Ditto on Linux. I hate booting my lappy into Windows, where I lose multi-finger ability due to "hardware limitations" even though it works fine under Linux!
I, uh, am typing this on a computer based on a 6 year old MSI board. My last PC was built on an MSI board, which I kept around for 2 years before putting it in the closet as a fileserver. I've got an MSI in the livingroom running my media center, it's 5 years old now. System I'm building next week? MSI.
My father-in-law swears by Asus. He also buys a new board every other year, for each of his systems. He gives me the old, dead ones, which I confirm as dead then store away for 6 months, try again and they work. They might not die but they sure do hibernate. That's not good for a daily-use or constant-on system.
MSI has yet to let me down. Period.
Asus scares the fuck out of me. I'd never trust them with my data or my business.
Both are HP. I thought I made that clear in my original post. I should also state that the CPU is less than 2x as fast as the older laptop when running on battery (it scales back to 800Mhz) and I have the backlight set to drop to 40% when running on battery. Wireless is configured to drop from 54mbps to 24mbps and halve its transmit power when running on battery.
The 10 year old laptop does none of this, everything runs at full power, full brightness, full speed, all the time.
I also have a battery with twice the volume and a chemistry with 4x the energy density of the old laptop's battery. Not to mention that this battery is much newer and in better overall condition. I have 8x the battery capacity and ~3x the CPU power (1600Mhz vs 475Mhz). Factor in the fact that the older laptop has an internal floppy drive as well as DVD drive, where the newer laptop lacks the floppy drive, a hard disk that draws 5 watts more than the one in the newer laptop. I should be seeing nearly thrice the battery life by your logic.
You made the assumption that I had a 4750Mhz CPU, the same peripherals, the same size battery with the same battery chemistry and that similar peripherals use the same amount of power. You also failed to account for power management systems that are present in current laptops, which did not exist 10 years ago. Yet another thing you failed to account for is the supposed increase in efficiency (and decrease in overall power consumption) claimed by PC manufacturers, especially with regard to laptops. You even forgot to account for the age of the battery; 10 years vs. a week-old warranty replacement of a less-than-nine-month-old battery.
I have a battery with 8x the capacity in a system with less hardware and a supposedly more efficient CPU which is only about 3x faster, components which claim lower power consumption and over all better power management than my 10 year old laptop from the same manufacturer. Why am I seeing 1/3 the battery life of the old system rather than the 3x increase logic and mathematics tell me I should be seeing?
My 10 year old HP laptop gets 5hr 45min on a freshly charged battery. The one I'm sitting at right now barely gets 2hr. It's about time they get back to where they were.
I, uh, didn't get the karma I have by, uh, trolling. Please, uh, read the, uh, whole post before you, uh, moderate. Thanks.
It's a sad truth that, in the United States of America, there are people out there who truly fear the availability of highly accurate GPS navigation data to the general public because that data may fall into the hands of terrorists who, in some people's minds, would otherwise be unable to find their targets.
Past that, if such a GPS project became known to me, I may well feel the urge to pick up a GPS and start helping out with said project.
A valid observation about the state of a nation, a valid point about the existence of a project and a valid stance on cooperation with a similar future project. Someone's gonna get their ass handed to them in meta-moderation.
Only turrurists would have a use for maps, to locate large masses of population to attack. Are you a turrurist? Are you planning to fly a plane into my home? I don't want you havin' no access to no accurate maps.
Sadly, that's precisely the motivation for such a project to NOT exist. We, as a country, have not lost, but the majority, afraid of terrorism to the point of giving up freedoms and rights that just make sense to hold on to, has lost. Sometimes it's hard to be on the winning side.
Swinging back on topic here, I would love to see such a project come into existence. It might just convince me to buy a GPS and contribute something more useful than the drivel I get modded up for on Slashdot.
Ahh, I see! They're going to require a top-end GPU so they can emulate an older GPU on that. That way, everyone sees the game exactly the same, regardless of their hardware. They would need full specs for that, I suppose.
You deprived a paying customer, who could have received that service, of the service which you did not pay for. You deprived the person providing the service of the ability to make money from that service during the time they were servicing you. Yes, I would say that is theft. More so, even, than stealing a CD, where you are only preventing the owner of the CD from using it.
It's at the bottom, where it should be, so you read all the comments in the thread before posting one of your own, thereby reducing the likelihood of redundant comments.
Of course, there is still the possibility of posting a comment similar to one which was posted after your copy of the page loaded. Hey, it happens.
Also, seemingly redundant comments on separate branches of a thread are not redundant. They're in response to entirely different comments.
Comments which restate their grandparent in response to a parent who obviously didn't get the point are not redundant. They're trying to clear up the issue for others who may not have understood what their grandparent was stating.
You're right. You can leave. You can also post articles supporting your views. If enough people are posting those articles and enough people are voting them up in Firehose, eventually, they'll make it on the site.
Slashdot is becoming more and more community driven, in case you haven't noticed. That means more and more of what actually makes it on the site is going to be geared toward what the majority of readers are interested in on any given day. It just so happens that, right now, one of the leading topics is politics and the majority of readers appear to disagree with you.
You can pick up your blocks and go home, you can complain like you're doing, or you can contribute. I'm fairly certain the majority of us would prefer to see you contribute, even if that means voicing an unpopular (yet still valid) opinion; after all, that's what fuels discussion and debate.
I don't have to admin it. I'm simply a user. Thank you, though. I'm sure you'd have even more sympathy for me, were I to tell you where I work (I'm not going to).
I'm not in control of the decision. I'd simply be a user.
To that end, I should detail the tasks carried out by the machines in question.
They SSH in to one of the HP-UX servers and run some CLI apps (via a text-based menu system). They browse the corporate intranet, with limited access to supplier websites, and run flash-based training apps. They run custom ordering software, which is written and maintained in-house.
That's it, and the majority of daily use is SSH. The several hundred thousand users of these systems are already as trained as they would need to be in the event of such a switch. All back-end infrastructure is already running on a UNIX platform (HP-UX) and we all interact directly with it on a daily basis.
Even the ordering apps which currently run on the desktop are being slowly migrated to web apps, accessed via the intranet. If RedHat can't do that, I have no clue how I've been running an entire PR and marketing firm on Kubuntu and CentOS.
I work for a company that has over 80,000 windows desktops and over 6,000 HP-UX servers spread across over 2,000 locations. There has been a lot of very serious talk of replacing the old XP desktops with RedHat in 2010, keeping HP-UX on the servers until the support contract is up in 2013, then running RedHat there, as well. At least two locations are running RedHat servers on the racks right next to the HP-UX boxes for testing purposes. That's about all I have to say on the issue.
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Ditto on Linux. I hate booting my lappy into Windows, where I lose multi-finger ability due to "hardware limitations" even though it works fine under Linux!
I, uh, am typing this on a computer based on a 6 year old MSI board. My last PC was built on an MSI board, which I kept around for 2 years before putting it in the closet as a fileserver. I've got an MSI in the livingroom running my media center, it's 5 years old now. System I'm building next week? MSI.
My father-in-law swears by Asus. He also buys a new board every other year, for each of his systems. He gives me the old, dead ones, which I confirm as dead then store away for 6 months, try again and they work. They might not die but they sure do hibernate. That's not good for a daily-use or constant-on system.
MSI has yet to let me down. Period.
Asus scares the fuck out of me. I'd never trust them with my data or my business.
Frank Shoemaker would call it noise because that's what it is.
Just my guess. We'll never know if I'm right, unless the author says so, because people will keep trying to crack it!
Slashdot-reading paying clients, at that. I'll be discussing the option of switching providers with management after reading this thread.
You hit the nail on the head.
Eee PCs are laptops and, thus, not included in the server/desktop number.
Who said anything about quad-core?
Both are HP. I thought I made that clear in my original post. I should also state that the CPU is less than 2x as fast as the older laptop when running on battery (it scales back to 800Mhz) and I have the backlight set to drop to 40% when running on battery. Wireless is configured to drop from 54mbps to 24mbps and halve its transmit power when running on battery.
The 10 year old laptop does none of this, everything runs at full power, full brightness, full speed, all the time.
I also have a battery with twice the volume and a chemistry with 4x the energy density of the old laptop's battery. Not to mention that this battery is much newer and in better overall condition. I have 8x the battery capacity and ~3x the CPU power (1600Mhz vs 475Mhz). Factor in the fact that the older laptop has an internal floppy drive as well as DVD drive, where the newer laptop lacks the floppy drive, a hard disk that draws 5 watts more than the one in the newer laptop. I should be seeing nearly thrice the battery life by your logic.
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You made the assumption that I had a 4750Mhz CPU, the same peripherals, the same size battery with the same battery chemistry and that similar peripherals use the same amount of power. You also failed to account for power management systems that are present in current laptops, which did not exist 10 years ago. Yet another thing you failed to account for is the supposed increase in efficiency (and decrease in overall power consumption) claimed by PC manufacturers, especially with regard to laptops. You even forgot to account for the age of the battery; 10 years vs. a week-old warranty replacement of a less-than-nine-month-old battery.
I have a battery with 8x the capacity in a system with less hardware and a supposedly more efficient CPU which is only about 3x faster, components which claim lower power consumption and over all better power management than my 10 year old laptop from the same manufacturer. Why am I seeing 1/3 the battery life of the old system rather than the 3x increase logic and mathematics tell me I should be seeing?
Someone, somewhere, is lying and it's not me.
Oh, and... first post!
My 10 year old HP laptop gets 5hr 45min on a freshly charged battery. The one I'm sitting at right now barely gets 2hr. It's about time they get back to where they were.
I, uh, didn't get the karma I have by, uh, trolling. Please, uh, read the, uh, whole post before you, uh, moderate. Thanks.
It's a sad truth that, in the United States of America, there are people out there who truly fear the availability of highly accurate GPS navigation data to the general public because that data may fall into the hands of terrorists who, in some people's minds, would otherwise be unable to find their targets.
Past that, if such a GPS project became known to me, I may well feel the urge to pick up a GPS and start helping out with said project.
A valid observation about the state of a nation, a valid point about the existence of a project and a valid stance on cooperation with a similar future project. Someone's gonna get their ass handed to them in meta-moderation.
Only turrurists would have a use for maps, to locate large masses of population to attack. Are you a turrurist? Are you planning to fly a plane into my home? I don't want you havin' no access to no accurate maps.
Sadly, that's precisely the motivation for such a project to NOT exist. We, as a country, have not lost, but the majority, afraid of terrorism to the point of giving up freedoms and rights that just make sense to hold on to, has lost. Sometimes it's hard to be on the winning side.
Swinging back on topic here, I would love to see such a project come into existence. It might just convince me to buy a GPS and contribute something more useful than the drivel I get modded up for on Slashdot.
That is all.
Ahh, I see! They're going to require a top-end GPU so they can emulate an older GPU on that. That way, everyone sees the game exactly the same, regardless of their hardware. They would need full specs for that, I suppose.
You deprived a paying customer, who could have received that service, of the service which you did not pay for. You deprived the person providing the service of the ability to make money from that service during the time they were servicing you. Yes, I would say that is theft. More so, even, than stealing a CD, where you are only preventing the owner of the CD from using it.
I'll risk the offtopic mod for this.
It's at the bottom, where it should be, so you read all the comments in the thread before posting one of your own, thereby reducing the likelihood of redundant comments.
Of course, there is still the possibility of posting a comment similar to one which was posted after your copy of the page loaded. Hey, it happens.
Also, seemingly redundant comments on separate branches of a thread are not redundant. They're in response to entirely different comments.
Comments which restate their grandparent in response to a parent who obviously didn't get the point are not redundant. They're trying to clear up the issue for others who may not have understood what their grandparent was stating.
Look at the internet. What have all the broken Windows installs done to that neighborhood?
How many of those are downloaded? Of those which were not downloaded, how many are using patches which were downloaded?
Downloading really is bad when you bring Windows into the conversation.
As opposed to the rehashed stories with slashdot writing you get here?
So are Windows users!
Oh... Different meaning of revolting. My bad.
You're right. You can leave. You can also post articles supporting your views. If enough people are posting those articles and enough people are voting them up in Firehose, eventually, they'll make it on the site.
Slashdot is becoming more and more community driven, in case you haven't noticed. That means more and more of what actually makes it on the site is going to be geared toward what the majority of readers are interested in on any given day. It just so happens that, right now, one of the leading topics is politics and the majority of readers appear to disagree with you.
You can pick up your blocks and go home, you can complain like you're doing, or you can contribute. I'm fairly certain the majority of us would prefer to see you contribute, even if that means voicing an unpopular (yet still valid) opinion; after all, that's what fuels discussion and debate.
I don't have to admin it. I'm simply a user. Thank you, though. I'm sure you'd have even more sympathy for me, were I to tell you where I work (I'm not going to).
We know. You're on /.
I'm not in control of the decision. I'd simply be a user.
To that end, I should detail the tasks carried out by the machines in question.
They SSH in to one of the HP-UX servers and run some CLI apps (via a text-based menu system).
They browse the corporate intranet, with limited access to supplier websites, and run flash-based training apps.
They run custom ordering software, which is written and maintained in-house.
That's it, and the majority of daily use is SSH. The several hundred thousand users of these systems are already as trained as they would need to be in the event of such a switch. All back-end infrastructure is already running on a UNIX platform (HP-UX) and we all interact directly with it on a daily basis.
Even the ordering apps which currently run on the desktop are being slowly migrated to web apps, accessed via the intranet. If RedHat can't do that, I have no clue how I've been running an entire PR and marketing firm on Kubuntu and CentOS.
I work for a company that has over 80,000 windows desktops and over 6,000 HP-UX servers spread across over 2,000 locations. There has been a lot of very serious talk of replacing the old XP desktops with RedHat in 2010, keeping HP-UX on the servers until the support contract is up in 2013, then running RedHat there, as well. At least two locations are running RedHat servers on the racks right next to the HP-UX boxes for testing purposes. That's about all I have to say on the issue.
Me too, and I'm including this somewhat longer-than-need-be run on sentence to get please the lameness filter.
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I always thought the progression was something along the lines of:
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XP
On frequent coffee breaks, while my desktop reboots. That's why I run Vista at work!