registry edits, dll's, or re-install the application.
I was always joking about the "Re-install" M$ support line also.
The IT7-MAX2 can therefore handle eight conventional IDE devices, as well as two serial ATA devices.
10 IDE devices. This is what I want to see with serial ata, is more devices. 4 IDE isnt enough, at least with newer motherboards with built in raid/fast ata, you get 8, but if you want 1 per channel for the best possible speed it limits it to 4.
Currently, I have 2 IDEs one on each fast ata on the mobo, and I get about 47 peak, and 34Meg sustained with IDE. Be nice when the 2 device on a channel is killed off.
I worked for a company that had quad 486 SCO boxes, rather good boxes for a couple hundred people doing customer tracking and parts ordering, each with 3-4 telnet sessions per person. This is when I learned about Merge that allowed our Admins to run SCO/Win311 boxes. (Ok, it was a long time ago!)
I know a few people who run Solaris x86, mostly for firewall use, they seem to like it. It seems to support pcmcia, so 2 nics and a older laptop and you have a portable firewall.
Slighty off topic, but the first sci-fi books I read, Stainless Steel Rat series. The character Slippery Jim diGriz traveled to other planets, and the main spoken language was Esperanto.
BTW, the series rated rather high, so if you like Sci-Fi, you might really like these books.
A young kid wants to be a famous thief, how do you do that in a computer, data driven society?
Google is ahead of the game with the Hax0r Google version of its search engine.
The claim that capitalism comes without a side of humanity is false.
Corruption has never been so blatantly corrupt since the the 1920s. While there are many good corporations out there, the large monopolistic companies have crippled a large section of our tech industry. The ripples have touched many companies I work with, and will cost everyone MILLIONS.
Hmm... yes. You are aware that the Ferengi were written as fictional characters to embody an absurdly extreme stereotype, right? Assigning the "Ferengi Rules of Acquisition" as capitalist values on their face is either disingenuous or ignorant.
You never sat in a board room during a merger, this is evident.
I have never been in a multi-billion dollar merger, but the few dot.bombs I've seen made me sick. I was asked to leave the meetings when I asked about the employees, stocks and profits are the only value. The company I am at now actually wants employees to do community service, they even pay us for those days away from work... I've seen the extremes on both sides. The ferengi would fit right in.
Now STFU.
There are millions of people who work in mundane jobs. Are they replaceable? Yes, Everyone is. But to make the point "How Replaceable everyone is" cheapens a persons life. Not everyone is going to be the next Einstein, but that doesn't mean a Mother who raises her children is any less important.
A lot of knee-jerk pseudo egalitarianism going on, too, but that's nothing new.
Nothing knee-jerk about it, total capitalism without a side of humanity will crumble just as pure socialism will.
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Ferengi Rules of Acquisition - 109. Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack.
Unsung Heros...
Could I tell you who filmed Casablanca? No. I am sure there where more than a couple actors, camera man and a director.
I really hate when people dont give credit to an entire team. Same thing happens at my job, Marketing and Engineering will get the credit, and the people in implementation and operations are left out. We put the servers/software into production, fixed all the bugs, redesigned it to work, and we dont get credit.
Just because a persons job isnt important to you, doesnt make it less important. Alot of snobbish, elitism going on lately in posts.
Those metal phones sure cleaned easily, and the cloth wrapped cords sure looked nice. I hate these plastic phones, they look cheap and feel cheap.
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Hehe, I remember the old slogan "German Engineering" and I think of those old phones that work forever. Even thou they are american made.
Better have a chrisma (3D6) +18 for a task like that.
Never said collecting the data was in invasion of privacy, I said if they go looking for criminals in the data its an invasion of privacy. Law enforcement should be held at a higher standard when using data for criminal charges. Some states understand this, Texas for one.
Your argument is analogous to saying that convenience stores can't run security cameras because not everyone's a thief. It makes no sense. In fact, it makes everyone who's not a thief potentially more secure.
Pfft.
Its more like, If the store sold your shopping lists to insurnace companies, that you smoke, drink, and eat fatty foods, and then you loose your health insurance. Or maybe you bought, rope, ammo, duct tape, and a hunting knife, and they alert the police, there goes your camping trip. Or you that you bought a gays right newsletter, and they inform your work, and you get fired.
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Do you DirectVNC?
Only if they suspect you of a crime, and then its only a one shot deal. If they followed you every day (as in the records of the tolls) its an invasion of privacy.
Well... I just posted about how my Apex 600 wont play some Disney DVDS (Stuart little) the other day.
Plus Someone replied about how the "Cd-noise" is rather common with the newer APEXs. The remotes/onscreen menus are quite horrible. (I own a newer apex ad-1100 also)
I bought a couple Apexs thinking it would be cool to play mp3s/vcd's in the living room. But really, I hardly ever do that, just DVDs. Burned twice with crappy quality, im sticking with name brand models now, most support vcd/svcd/mp3 and are of better quality. Plus my next dvd will have progressive scan. (And hopefully the ability to force skip over those damn commericals/fbi logos)
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Do you DirectVNC.
Linux - ISA Trident card
Amiga - (Paula, Fat Agnus and Denise - OCS)
Win311 - PCI Trident Card (1 meg memory, yes!)
Win95 - S3 Virge (de-cellerator, Came with OEMed Decent)
Win98 - Nvidia TNT 8 megs (Diamond MM)
Win98SE - Dual Voodoo2's and Nvidia TNT (DMM)
Win98SE - Dual Voodoo2's and Nvidia TNT2 (DMM)
Win98SE - Geforce 1 (DMM)
Win2K - Geforce 256 (Asus)
Win2K - Geforce 2MX (Asus)
WinXP - Geforce 3 Ti500 (Asus)
Linux Box - PCI Trident (8 meg)
Linux Box2 - S3 Savage AGP (16 meg)
I remember looking at video cards for some unix boxes, the 2 choices for a cheap card for a long time was Jaton branded pci cards(Trident chips) or Cirus video cards. I tried to go with jaton, the trident chips always had good opensource drivers. I still try to get trident videos card for linux boxes I build, but they are harder to find at local wholesale stores.
The only card I never used, which I heard had great linux support was any Matrox cards, the prices were just to high, and always slower than the others for games.
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Do you DirectVNC?