oh, the digitalriver thing with links to windows 7 too? though they're technically not trials they are full ones that require a serial number
like any windows installation as it is a regular windows installation
A copyright guy once told me it's all about having a piece of paper that's the license, and there's no problem using a copied cd for example if you have the license. the fact that MS has offered downloads on their site, backs that up
though I called a company called FAST to check, they said it depends on the individual writing the agreement, his terms.
but still some find things about 7's GUI a pain in the ass
a friend of mine shifted to apple/mac(whatever they call it) because of that. he preferred xp over mac and xp.
the taskbar has such huge icons.. it's absurd. and smaller icons don't save much space. XP you could make the taskbar very neat putting it to the left, the icons went in a grid. not so with windows 7
you don't get the grid of little icons when you ptu the taskbar on the side. you just get oen column of them taking up a huge/full width.
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colleague IMs me: "it's not working :(" I get up reluctantly to go help them for the 50000th time they try it while I watch them it works I stare blankly, go "oookeeeeeey" and go back to desk shaking my head.
@Tanner cubicles are bad enough. my monitor faces almost 180 degrees from the cubicle entrance, and I listen to music in my headphones for two reasons: the passive noise cancelling drowns out the distractions, and because I love music. I don't know when someone is behind me trying to get my attention until I installed a rear-view mirror on my monitor.
now I have a nervous habit of constantly glancing in my rear-view mirror (which is out of my active field of vision when looking at most parts of the screen) to make sure nobody takes me by surprise.
and I always see people walking by in the hallway because there's a ton of hallway traffic of people going to the bathroom, kitchen, etc. and my boss likes to walk to the kitchen, get a paper towel, walk back to his office, get a piece of fruit, walk to the kitchen, wash it off, walk back to his office, eat it, walk back to the kitchen to throw it away, walk back to his office, etc
at least he makes enough low frequency noise with his footfalls that it penetrates the PNC of my on-ear headphones and I know to task switch away from RA/SU before he gets into visual range :P
this other coworker is ridiculously quiet when he walks and he can catch me off guard >_<
he would make a great spy in TF2
i've been a lot more nervous recently because i have new employees constantly coming to me for help, and some of them don't seem to understand the tacit courtesy of knocking loudly on my cabinet if they're trying to get my attention while i'm wearing headphones, so they just start talking like i can hear them
I'm stuffed in a corner with a door to the outside on my right and a door to the server room on my left. Even if I leave the door to the server room open I can tell when somebody is walking towards my area by the displacement of the fan noises. I typically keep the door to the outside locked. My cube entrance is just to the right of my third monitor, which is where I keep all my slacking-off stuff. I share the area with one person, who was gone for three months.
I once went three days without seeing a coworker. =D
with the pay i make, i should be like, if you want me to train new employees as an added task on top of what i do, you should offer me additional pay for the additional responsibility, or else get someone else to do it who's normally responsible for that stuff, like a manager
I don't care if you have to rap your knuckles on a cube wall hard enough that it makes a thunk noise. :P Give people time to hide their pr0n before entering
I keep getting disconnected from this chat all of a sudden... Anyways, the Canadian Mint is trying to do away with cash transactions under $10 and Intel is building the technology to let us do it
> The value is stored in secure integrated chips and uses a secure protocol that allows the transfer of value from one chip to another. Like cash, it operates without the need for personal identification, is instantaneous and does not have any age or credit requirements for use.
@Luke We have a trade embargo with Cuba. I don't think you will be prevented from travelling there. People have vacationed in NK, for heaven's sake. Don't think you'll be prevented (maybe scrutinized, but not prevented).
@BenRichards Any reason why the only Americans I've seen traveling there had to come to Canada, then fly over? And why every Canadian knows not to let Cuba stamp their passports? Remember, Canadians aren't treated nicely by border control
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@Luke Our airlines probably don't have any flights to Cuba (likely due to the trade embargo). Also, if Cuba stamped the passport, it probably would mean extra special scrutiny by American customs officials. Trade embargo means potentiality of smugglers.
As far as my understanding goes, you can visit Cuba, but you cannot spend money there. The USA has an embargo on Cuba. Wikipedia has a pretty solid article on it. You need a license to actually participate in commerce... but since that includes buying food you in essence cannot go to Cuba.
Licen...
The Cuba Information Manual ("The Definitive Guide to Legal and Illegal Travel to Cuba") says:
The embargo laws do not forbid U.S. citizens from traveling to Cuba.
They do, however, forbid U.S. citizens from spending money there
without the proper permits, which essentially amounts to the...
I have a 3GHz single-core Intel hyperthreading machine with 2GB of RAM and a 7200 RPM hard drive running Windows 7. I do music production, Office, and Visual Studio 2010 on it. It plays 720p video fairly well, and 1080p h.264, but barely. I'm considering building an Intel Core I7 3.5ghz quad-core machine with DDR3 2200 memory and an SSD. What sort of ball-park overall performance boost should I expect?
@OliverSalzburg I didn't think it was ever possible to install it without a key. Or validation, for that matter. Every time we do it here on our isolated network, we have to call Microsoft and ask for a validation key.
umm... ballpark diff in performance from an ancient, obsolete P4 box to a 3770K with SSD is like the difference between a tricycle and a supersonic jet...
@allquixotic My dev machine at work has two Intel Xeon processors at 2.66 Ghz, processor and memory at 7.6 Windows Experience subscores. It's a nice machine, but TBH is not all that much faster than my "ancient" Pentium 4. So I guess I wouldn't really know what Supersonic feels like.
@OliverSalzburg Previous versions of Windows didn't require validation. Then again, I was running Windows XP SP3 on my home machine until a few months ago.
you won't notice the performance increase if you aren't using the performance, though -- the only thing I can think of that would really use it would be multi-threaded compilation in Visual Studio
@Moshe My guess is that it's a manufacturing defect. I haven't seen an adapter like that. Though personally, it'd be good to double-check what each wire is used for and if it missing makes sense...
@Moshe you're confusing the crap out of me. does your power supply provide a connector with the same number of pins as the graphics card needs (look at the pins on the female port on the card)?
@RobertHarvey basic desktop manipulation won't see a huge difference between those systems, but hopefully you're getting >= 16GB of RAM in the new box, and that alone will virtually eliminate swapping of any substantial amount, and the swapping you DO do will be to the SSD, so it'll be much faster than HDD swapping
even at 4GB on my crap workstation at work I can feel the swap lag with a bunch of browser tabs and word docs open; at 2GB I'd go insane from all the swapping
@allquixotic I think @Moshe is confused as to why the female connector that comes with the graphics card has a random missing metal lead in the bottom middle row.
@Moshe the 6th pin on the PSU connector isn't "extra"; it's required if you aren't converting molex to PCI-E
just plug the native cable straight out of the PSU into the card, job done, throw away the molex cable and forget about it, you don't have an old enough PSU to need that cable
the metal lead just isn't needed (or would cause some kind of problem) due to the physics/engineering of converting dual molex into PCI-E; I don't know why
Anyways, those adapter cables are usually for special cases. In most new cases, you should be able to connect the PSU to the graphics card (or anything else) with a single cable, no adapters.
the only reason you'd ever need that cable is if you wanted to move your graphics card to an older system with an older power supply that doesn't have a 6-pin PCIE connector, which would be from ~2006 or older
if you have no such plans, you can toss the cable in the trash, re-sell it, maybe recycle it if you have an electronics recycling program, or just keep it around as junk parts (I usually choose the latter)
@allquixotic I have too many junk parts that usually end up in a tangled mess in a box or something. I really wonder what I'll do to organize all that crap.
Even if it's standardized cables... I have like 5 extra VGA cables, a couple extra DVI-D cables laying around, and a few ethernet cables, plus umpteen USB cables everywhere.
@BenRichards heh my biggest vice is USB cables lately... a lot of old mini -USB from the bad old days of using Windows Mobile smartphones before micro-USB was popular
@RobertHarvey I use the stock fan and can generally get sustained "turbo" speeds (4.2 GHz), though if you're serious about OCing the 3770K to 5GHz and above, water or (super elite) liquid nitrogen is recommended
Gotcha. I don't need Call of Duty at 120FPS or anything like that; I just want a fast, stable system that can handle multiple audio channels and synths.
my entire cooling setup is air, but my house is well air-conditioned and an A/C vent is directionally aimed to blow on the intake of my case (I direct it away in winter when using heat), but even without it I can easily use it at stock speeds and with turbo
have multiple large case fans though, plenty of air movement through the case (required for the RAID card)
@RobertHarvey RAID 0 on two 4TB 7200RPM HDDs; I don't need microsecond seek times, but high throughput, enormous capacity, and cost were my optimization factors
SSDs can still win at throughput in both directions in general, but the capacity just isn't there, or if you get the capacity even close you'll be paying 50x more
I spent about ~$250 on an entry level RAID card, and ~$250 per 4TB HDD for 8 TB of usable storage capacity, (I guestimate) at least 5 years of useful life without any noticeable degradation, throughput approaching a low-end SSD (both read and write), and the only downside is I still boot slow because of the seek time...
can easily capture uncompressed (FRAPS) video at 1920x1080@60FPS, as long as the GPU can keep up, which the Radeon HD7970 usually can
a half hour capture can run 100GB, but storing that temporarily on an 8TB array is peanuts; I compress it down to about 300-400MB and upload it to youtube.
I basically have a perfect "Let's Play" setup, except I can't stream live because of my slow internet
and the upload takes all night so I fire it off and go to sleep
I recall having serious problems with my disk's write speed keeping up with the throughput of FRAPS' generating data to write to disk, and this vicious cycle would cause high CPU usage, slow down the framerate of the game, etc. ... this was before I got hardware RAID
high quality Let's Play just wasn't possible then
but now I can upload my videos in native 1080p with very good quality, and the only tradeoff I have to make is whether I want the upload to take all night, or all night and all of the next day, which is really just limited by my internet, not the system components
@BenRichards unless you have a really weird mobo, you don't actually have hardware RAID if it's on the mobo...
it's probably FakeRAID, which 99.999% of all mobo RAIDs are
@BenRichards does your mobo have a CPU-sized, heatsinked, dedicated chip for doing the processing necessary for RAID? if not, then you don't have hardware RAID. I think only server-grade mobos, and even then rarely, have dedicated RAID hardware on the motherboard.
all FakeRAID is, is the BIOS recognizes a certain disk layout/format as being part of a RAID array, and can boot from it... but all the calculations and synchronization is done on the CPU
sometimes FakeRAID can be slower than software RAID because a software RAID will often be smarter about things like block alignment with the filesystem, because FakeRAID layouts don't know about the underlying filesystem, but software RAID in many cases does (btrfs, NTFS, ZFS)
@BenRichards it's not that the RAID is implemented by the southbridge; it's just that the southbridge is the SATA controller
definitely fake RAID from what I can tell -- reviews, etc. don't say anything about there being a dedicated on-board RAID controller
put it this way; if the mobo had a dedicated RAID controller on-board, on a desktop mobo, it would be revolutionary enough for all the reviewers and spec sheets to mention it prominently
@BenRichards look at this RAID controller, which BTW is a very low-end, entry level enterprise RAID controller. it can only support a small number of devices. It comes with a dual core 800 MHz dedicated ASIC with a die size approaching a laptop's CPU.
from what I can tell, that PMC-Sierra PM8013 has a 316 mm^2 die size and uses a 45nm microarchitecture, so it's extremely advanced... and that's just for RAID...
the primary difference between software RAID and hardware RAID isn't so much the throughput; it's that your CPU usage spikes when doing significant RAID writes, whereas with hardware RAID it's offloaded to the ROC.
that could have a slight impact on applications making heavy usage of the CPU and disk at the same time.
if you had an app that used very little CPU and just did a lot of writing (like, say, cat /dev/urandom > /home/user/file) software and hardware RAID would be practically identical
@RobertHarvey Yep -- and if all you're doing is surfing the web, you will probably barely notice.. it's when you get to doing I/O with media (video, audio, gaming) that you start to need it
don't forget that the memory bandwidth and disk I/O speed of your new rig are going to probably be even more dramatic of an increase than the CPU
@allquixotic I am hoping I notice compile times decrease in VS as well. 15 seconds feels like a long compile cycle to me, so I recoil in horror when I hear these C++ guys with projects that take 2, 3 minutes to compile.
@RobertHarvey you must not be doing very complex stuff if it's only taking 2-3 minutes to compile
build something like the Linux kernel or Xorg or LLVM... probably around 10 minutes on a really fast system backed by an SSD; enable LTO and it'll shoot up to 30
heck i remember leaving my Core 2 system on overnight to compile Gentoo updates to Xorg and Mesa and Firefox
yall spoiled these days with faster compilers and stuff
@barlop AFAICT the platform is more or less identical; i3, i5 and i7 are all LGA1155 sockets, so the power connectors are likely to be the same. They might have slight changes in CPU voltage.
of course the p4 example.. mbrds were different for p4 and amd athlon
BUT..
no, I mean..
A PSU compatible with P4, had to have a specific connector.
Obviously a power supply that is -said- to be compatible with P4, will support anything (of the time anyway)
it'd support amd athlon xp
And of course indeed, that PSU will support i3-i7 there's no disputing that
the text says it does
What I am asking though, is, suppose the PSU did not support i3-i7
suppose it wasn't advertised as supporting that.
i.e.
if you bought a PSU 1 year ago, could it be it wouldn't haeve something necessary for i3-7?
i.e. if a PSU is advertised as compatible with i3-i7, it suggests to me that maybe some other PSUs on the market, or some other recent ones that are maybe only a year old, aren't compatible with i3-i7
I was just going through the review queue, and wanted to reject a particular edit (it was invalid). However, I accidentally clicked Skip. No big deal...
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I know in apache you can get this through web-access logs. Thanks
The Cuba Information Manual ("The Definitive Guide to Legal and Illegal Travel to Cuba") says:
The embargo laws do not forbid U.S. citizens from traveling to Cuba.
They do, however, forbid U.S. citizens from spending money there
without the proper permits, which essentially amounts to the...
