My Final Computer Upgrade
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With 2012 right around the corner, along with my age and my rapidly diminishing desire to "keep up", I ordered what I hope is my final major computer upgrade today: Biostar TA790GX motherboard AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition (2.5ghz, quad core) G.Skill PC2 6400 RAM - 8gb (can go to 16gb if I want to) Finally replacing my IDE hard drives with SATA2 units Windows XP 64 I guess I won't have many/any problems running virtual machines. :)
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001But wait! Next month we're releasing our liquid-helium cooled 64-cpu PC!
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
It's the end of the Mayan calendar - 12/21/20012
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! No it isn't, it's just the start of the next Baktun. Feh. The Mayan calendar operates on 395-year cycles called Baktuns (called the Long Count). The end of each cycle is associated with a prediction. It just happens that the Baktun that ends in 2012 has a prediction about "massive change". The next day, the next Baktun (the 14th) simply starts.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein
Anonymous Patrick wrote:
The next day, the next Baktun (the 14th) simply starts.
that is where the great debate comes in, although cosmic event references have been found for astronomical events dating into the 14th baktun, the "official" calendar (official in that historians classified it as the official calendar, it is unknown what the mayans thought of it) is numbered 0-13. Which means there is no 14th baktun. The debate comes up, why did they stop? broke a chisel? got fired? lost count? got married? went on strike? or they started on a new rock because they ran out of bloody room and we lost the 2nd rock. :) who knows? Who knows, maybe the guy was murdered in the midst of counting and never got to finish it. Maybe it was his brother's job to finish it, and his brother was too busy in the red-light district to do his job.... You can come up with a zillion excuses for why the "official" long-block calendar stops at 13. And then you are assuming we are using their "official" calendar. Hind-sight is NOT 20/20, we're assuming we have the most accurate one. perhaps the guy got started on the wrong day, figured it out after counting to 13 baktun's and didn't have a rock shredder handy to destroy it before he started over again, or committed suicide after seeing his error. We're assuming the Mayan's were perfect because they were better at star-gazing than we were until only a few hundred years ago. Perhaps we're assuming too much, after all. :) Me? I've seen many too many budget cuts, I think the calendar guy got canned.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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But wait! Next month we're releasing our liquid-helium cooled 64-cpu PC!
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
do you take government purchase orders? ;P ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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do you take government purchase orders? ;P ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
Not from your government... I don't trust them. ;P
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Todd Smith wrote:
Quad core? Aren't octa cores out now?
No, they aren't. They are due by Christmas, but with the weak show of Skulltrail (dual quad core), there isn't a large push. I picked up a 9770 recently, the 9775 is still king of the hill at least for the moment.
Todd Smith wrote:
15k rpm drives I hope?
*sigh* SCSI 15k drives will set you back a pretty penny, and that is assuming you can keep the cache filled with data to achieve the throughput possible on a 15k drive. We do at work, but then that's my job, to beat a machine and bring it to its knees. I'll retire on the day I can't overload any computer they give me. :-D
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
El Corazon wrote:
*sigh* SCSI 15k drives will set you back a pretty penny, and that is assuming you can keep the cache filled with data to achieve the throughput possible on a 15k drive.
Back in the day when I did not have a life (no SO ...), I used to load my home computer up with things like this but it was really expensive and I know my 5+ year old 18G cheetah 15K will easily be outperformed by any 7200 RPM sata drive today but that is not why I retired it years ago. 18GB is way too small for anything important and it runs hot and makes a lot of noise and on top of that the SCSI raid card was taking up valuable slots.
John
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Not from your government... I don't trust them. ;P
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
You don't have to trust them, just accept their coin. or rather their promise for coin... they always pay their debts right?? ;P ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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Congrats! :jig: :beer:
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
quad core
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
8gb (can go to 16gb if I want to)
You can now run multiple Linux distros along with Vista virtual machines while testing your network project in VS 2008 that uses SQL Server 2008 meanwhile you can also play a game while a video is playing and 3DSMax is rendering a scene for your new game which is still a solution with tens of projects in VS 2008 and inside the other monitor look at the download manager of Firefox with a few thousands of tabs open... But probably you won't be able to hibernate easily and quickly! :-D
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I hope is my final major computer upgrade
Why?
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
modified on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:57 PM
Hamed Mosavi wrote:
Why?
Like he said, 2012 is around the corner. My guess is that's when he's planning to be cryogenically frozen until they find a cure for ESS (Extreme Sarcasm Syndrome). Either that, or he's retiring and never EVER wants to lay fingers on anything that even remotely feels like a keyboard - after a full career and who knows how many million keystrokes :) :doh:
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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Anonymous Patrick wrote:
The next day, the next Baktun (the 14th) simply starts.
that is where the great debate comes in, although cosmic event references have been found for astronomical events dating into the 14th baktun, the "official" calendar (official in that historians classified it as the official calendar, it is unknown what the mayans thought of it) is numbered 0-13. Which means there is no 14th baktun. The debate comes up, why did they stop? broke a chisel? got fired? lost count? got married? went on strike? or they started on a new rock because they ran out of bloody room and we lost the 2nd rock. :) who knows? Who knows, maybe the guy was murdered in the midst of counting and never got to finish it. Maybe it was his brother's job to finish it, and his brother was too busy in the red-light district to do his job.... You can come up with a zillion excuses for why the "official" long-block calendar stops at 13. And then you are assuming we are using their "official" calendar. Hind-sight is NOT 20/20, we're assuming we have the most accurate one. perhaps the guy got started on the wrong day, figured it out after counting to 13 baktun's and didn't have a rock shredder handy to destroy it before he started over again, or committed suicide after seeing his error. We're assuming the Mayan's were perfect because they were better at star-gazing than we were until only a few hundred years ago. Perhaps we're assuming too much, after all. :) Me? I've seen many too many budget cuts, I think the calendar guy got canned.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
El Corazon wrote:
I think the calendar guy got canned.
:laugh: Maybe he just figured that by the 21st century microprocessors would be universal, and a million years of calendar could be generated in the same time it took him to chisel the dot on an 'i' ;P
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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However, there is no agreement whether in 2012 there will be the end of civilization, or humanity will be elevated to a higher level, or a new human species will evolve, or some other major catastrophe will occur.
Since when elevation of humanity to a higher level is considered major catastrophe? :laugh:
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All programs evolve until they can send email. All internet discussions evolve until they reach GW point.
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All programs evolve until they can send email. All internet discussions evolve until they reach GW point.
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El Corazon wrote:
I think the calendar guy got canned.
:laugh: Maybe he just figured that by the 21st century microprocessors would be universal, and a million years of calendar could be generated in the same time it took him to chisel the dot on an 'i' ;P
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.