Do I have to point out that the 10cm and 15cm bays are also a nice round 4in and 6in? I think that the fact that the floppy disk is almost exactly 9cm across is coincidence, after all it's the magnetic bit inside that's supposed to be 3.5in as far as I heard.
It definitely sounds like it's on about dynamic recoding, likely from "any codec" to a common stream format, eg mpeg2 or WMV, that can be played from any stream reciever. A 1GHz pc can stutter playing XVid-encoded content sometimes, so you would need a quite powerful pc to simultaneously decode and encode in realtime. Of course, both MPEG2 and WMV streams are likely to be larger than the original video, so it might stress a wireless connection a bit.
Also, my fileserver beats yours hands-down: Dual Athlon MP 2400+ (2GHz each) 1.5GB ram 5 hard-disks, 20GB system and 4x300GB storage array (not full thank god). Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (MSDNAA, gotta love it) I built it myself, and it doesn't crash, ever. Though it freezes in seconds if I try to install this gigabit ethernet card or use the on-board intel (!?) nic, so I'm stuck with using a 100Mb pci card for now.
Btw, who decided to attach aerials directly to pci wireless cards? I get nearly no signal through my media pc's case. Now I need to find an aerial on a stand with a short (30cm) cable, that fits my netgear card (which fortunately has a replaceable aerial).
Better yet I have two differently sized Maxtor DiamondMax9 160GB hard-disks, with one defining 1 GB = 1,000,000 kB (with 1kB = 1024 bytes) and the other 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Works out as ~152.6GB for one and ~149.0GB for the other. More than 3.5GB difference between two drives labelled with the same size. Suffice to say it annoyed my raid controller when I tried to add a 149GB disk to an array made from 152GB disks.
Not necessarily, because people who click on an ad accidentally don't tend to buy from the site they visit, so it lowers the value of google's adverts. So they get money in the short term, but less advertisers in the long run.
For a free 64-bit virus scanner I recommend Avast! Home edition. Just sign up and they send you a free 2-year license key. When your key runs out just sign up again.
I moved away from AVG because I had a virus break straight through it once, and when I found out they didn't have a 64-bit version either I went looking elsewhere.
I have the dvd edition of NWN2 and it runs flawlessly on my windows x64 rig (admittedly it's still a 32-bit program, but it still runs flawlessly). The updater even worked first time, unlike a lot of people on the NWN forums who had trouble. My bet is that anyone who had trouble has a small problem with their machine, NWN2 is huge and it only takes a 1-bit error in the whole thing to make the updater give up on you.
I wasn't implying that it was a fault of linux or a virtue of windows that hardware tends not to work under linux, and does under windows. I was just saying that the manufacturer's windows drivers for any random hardware tend to be better / exist more than the linux drivers. You might also have noticed that I subtly praised linux's open-source-ness by saying that there's always the possibility of a 3rd-party driver that makes it work under linux, and that if there was it would make it one of the only recent devices to work under linux and NOT windows.
Also I love how you say it might take a while for cheap hardware to get linux drivers, and then go on to say how it might take a while for enthusiast hardware to get drivers under linux. You make it sound like linux only supports hardware more than 5 years old. I must say that Fedora 6 x64 works fine on my athlon64 / nforce 4 / x1900xtx system straight from install (or it did after I manually installed the bootloader that the automated setup silently failed to do).
I'd also like to point out that it's rare for hardware that can physically be inserted into an xp minimum spec machine to not have drivers. Your ISA network card example is poor, because an xp minimum spec machine shouldn't have an ISA socket in it (ignoring for now the fact that ISA hardware would likely be outside it's recommended operating life). On the other hand the 20-year-old epson lx-800 dot-matrix printer I have at home has drivers for even windows x64 shipped with the OS.
Finally, why the hell would anyone be trying to use token ring with xp? Or at all?
No, and it doesn't run ON linux either. At least not because of Belkin, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a 3rd-party open source driver. It would make a change for Linux to be more compatible than windows.
Yeah, I forgot the other video issues. Some cheap kvms (generally older ones with physical switch) cause the monitor to turn off when you switch them, and some (cheap/old) monitors then take some time to come back online. It sounds like the problem you're having is worse than that though.
The better kvm's don't pass the signal for the mouse through directly, instead they pretend to be a mouse to both pcs, routing the data from the real mouse to the appropriate one. This prevents the synch errors on switching by having the kvm only send complete packets to the pc. It does introduce a one-packet delay in the mouse though (imperceptible), and often makes the mouse show up as being a wheelmouse (for compatibility) even if it isn't.
Don't get me started on belkin, I've had trouble with everything they've made. I've even got a usb bluetooth adapter here that isn't xp sp2 compatible. It's an F8T001_v1, I've had it since before SP2 was released, and I tried it again recently and they still haven't made SP2 drivers for it (last driver release was 2003).
But seriously, I read an article once about why kvms can't switch mice properly, apparently it's because the ps2 mouse protocol has no synchronisation in it. So when a cheap kvm switches the mouse to the other pc, switching in the middle of a data packet more often than not, the pc starts thinking the start of the packet is the middle. This results in things like "moving the mouse clicks the buttons" and other such fun. Most mouse drivers can identify this problem and correct for it, but it takes a few seconds of mouse movement. Even better, some laptops have a kind of ps2 merge circuit for their ps2 touchpad and external mouse, so if the external mouse gets out of sync there is no way to correct it, because the merge is too stupid and the drivers can't see the touchpad and mouse separately, so it can't independently change the synch of the external mouse.
In other words, either get a decent kvm, a kvm that can switch usb mice (which do have synch and so don't have this problem), or stick to two separate mice.
Oh, one more word of kvm warning, they often can't handle resolutions above 1024x768 on the monitor without blurring badly. Whether this is the fault of the cheap cables they always come with or the kvm itself, I don't know.
Suspend to ram is known as "Suspend Mode: S3" in the bios. A lot of PCs default to "S1&S3" (which I've no idea what it means) or plain S1 mode, which doesn't seem to actually power anything off, it just stops the cpu executing instructions.
Btw, my pc uses about 15W in S3 and 2W when off, vs about 150-250W when on.
Yes, but these companies don't make their money on food or shelter.
Most of the OLPCs are going to countries where the people have shelter and food and water, but are in desperate need of decent education.
Plus I'd love a small laptop I could play simple games or read web-pages on while I had nothing better to do. I have a pocket pc, but software is lacking for it and typing on it is a pain. (I'm not a child btw)
You forgot to divide by 8 for bits->bytes, giving a whopping 32MB to the page. And, if the shapes are one single colour then you're right about it being 17 bits/cell, if each pixel of a cell can be a different colour then it become 8x9 instead of 8+9, giving 72 bits/cell, and around 128MB to the page. Still very short of 245GB
You are assuming 512 colour depths = 512 bits, which isn't true. It's actually 512 VALUES, or 9 bits. Ditto with shapes, 256 shapes is 256 values, not 256 bits. That's 8 bits. So it's actually 9x8 = 72 bits/cell. 72 bits x 160,000 cells/sq in x 93.5 sq in = 1,077,120,000 bits, 134,640,000 bytes, or 128MB. Better?
I've never seen more intense concentration or more swearing than in a group of friends playing guitar hero (taking turns, we don't even have two controllers for it). Great fun.
Then why upgrade the machines running the legacy apps / scripts at all? It's not like the older versions of windows don't run fine. Making sure they're not connected to the internet is all you need to do to make them secure, or if that's not viable then heavily restrict their access with a firewall (preferably hardware). After all, why should a weather data sensing and reporting machine (for example) be able to connect to anything except the database it's sending the data to? Why should it be able to get any incoming connections at all? Even running unpatched windows 3.0 it would be safe if set up like that.
Do small in-line hardware firewalls exist? Just with an incoming and outgoing RJ45 socket and a hardware circuit that only allows data through to or from a single ip (or range)? I can see many businesses could use these.
The repeated crashes I had with FF2.0 all disappeared when I disabled the google toolbar add-in. With the integrated Google search, spellchecker and anti-phishing, there's very little for the google toolbar to do anyhow. Although, the buttons for finding/highlighting the search terms in the page are very useful.
At least they haven't Slashdotted slashdot! Can you imagine what would happen? Some kind of massive paradoxical space rift would open up and the entire universe as we know it would be swallowed and uh, AND!
If the game baked the textures into a traditional bitmap in memory then it would just mean longer load times. Or maybe not, depending on how slow the storage you're loading from is.
You could even generate the textures to various detail levels (mips) asynchronously depending on the mip levels that the game tries to render.
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Tetris is hardly "latest".
I don't have that problem, what version of FF are you using? I'm using 2.0.0.1 for windows.
Do I have to point out that the 10cm and 15cm bays are also a nice round 4in and 6in? I think that the fact that the floppy disk is almost exactly 9cm across is coincidence, after all it's the magnetic bit inside that's supposed to be 3.5in as far as I heard.
It definitely sounds like it's on about dynamic recoding, likely from "any codec" to a common stream format, eg mpeg2 or WMV, that can be played from any stream reciever. A 1GHz pc can stutter playing XVid-encoded content sometimes, so you would need a quite powerful pc to simultaneously decode and encode in realtime. Of course, both MPEG2 and WMV streams are likely to be larger than the original video, so it might stress a wireless connection a bit.
Also, my fileserver beats yours hands-down:
Dual Athlon MP 2400+ (2GHz each)
1.5GB ram
5 hard-disks, 20GB system and 4x300GB storage array (not full thank god).
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (MSDNAA, gotta love it)
I built it myself, and it doesn't crash, ever. Though it freezes in seconds if I try to install this gigabit ethernet card or use the on-board intel (!?) nic, so I'm stuck with using a 100Mb pci card for now.
Btw, who decided to attach aerials directly to pci wireless cards? I get nearly no signal through my media pc's case. Now I need to find an aerial on a stand with a short (30cm) cable, that fits my netgear card (which fortunately has a replaceable aerial).
Better yet I have two differently sized Maxtor DiamondMax9 160GB hard-disks, with one defining 1 GB = 1,000,000 kB (with 1kB = 1024 bytes) and the other 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes.
Works out as ~152.6GB for one and ~149.0GB for the other. More than 3.5GB difference between two drives labelled with the same size. Suffice to say it annoyed my raid controller when I tried to add a 149GB disk to an array made from 152GB disks.
Not necessarily, because people who click on an ad accidentally don't tend to buy from the site they visit, so it lowers the value of google's adverts. So they get money in the short term, but less advertisers in the long run.
For a free 64-bit virus scanner I recommend Avast! Home edition. Just sign up and they send you a free 2-year license key. When your key runs out just sign up again.
I moved away from AVG because I had a virus break straight through it once, and when I found out they didn't have a 64-bit version either I went looking elsewhere.
I have the dvd edition of NWN2 and it runs flawlessly on my windows x64 rig (admittedly it's still a 32-bit program, but it still runs flawlessly). The updater even worked first time, unlike a lot of people on the NWN forums who had trouble. My bet is that anyone who had trouble has a small problem with their machine, NWN2 is huge and it only takes a 1-bit error in the whole thing to make the updater give up on you.
I wasn't implying that it was a fault of linux or a virtue of windows that hardware tends not to work under linux, and does under windows. I was just saying that the manufacturer's windows drivers for any random hardware tend to be better / exist more than the linux drivers. You might also have noticed that I subtly praised linux's open-source-ness by saying that there's always the possibility of a 3rd-party driver that makes it work under linux, and that if there was it would make it one of the only recent devices to work under linux and NOT windows.
Also I love how you say it might take a while for cheap hardware to get linux drivers, and then go on to say how it might take a while for enthusiast hardware to get drivers under linux. You make it sound like linux only supports hardware more than 5 years old. I must say that Fedora 6 x64 works fine on my athlon64 / nforce 4 / x1900xtx system straight from install (or it did after I manually installed the bootloader that the automated setup silently failed to do).
I'd also like to point out that it's rare for hardware that can physically be inserted into an xp minimum spec machine to not have drivers. Your ISA network card example is poor, because an xp minimum spec machine shouldn't have an ISA socket in it (ignoring for now the fact that ISA hardware would likely be outside it's recommended operating life). On the other hand the 20-year-old epson lx-800 dot-matrix printer I have at home has drivers for even windows x64 shipped with the OS.
Finally, why the hell would anyone be trying to use token ring with xp? Or at all?
No, and it doesn't run ON linux either. At least not because of Belkin, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a 3rd-party open source driver. It would make a change for Linux to be more compatible than windows.
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http://www.belkin.com/support/download.asp?lang=1
Yeah, I forgot the other video issues. Some cheap kvms (generally older ones with physical switch) cause the monitor to turn off when you switch them, and some (cheap/old) monitors then take some time to come back online. It sounds like the problem you're having is worse than that though.
The better kvm's don't pass the signal for the mouse through directly, instead they pretend to be a mouse to both pcs, routing the data from the real mouse to the appropriate one. This prevents the synch errors on switching by having the kvm only send complete packets to the pc. It does introduce a one-packet delay in the mouse though (imperceptible), and often makes the mouse show up as being a wheelmouse (for compatibility) even if it isn't.
Don't get me started on belkin, I've had trouble with everything they've made. I've even got a usb bluetooth adapter here that isn't xp sp2 compatible. It's an F8T001_v1, I've had it since before SP2 was released, and I tried it again recently and they still haven't made SP2 drivers for it (last driver release was 2003).
But seriously, I read an article once about why kvms can't switch mice properly, apparently it's because the ps2 mouse protocol has no synchronisation in it. So when a cheap kvm switches the mouse to the other pc, switching in the middle of a data packet more often than not, the pc starts thinking the start of the packet is the middle. This results in things like "moving the mouse clicks the buttons" and other such fun. Most mouse drivers can identify this problem and correct for it, but it takes a few seconds of mouse movement. Even better, some laptops have a kind of ps2 merge circuit for their ps2 touchpad and external mouse, so if the external mouse gets out of sync there is no way to correct it, because the merge is too stupid and the drivers can't see the touchpad and mouse separately, so it can't independently change the synch of the external mouse.
In other words, either get a decent kvm, a kvm that can switch usb mice (which do have synch and so don't have this problem), or stick to two separate mice.
Oh, one more word of kvm warning, they often can't handle resolutions above 1024x768 on the monitor without blurring badly. Whether this is the fault of the cheap cables they always come with or the kvm itself, I don't know.
Suspend to ram is known as "Suspend Mode: S3" in the bios. A lot of PCs default to "S1&S3" (which I've no idea what it means) or plain S1 mode, which doesn't seem to actually power anything off, it just stops the cpu executing instructions.
Btw, my pc uses about 15W in S3 and 2W when off, vs about 150-250W when on.
Big deal. _Vista_ has had this in the kernel since _beta_.
(Why can't we underline?)
Yes, but these companies don't make their money on food or shelter.
Most of the OLPCs are going to countries where the people have shelter and food and water, but are in desperate need of decent education.
Plus I'd love a small laptop I could play simple games or read web-pages on while I had nothing better to do. I have a pocket pc, but software is lacking for it and typing on it is a pain. (I'm not a child btw)
You forgot to divide by 8 for bits->bytes, giving a whopping 32MB to the page.
And, if the shapes are one single colour then you're right about it being 17 bits/cell, if each pixel of a cell can be a different colour then it become 8x9 instead of 8+9, giving 72 bits/cell, and around 128MB to the page. Still very short of 245GB
You are assuming 512 colour depths = 512 bits, which isn't true. It's actually 512 VALUES, or 9 bits.
Ditto with shapes, 256 shapes is 256 values, not 256 bits. That's 8 bits.
So it's actually 9x8 = 72 bits/cell.
72 bits x 160,000 cells/sq in x 93.5 sq in = 1,077,120,000 bits, 134,640,000 bytes, or 128MB. Better?
I've never seen more intense concentration or more swearing than in a group of friends playing guitar hero (taking turns, we don't even have two controllers for it). Great fun.
Then why upgrade the machines running the legacy apps / scripts at all? It's not like the older versions of windows don't run fine. Making sure they're not connected to the internet is all you need to do to make them secure, or if that's not viable then heavily restrict their access with a firewall (preferably hardware). After all, why should a weather data sensing and reporting machine (for example) be able to connect to anything except the database it's sending the data to? Why should it be able to get any incoming connections at all? Even running unpatched windows 3.0 it would be safe if set up like that.
Do small in-line hardware firewalls exist? Just with an incoming and outgoing RJ45 socket and a hardware circuit that only allows data through to or from a single ip (or range)? I can see many businesses could use these.
The repeated crashes I had with FF2.0 all disappeared when I disabled the google toolbar add-in. With the integrated Google search, spellchecker and anti-phishing, there's very little for the google toolbar to do anyhow. Although, the buttons for finding/highlighting the search terms in the page are very useful.
This youtube video shows a phone keypad layout (I think it's the same one?), and it is remarkably querty-esq.e lated&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebipxePmBQ0&mode=r
This might be truer than you think. Think about it, weren't telegrams technically "electronic mail"?
At least they haven't Slashdotted slashdot! Can you imagine what would happen? Some kind of massive paradoxical space rift would open up and the entire universe as we know it would be swallowed and uh, AND!
If the game baked the textures into a traditional bitmap in memory then it would just mean longer load times. Or maybe not, depending on how slow the storage you're loading from is.
You could even generate the textures to various detail levels (mips) asynchronously depending on the mip levels that the game tries to render.
Does this mean that all replies to comments after the 2^24-1th one were attached to much much older comments instead? Can anyone find one and see?
Perhaps some sql command that adds 2^24 to a comment's parent entry if the comment's own id is >2^24 and it's parent is less than 10,000?