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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
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> >> Damn - what on earth could you possibly use 1 TB of disk for?? o_O
> >
> > My home server has close on 500GB of drives and is over half full.
> > Assorted downloads, pdfs, Virtual PC images, ripped CDs (mine), Ripped
DVDs
> > (mine), backups of the other machines
> > It adds up
>
> Wait, back up... virtual PC images?
Yup. Virtual PC (or virtual server). Both free downloads (From MS). Allows
you to install an OS and run a virtual machine as an application.
I use them for Beta software mostly. Also have a couple of software that
wouldn't play nice on the same machine, or that I don't trust fully.
The 'harddrives' of these are just files.
Very much like VMWare, just free
> OK, that'll do it by itself. The default install of Windoze XP eats well
> over 1 GB of space. Add Office for an additional 1 GB of space gone. It
> wouldn't take very many PC images to fill even the most cavernous disk...
The base Server OS image is about 3 GB. My SQL 2008 beta is about 1 GB.
Biztalk's a lot bigger.
They all base off the same server image, so it's not so bad.
> BTW... it's possible to rip DVDs??
Um, sure. You know those .iso files you see from time to time....
> > The quad core 2.4GHz is around R2000, the quad 2.66 is R4500. (The dual
core
> > 3.0 is R1800, Dual core 3.16 is R2500)
> > I'll leave you do do the curency conversions if you like (current
exchange
> > rate - R16.1 = 1 pound)
>
> Doesn't mean you can buy it for that over here.
Probably cheaper. Hardware's notoriously expensive here.
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>> It would *hardly* be the first time a superior technology has vanished
>> for reasons unrelated to technology... sadly... :-(
>
> I think the lack of ability to do multiuser work and the lack of ability
> to get beyond TV resolution were at least as deadly as Commodore marketing.
>
> These improvements were added after it was too late.
The Amiga has always been able to work at resolutions other than TV.
That's just the default settings.
Commodore had a new chipset in development that was wildly ahead of its
time - true 24-bit graphics, in an era when the PCs were just beginning
to experiment with more than 16-colour video. Realtime blitting of
24-bit graphics - apparently they had running silicon. Beaffed up sound
capabilities too. But, for whatever reason, the project was shelved.
There then followed a series of phantom products that never actually
made it to marked, until eventually CBM just ran out of cash and shut
down. Several people bought the technology, continued to ship it, but
didn't "do" anything with it, until eventually the PC marked was so far
ahead of anything the aging Amiga could offer that it was pretty much
game over.
I've yet to see any group of people as fanatical about a technology as
the Amiga users though. Everybody seemed to utterly convinced the Amiga
would fight back and retake the world, any day now... it just never
came. Interesting social dynamic there...
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>>> [What's it made of? Lead??]
>>
>> Silicon, mostly. a few threads of gold, maybe a ceramic outer case,
>> with a very small possibility of a heat-conducting metal pad. :D
>
> AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+?
I have one o' those :)
> Have you *seen* the heat sink??
I still haven't opened my computer case since I got it...
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>>> Or how about PNGs from every single POV-Ray animation you do,
>>> including test renders? :)
>>
>> Well, given that a typical PNG file is between 1 KB and 500 KB,
>> that's... A LOT OF FREAKIN' FRAMES!!
>
> You never did big renders, with frames +1MB?
If I'm rendering something in an animation, it's to put it on a DVD.
DVDs only support extremely low spatial resolutions. (Even with the new
HD technologies which will one day become commonly available, resolution
is still extremely low.) Small images don't take up much space.
Now, large stills for Zazzle can get pretty big...
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>> BTW... it's possible to rip DVDs??
>
> Um, sure. You know those .iso files you see from time to time....
OK, I rephrase: Can you actually *do* something useful with this data
once you have it?
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> [What's it made of? Lead??]
>>
>> Silicon, mostly. a few threads of gold, maybe a ceramic outer case,
>> with a very small possibility of a heat-conducting metal pad. :D
>
> AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+?
That, too.
> Have you *seen* the heat sink??
He was talking about the little metal pad on the top of the CPU. The
one, that connects the CPU to the heat sink.
> It's bigger than the damn CPU - by at least an order of magnitude!
Yes. OTOH, my C2D T5600's heat sink is 'bout same size as the CPU
itself. It's connected to 'bout same-sized radiator with heat pipes.
Then again, it's installed in a laptop...
> I'm presuming the whole thing is encased in solid metal to promote heat
> dissapation or something...
The heat sink usually is one part of solid metal. But it's still is it's
own part and not part of the CPU.
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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> OK, I rephrase: Can you actually *do* something useful with this data
> once you have it?
Yes, like burning it to another disc... Additionally, the DRM in DVD
movies has been broken since 1999.
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>> I'm presuming the whole thing is encased in solid metal to promote
>> heat dissapation or something...
>
> The heat sink usually is one part of solid metal. But it's still is it's
> own part and not part of the CPU.
No, I meant I think the CPU die is encased in solid metal to promote
heat transfer from it to the heat sink.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> BTW... it's possible to rip DVDs??
>>
>> Um, sure. You know those .iso files you see from time to time....
>
> OK, I rephrase: Can you actually *do* something useful with this data
> once you have it?
Like creating MP3 from a music DVD?
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:47f1497f$1@news.povray.org...
> >> BTW... it's possible to rip DVDs??
> >
> > Um, sure. You know those .iso files you see from time to time....
>
> OK, I rephrase: Can you actually *do* something useful with this data
> once you have it?
Mount it as a virtual dvd and treat it as if it was a disk. (Daemon tools,
etc)
Most DVD writing software will let you take an iso and burn to a DVD so that
the burnt disk looks like the original.
I wouldn't exactly be storing ripped DVDs if I couldn't do anything with
them...
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