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"OM" wrote in message
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2) The successful completion display is a good visual benchmark of
whether or not your system's bogging down anywhere. When a trojan is
in operation and stealing cycles, the cards will bounce erratically.
If you have something hogging VRAM, or CPU cycles, the cards will move
slow.

Very interesting. I'll add that to my notebook. I'm a computer paramedic :P

Solitaire is responsible for more lost work time than anything else in
history. You're supposed to go back to work when you click "print", not play
games until you remember to check the printer.

At least Herb doesn't have to be Intel-challenged anymore.

Whatever happened to Cyrix? Got a Cyrix in my 486 (which, when I find some
RAM for it, will become a Linux server).

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 10:26:03 -0500, "Scott Hedrick"
wrote:

Whatever happened to Cyrix?

....Ah, Jerry Rogers. Haven't heard from him personally in years - met
him about 15 years ago or so at a FasMath demonstration - but from
what I recall after Intel lost the suit against Cyrix but won the war
by forcing Cyrix damn near into bankruptcy, they came up with the
MediaGX chips that **** dealers like Packard Bell sold dirt cheap and
managed to hurt Gateway and Micron enough to where Dell could come in
and own the low & medium-end market by 1998. Before that, they merged
with National Semi in '97, and the Cyrix division was eventually sold
to VIA, although the MediaGX was sold to AMD and renamed the Geode.
Cyrix is now essentially dead, with a last gasp being a chip designed
by Cyrix and manufactured by Centaur, but the tech lives on as, IIRC,
AMD is still incorporating Geode elements into their current line of
processors.

....One thing to remember about Cyrix: between them and AMD, they
forced Intel to accept the fact that there *is* money in the low-end
computing market, and that corporate beancounters will go for the
lowest bidder every time - especially when they learned that the CEO's
bimbo secretary can file her nails and type a memo in the same amount
of time with a cheap, slower system as she can with a top-of-the-line
screamer.

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"OM" wrote in message
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corporate beancounters will go for the
lowest bidder every time - especially when they learned that the CEO's
bimbo secretary can file her nails and type a memo in the same amount
of time with a cheap, slower system as she can with a top-of-the-line
screamer.

That's why I don't have the latest and greatest- and the only reason I do
upgrade is because software that has some features I want comes accompanied
with so much bloatware I have to have better hardware.

I believe I'm going to build my next computer. I'm thinking of using
plexiglass to build the case, which will be modeled after the Modis building
in Jacksonville. It will have two mobos, one for Windoze, the other for
Linux (probably Ubuntu), and have as much built-in as I can get. I'll need
casters. A semi-portable :P

I'll build the case over the next 18 months. The other hardware will depend
on finances.

OM wrote:

...One thing to remember about Cyrix: between them and AMD, they
forced Intel to accept the fact that there *is* money in the low-end
computing market, and that corporate beancounters will go for the
lowest bidder every time - especially when they learned that the CEO's
bimbo secretary can file her nails and type a memo in the same amount
of time with a cheap, slower system as she can with a top-of-the-line
screamer.

Huh. I thought the bimbo secretary _was_ the "top-of-the-line screamer".

Grinnin' and duckin',

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Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!"

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On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:26:03 -0600, Scott Hedrick wrote
(in article ):

At least Herb doesn't have to be Intel-challenged anymore.

I wasn't Intel-challenged before. I've had a P4 2.8HT desktop at home for
the past three years or so - my wife uses it to catalog and edit photos as a
hobby and I used it for a couple years to edit videos and make DVDs. It was
the only box with a built-in DVD burner for a long time. My new MacBook Pro
will be taking over that task now. I also have two other PCs at home for the
kids and their games, one of which is a pretty high-end gaming rig for my
son.

Oh, and I manage the office network of 7 PCs and a networked Ricoh copier,
printer, scanner fax machine. All of that crap is why I chose a Mac for my
personal use. Before that I used Mandrake Linux for about three years as a
daily desktop environment. :-p

--
You can run on for a long time,
Sooner or later, God'll cut you down.
~Johnny Cash

"Herb Schaltegger" wrote in message
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Before that I used Mandrake Linux for about three years as a
daily desktop environment. :-p

My experience with Mandrake was...unpleasant.

First, even though I directed it to the second hard drive, where it properly
installed itself, it formatted my Windows drive as well. I couldn't get
Windows 98 to reinstall, so I dual-booted Mandrake 7.1 with Windows
MoneyEdition.

It damaged a monitor. In Mandrake, the monitor was 17" 800x60, but in
Windows, it was *square*- 15x15 at 800x600. When I moved the monitor to my
wife's computer, which hadn't been within ten feet of the Mandrake CDs, the
monitor *still* was square.

Removing Mandrake prompted me to buy PartitionMagic, since it simply *would
not* leave otherwise.

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:11:58 -0600, Scott Hedrick wrote
(in article ):

My experience with Mandrake was...unpleasant.

That's odd. I used 7.1 through 9.something and never had trouble
dual-booting with Win98 as necessary. I did have similar monitor issues
but never to the point of damage to the monitor. The monitor I had at the
time (probably an NEC 15" or 17" multisync) was never properly recognized
during setup but I was always able to manually input the resolution and
refresh rates and it worked like a charm.

--
You can run on for a long time,
Sooner or later, God'll cut you down.
~Johnny Cash

"Herb Schaltegger" wrote in message
Sorry Bob - once you drink the Kool Aid, you never want to go back. OS X
has
such great security features that there are NO successful viruses, 6 years
after it was introduced; it has usability features like Dashboard, Expose
and
Spotlight that Win-blows STILL can't match, and it runs smoothly on
everything from 5 and 6 year old laptops to brand-new multi-core Intel
processors.


Define scuccessulf:

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/osxleapa.html

(and that's 30 seconds of googling).

So you're a little out of date.

On 2007-02-06 21:21:19 -0800, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
said:


"Herb Schaltegger" wrote in message
Sorry Bob - once you drink the Kool Aid, you never want to go back. OS X has
such great security features that there are NO successful viruses, 6 years
after it was introduced; it has usability features like Dashboard, Expose and
Spotlight that Win-blows STILL can't match, and it runs smoothly on
everything from 5 and 6 year old laptops to brand-new multi-core Intel
processors.


Define scuccessulf:

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/osxleapa.html

(and that's 30 seconds of googling).

So you're a little out of date.

Oh that's just ignorant nit-picking. I tracked and documented CERT
security alerts as part of my last job. Since this was for a
virtualization server running on what was essentially a Linux core OS,
I tracked both Windows and Linux alerts. There was a constant stream
of the former, easily an order of magnatude fewer of the latter, on
average. And I kept an eye on the OS X alerts since I drive Macs in
real life*--there were appreciably fewer of those since OS X stems from
an different UNIX pedigree, plus for inherent technical reasons I'm
going to gloss over, it's just harder to hack than Linux.

Even thinking to riposte Herb's paen to OS X on security grounds is
just lame and stupid. There are other reasons--Spotlight is dog slow
for any moderately fragmented hard drive, for one--but not for virus
vulnerability.

*I'll drive those goddamn abortion boxes when a corp. is paying my
contract rate, but when I'm on my own dime it's "if it ain't Boeing (OS
X), I ain't going," baby.


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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:21:19 -0600, Greg D. Moore \(Strider\) wrote
(in article k.net):


"Herb Schaltegger" wrote in message
Sorry Bob - once you drink the Kool Aid, you never want to go back. OS X
has
such great security features that there are NO successful viruses, 6 years
after it was introduced; it has usability features like Dashboard, Expose
and
Spotlight that Win-blows STILL can't match, and it runs smoothly on
everything from 5 and 6 year old laptops to brand-new multi-core Intel
processors.


Define scuccessulf:

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/osxleapa.html

(and that's 30 seconds of googling).

So you're a little out of date.




What an overblown bunch of nonsense. That "worm" requires the user to
download, decompress and execute the file then enter their admin password to
cause any damage.

You might just as well whip up a shell script to do the same thing and send
the user an email telling him to execute it. That's NOT the definition of a
true virus, which can propagate, replicate and cause damage on its own
without user intervention, like those thousands of Windows exploits in the
wild.

--
You can run on for a long time,
Sooner or later, God'll cut you down.
~Johnny Cash