Currently living in Ireland (but I'm not Irish). When I first heard about Eircom's router's key being based on the SSID I almost died of laughing. Good thing for me though, means free wireless almost anywhere I go. I use NTL (UPC Chello) myself, and the guy who set it up for us even activated WPA on the router, I was surprised. They don't throttle the traffic either.
I hope NTL doesn't agree to this... but, AFAIK they might rent the tubes from Eircom which means NTL traffic is monitored aswell.
I have heard claims that people has been running Prime95 (stress test) on all cores for 24 hours, and still had problems while playing a game for example. Often it's because the PSU can't keep up, not many people stress test CPU and GPU at once, which is essential to make sure that the PSU isn't holding you back.
You make it sound like OC is extremely difficult and not reliable. I'm willing to agree with you to some extent, but it's like everything; you have to know your stuff. If you know how to do it, or want to spend the hours learning, it could save you a couple of hundred bucks. I remember running my 1700+ tbred (1.4) at 2.4Ghz solid with watercooling. Those were the days...
Who modded parent as interesting? It's self evident that an extremely overclocked chip isn't reliable, and reliability has nothing to do with this record attempt.
Good stuff: it's the first AMD chip to not have a cold bug (afaik), it overclocks very well on air (3.5GHz on stock voltage - not bad) compared to its predecessors. It's an alternative to Core2Quad now, depending on what applications you are running. Core i7? Faster, very much so, but the mainboard and DDR3 are gonna cost you.
The most bang for the buck seems to be the cheapest Core i7 today anyway.
By now you should have all concerts and mtv videos in 1080p, ready to be remotely played on your 50" tv and at the same time, seeded by torrent.
Then someone would nuke your release because one of the videos isn't really in 4.1 and on the propper, he'd include the cracked guitar hero game and 50 ebooks of pretty little poems about Ulrich; 49 of which would be haiku.
In the real world benchmark, the only place where it shines is during file copy operations. It's on par with Intel's SSD when measuring OS load time, game level load times and other application benchmarks.
The battery only hold 16GB for 4 hours too, you'll need that CF card to backup to (which is a neat feature, just the press of a button to backup and restore).
Any way, I'd gladly take it for free.
As of right now the Phenoms are a good deal IF you already own an AM2+ mobo... otherwise they are not a good deal for 2 reasons: 1. AMD is coming out with the incompatible AM3 socket that will use DDR3 memory in the next few months, so these current chips will have a very short shelf life;
You can buy a Phenom II now and use it with an AM2 (BIOS update req.) or AM2+ motherboard. When AM3 comes, so does the Phenom II with DDR3 support (and HT3 support!). Time will well if the upgrade is worth it, I doubt it will be as big as the difference between Phenom I and II.
In other words, might as well buy one now. AM3 is slated for Q3 this year anyway. On the other hand, rumours says Intel will drop the price, then C2Q is more bang for the buck than this AMD CPU.
There's no such thing as "HDTV lag" or input lag on a good HDTV. I've used NES, SNES and a 360 on my 32" LCD (720p), no input lag what so ever.
Stick to the good stuff, as always.
Performance? We're talking downloading files here, not running benchmarks or some shit like that. At 1MiB/s, wine+utorrent uses roughly 3% CPU on my machine, which is nothing. Stability? It hasn't crashed so far in the 1+ year I've used it. Shiny progress bars? No, I've disabled them. I only see "% complete", no progress bar, among my torrents.
The GUI is well done, it lets me do what I want and do it fast. I don't have to look for anything, buttons (if I'd use them) are in the right places. Actually I rarely press any buttons, utorrent autoopens any torrent I click on in the webbrowser and shows me a list of files in the torrent, all preselected. Then select files if you don't want them all, and any speed caps etc, press ok.
Of course you could disable the box that shows up, if you're not into that sort of thing.
IMO when just browsing the web, clicking around, I'd hate to put both hands on the keyboard just to type something in, or enter a key shortcut, when I could just move the mouse pointer somewhere and click a button. Seamless.
But hey, maybe you don't use a DE, maybe you use a tiling WM with 2423423 xterms up, coding stuff. Then utorrent would stand out I guess.
It seems rtorrent is run in a terminal? I do actually have a display adapter, so I might as well use it. No thanks, I'll stick to deluge/transmission occasionally or utorrent for hardcore stuff.
Then why not force NVIDIA to evolve with Open Source by deprecating the pieces that you/we want to get rid of. I guess ATI would adapt more quickly if not right away, because of their openness. The same with VIA and Intel. NVIDIA would start seeing people buying ATI cards instead for their Linux boxes. (this might've started already though, with the 8000 series and above 2D fiasco)
We use sametime at my company, and it's piece of shit. When it works, it works. Often when someone types something in a chat and I click the minimized sametime window to reply, try to write something in the message box, and sametime freezes. Lots of hdd access of no apparent reason. We experience the same on all our machines (2GB RAM). Don't get me started on Notes 8...
My Dell Inspiron came with a Broadcom mini pci-e NIC, didn't work unless I used ndiswrapper. I swapped it for an Intel 4965, and it works much better. Good range, good support (2.6.24 supports it, 2.6.27 supports it even better (packet injection, LED working etc etc). So, ever since 8.04 my wlan has worked like a charm.
Strangely, when I run geekbench (32-bit) I get:
Overall Geekbench Score: 3197 ||||||||||||
Submitting results; this might take a minute or two.
Submission failed! Couldn't connect to host.
This on a T8300 cpu, 4GB 667 ram.
Could someone explain in simple terms what net neutrality is? I mean, if you don't have net neutrality, is it the same as censorship?
Or does it mean that no one should be able to control the internet in the way of shutting down/messing with vital parts?
How much of the code is from Linus himself nowadays? I thought he mostly reviewed/rejected patches, and occasionally, once every to or so years, accepted a patch or two.;-)
I don't know about that - I've got a Dell Inspiron 1520 with a NVIDIA 8600M GT, running Vista 64-bit. In the 6 months I've had the laptop, I've had one BSOD, IIRC it wasn't gfx related. Even getting tv-out to work is non-trivial with the NVIDIA drivers. I'm even using the latest beta drivers targeted for desktop PCs, just with a modded.inf file. One good thing about 64-bit Vista is that the drivers has to be signed by MS, otherwise you can't install them. Should (in theory) result in a more stable OS due to less buggy (more tested?) drivers...
Great informative and honest interview. I sure hope we get DLC (downloadable content) for the Wii... I'm gonna skip Rock Band 1 and wait for the 2nd. If we get DLC for the Wii, I'm getting it. If not, I'm selling the Wii and buying a 360.
No, I have not bought it. One of the reasons is the price. The other is the upcoming game Guitar Hero World tour, supposed to be better than Rock Band (cymbals on the drums for example).
For example, the game Rock Band for Xbox 360. It costs USD 150 (~ euro 95) in USA (on Amazon.com) and SEK 1990 in Sweden (euro 211 or USD 332).
It's more than double the price!!! Did we get anything extra? NO! Oh yes, sorry, we had to WAIT more than 6 _months_ for a European release, which didn't bring anything new/better compared to the American version. FU EA!
I guess the syadmins could put in an option in a configuration file somewhere on what files to "keep untouched" when doing package upgrades, no? So that the configuration file wouldn't be overwritten. I think I've seen something similar in Debian distros. Anyway when I install a new (custom) kernel in Ubuntu for example, synaptic asks me if I want to overwrite GRUB's menu.lst with the newly generated one, view the differences or keep my old one etc. Surely there's something similar in Redhat?
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Currently living in Ireland (but I'm not Irish). When I first heard about Eircom's router's key being based on the SSID I almost died of laughing. Good thing for me though, means free wireless almost anywhere I go. I use NTL (UPC Chello) myself, and the guy who set it up for us even activated WPA on the router, I was surprised. They don't throttle the traffic either. I hope NTL doesn't agree to this... but, AFAIK they might rent the tubes from Eircom which means NTL traffic is monitored aswell.
I have heard claims that people has been running Prime95 (stress test) on all cores for 24 hours, and still had problems while playing a game for example. Often it's because the PSU can't keep up, not many people stress test CPU and GPU at once, which is essential to make sure that the PSU isn't holding you back. You make it sound like OC is extremely difficult and not reliable. I'm willing to agree with you to some extent, but it's like everything; you have to know your stuff. If you know how to do it, or want to spend the hours learning, it could save you a couple of hundred bucks. I remember running my 1700+ tbred (1.4) at 2.4Ghz solid with watercooling. Those were the days...
Who modded parent as interesting? It's self evident that an extremely overclocked chip isn't reliable, and reliability has nothing to do with this record attempt. Good stuff: it's the first AMD chip to not have a cold bug (afaik), it overclocks very well on air (3.5GHz on stock voltage - not bad) compared to its predecessors. It's an alternative to Core2Quad now, depending on what applications you are running. Core i7? Faster, very much so, but the mainboard and DDR3 are gonna cost you. The most bang for the buck seems to be the cheapest Core i7 today anyway.
my Metallica mp3's are all pirated.
pirated mp3? That's so last decade...
By now you should have all concerts and mtv videos in 1080p, ready to be remotely played on your 50" tv and at the same time, seeded by torrent.
Then someone would nuke your release because one of the videos isn't really in 4.1 and on the propper, he'd include the cracked guitar hero game and 50 ebooks of pretty little poems about Ulrich; 49 of which would be haiku.
In the real world benchmark, the only place where it shines is during file copy operations. It's on par with Intel's SSD when measuring OS load time, game level load times and other application benchmarks. The battery only hold 16GB for 4 hours too, you'll need that CF card to backup to (which is a neat feature, just the press of a button to backup and restore). Any way, I'd gladly take it for free.
As of right now the Phenoms are a good deal IF you already own an AM2+ mobo... otherwise they are not a good deal for 2 reasons: 1. AMD is coming out with the incompatible AM3 socket that will use DDR3 memory in the next few months, so these current chips will have a very short shelf life;
You can buy a Phenom II now and use it with an AM2 (BIOS update req.) or AM2+ motherboard. When AM3 comes, so does the Phenom II with DDR3 support (and HT3 support!). Time will well if the upgrade is worth it, I doubt it will be as big as the difference between Phenom I and II. In other words, might as well buy one now. AM3 is slated for Q3 this year anyway. On the other hand, rumours says Intel will drop the price, then C2Q is more bang for the buck than this AMD CPU.
There's no such thing as "HDTV lag" or input lag on a good HDTV. I've used NES, SNES and a 360 on my 32" LCD (720p), no input lag what so ever. Stick to the good stuff, as always.
Go fuck yourself.
Well sure. But I don't usually have terminals open. Hence point and click operation.
I only have one computer. If I had a fileserver, rtorrent would be running on it. But I don't. ;-)
Performance? We're talking downloading files here, not running benchmarks or some shit like that. At 1MiB/s, wine+utorrent uses roughly 3% CPU on my machine, which is nothing. Stability? It hasn't crashed so far in the 1+ year I've used it. Shiny progress bars? No, I've disabled them. I only see "% complete", no progress bar, among my torrents. The GUI is well done, it lets me do what I want and do it fast. I don't have to look for anything, buttons (if I'd use them) are in the right places. Actually I rarely press any buttons, utorrent autoopens any torrent I click on in the webbrowser and shows me a list of files in the torrent, all preselected. Then select files if you don't want them all, and any speed caps etc, press ok. Of course you could disable the box that shows up, if you're not into that sort of thing. IMO when just browsing the web, clicking around, I'd hate to put both hands on the keyboard just to type something in, or enter a key shortcut, when I could just move the mouse pointer somewhere and click a button. Seamless. But hey, maybe you don't use a DE, maybe you use a tiling WM with 2423423 xterms up, coding stuff. Then utorrent would stand out I guess.
It seems rtorrent is run in a terminal? I do actually have a display adapter, so I might as well use it. No thanks, I'll stick to deluge/transmission occasionally or utorrent for hardcore stuff.
utorrent also works perfectly under wine, might give it some memory overhead though. But is there really a better torrent client?
Then why not force NVIDIA to evolve with Open Source by deprecating the pieces that you/we want to get rid of. I guess ATI would adapt more quickly if not right away, because of their openness. The same with VIA and Intel. NVIDIA would start seeing people buying ATI cards instead for their Linux boxes. (this might've started already though, with the 8000 series and above 2D fiasco)
We use sametime at my company, and it's piece of shit. When it works, it works. Often when someone types something in a chat and I click the minimized sametime window to reply, try to write something in the message box, and sametime freezes. Lots of hdd access of no apparent reason. We experience the same on all our machines (2GB RAM). Don't get me started on Notes 8...
My Dell Inspiron came with a Broadcom mini pci-e NIC, didn't work unless I used ndiswrapper. I swapped it for an Intel 4965, and it works much better. Good range, good support (2.6.24 supports it, 2.6.27 supports it even better (packet injection, LED working etc etc). So, ever since 8.04 my wlan has worked like a charm. Strangely, when I run geekbench (32-bit) I get: Overall Geekbench Score: 3197 |||||||||||| Submitting results; this might take a minute or two. Submission failed! Couldn't connect to host. This on a T8300 cpu, 4GB 667 ram.
Could someone explain in simple terms what net neutrality is? I mean, if you don't have net neutrality, is it the same as censorship? Or does it mean that no one should be able to control the internet in the way of shutting down/messing with vital parts?
How much of the code is from Linus himself nowadays? I thought he mostly reviewed/rejected patches, and occasionally, once every to or so years, accepted a patch or two. ;-)
Then again WinRAR has no purpose. 7zip ( http://www.7-zip.org/ ) is superior and free, actually even Open Source.
I don't know about that - I've got a Dell Inspiron 1520 with a NVIDIA 8600M GT, running Vista 64-bit. In the 6 months I've had the laptop, I've had one BSOD, IIRC it wasn't gfx related. Even getting tv-out to work is non-trivial with the NVIDIA drivers. I'm even using the latest beta drivers targeted for desktop PCs, just with a modded .inf file. One good thing about 64-bit Vista is that the drivers has to be signed by MS, otherwise you can't install them. Should (in theory) result in a more stable OS due to less buggy (more tested?) drivers...
Wow, this is great! Where can I get this? Looks like it's entirely passive as well. SSD/Flash... FTW! This could replace any non gamer's computer. ;-)
Great informative and honest interview. I sure hope we get DLC (downloadable content) for the Wii... I'm gonna skip Rock Band 1 and wait for the 2nd. If we get DLC for the Wii, I'm getting it. If not, I'm selling the Wii and buying a 360.
No, I have not bought it. One of the reasons is the price. The other is the upcoming game Guitar Hero World tour, supposed to be better than Rock Band (cymbals on the drums for example).
For example, the game Rock Band for Xbox 360. It costs USD 150 (~ euro 95) in USA (on Amazon.com) and SEK 1990 in Sweden (euro 211 or USD 332). It's more than double the price!!! Did we get anything extra? NO! Oh yes, sorry, we had to WAIT more than 6 _months_ for a European release, which didn't bring anything new/better compared to the American version. FU EA!
I guess the syadmins could put in an option in a configuration file somewhere on what files to "keep untouched" when doing package upgrades, no? So that the configuration file wouldn't be overwritten. I think I've seen something similar in Debian distros. Anyway when I install a new (custom) kernel in Ubuntu for example, synaptic asks me if I want to overwrite GRUB's menu.lst with the newly generated one, view the differences or keep my old one etc. Surely there's something similar in Redhat?