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As I understand it, although you need a solid amount of memory (512MB for any type of large WU), it's not the quantity that matters so much as how much you can pump through the pipe between the processor and the RAM per unit time. I wouldn't be surprised if there's no speed difference between...

I'm very curious to see what the new PowerMacs will be like. I'll never buy one --I'm sure I could probably build some sort of ridiculous system with dual dual-core Opterons and four times as much RAM for less money, but I bet they'll set a new standard for prebuilt highend computers. And I...

It will be very interesting to see how quickly A64's can finish QMDs relative to P4's. P5-133XL said they were memory bandwidth limited, if so, it seems reasonable to assume that 939-pin machines should be outstanding at them.

Well said. Which leads me to the fact that I honestly can't think of anything that I do for which hard drive performance is even a concern. 1. Since I moved to Linux, my applications don't swap out just because I alt-tab away from them. 2. I don't care how long file copies and such take...

Well, I don't build a lot of PCs, but I do build a half-dozen to a dozen a year for family and friends. I've definitely fallen into some very specific component habits: Cases: The SLK3000B, everytime since it's been available. It's the tiniest bit pricier than the cheapest crap, but so far...

Hmm. I just checked the RAM in the System dialog and it says the system has 480MB. There are definitely 2 256MB DIMMs in it though. Integrated graphics reserving 32MB perhaps? That's irritating... No QMD's for me I suppose :(.

Should an 800Mhz FSB P4 2.6C be producing only ~150pts/day with -advmethods and large WUs? I'm pretty sure I read earlier in this thread that it should be doing significantly better than that. I've checked that everything is configured correctly and it seems to be. For the life of me I can't...

I'll just link the most interesting page of SR's review for the lazier among us. I think Will's 'astounding' is not a bad description.

I'm in Ottawa visiting family for two weeks. There have been a lot of breakins in my neighbourhood in Halifax lately so I had to shut down two A64 3000+'s and an Athlon XP 2500+ to hide them while I was away :(. However, I did manage to gain the services of a local P4 3.8E, so it's not all bad...

Exactly. And since uniprocessor servers aren't often packed with gobs and gobs of RAM, using registered memory is an unnecessary expense. It might also have something to do with the extent to which the onboard memory controller has matured. Just about all the old restrictions are gone now...

That Squeezebox product looks terrific ddrueding.

It looks like this was all a rumour. AMD has denied that they are going to stop shipping 939-pin Opterons, maintaining that they'll be available through 2006.

It is a shame though. The Opteron 165 was going to give me the opportunity to upgrade to dual-core sooner than I otherwise might have.

Many types of mathematical problems possess asymmetrical difficulty. It's possible that it is very easy to check if any given fold is correct, but relatively difficult to generate a correct fold in the first place.

While I don't own a laptop bag, I was thinking about getting one for a while. I have some links to places that are well recommended around the net that I gathered over the course of idle research over two or three months.. If I was going to buy anything, I would probably buy a simple sleeve...

The Fujifilm F10 is the pick of the litter for low light purposes --if you're looking for a digicam. It's also a very good camera in general.

The linux packaged versions might be nicer. The Portage package automatically sets up multiple directories for multiple clients, includes a configuration script that sets up all the clients (if you have more than one on the machine), and includes an init script to run it as a daemon. The whole...

I find I can customize Firefox to be much more out of my way than Mozilla. I think I've mentioned it before, but I dump all the buttons and pull down menus that I use into the menu bar (buttons to the left of File, Edit, etc and search and address to the right), kill all the toolbars, enable...

I have to wait for my Linux distribution to package it. I'm still too much of a pussy to compile anything but a kernel myself. I will add that I'm very excited and would love to participate!

I think it's driven by the fact that the Xeon is getting its ass handed to it in the server space. Performance, cost, heat, whatever yanks your crank the Opteron is the better choice. Once Dell starts shipping Opterons, their Intel-only, preferred pricing is out the Window, so why not just go...

Well, my fileserver is back up. I reinstalled the OS and folding works again. On the other hand, my other fileserver is down because I decided to reinstall the OS on it too and I haven't finished yet. Eventually I'll get everything together :).

I'll second Merc's last comment. Those AMD ATI integrated graphics boards are good values.

I might even consider dropping down to the 754-pin 64-bit Sempron 2500+ Adcadet. It is also a 256K cache Sempron, and is an excellent value.

Ya, cron is good :). I think my next mission is going to be to learn to use awk and sed. Those look like very useful, if complicated tools. And tab-completion is great Handruin. I can't live without it anymore.

BAH, my folding machines are dropping like flies. No sooner does F@H decide it just doesn't want to run on one of my fileservers, but my girlfriend discovers the speaker out doesn't work on her replacement mobo. Her franken-dell is currently in pieces (Would you believe I had to wire another...

Schneier is one of the best tech commentators out there. His day job is as a Cryptographer and CEO of CounterPane a technology security company. He has a way of cutting through the crap to the heart of the issues --as the above article in Wired demonstrates. He has a monthly newsletter...

Confessions of a CLI neophyte: A couple weeks ago I finally got around to looking up how to do for loops in Bash. It's actually made my life noticeably better, saving me at least several minutes of monotous work nearly everyday. It allows me to quickly perform tasks that a GUI is ridiculously...

I've always used Fortron power supplies. The FSP300THN (their 300W ATX12V 2.0 supply) has always been dead silent in my configurations. They aren't overpriced and they're rock solid. I'm sure the Seasonics are nice, but I can't see myself ever spending anything close to that for a quality...

My disdain for Sony has reached remarkable levels. Obviously there are select pieces of hardware that I like.

Although my disdain for them has now reached remarkable levels, I do have to admit to having a serious attraction to the firewire connected DVD changer that comes with this system. You can fill it with CDs and it will rip them all, switching through them autmoatically. It can also burn DVDs...

I've never heard if it myself Cougtek.

Thanks again i. Have a good night (or day wherever you might be). I must sleep now...

Ya. Here's the Stanford executable, installed in a subdirectory in my home folder: gilbo@HarmolodiaServer01 ~/foldingathome $ ./FAH502-Linux.exe -/bin/bash: ./FAH502-Linux.exe: No such file or directory The directory and the file, respectively, have the following permissions...

ls -ld: HarmolodiaServer01 foldingathome # ls FAH504-Linux.exe HarmolodiaServer01 foldingathome # ls -ld drwxr-xr-x 2 gilbo users 3 Nov 15 14:03 . The Gentoo package is the 5.02 version. The 502 Stanford version gives: HarmolodiaServer01 foldingathome # ./FAH502-Linux.exe bash...

Thinking it was a bad executable, I redownloaded it. Now I get: HarmolodiaServer01 foldingathome # ./FAH504-Linux.exe bash: ./FAH504-Linux.exe: No such file or directory HarmolodiaServer01 foldingathome # ls -l total 248 -rwxr-xr-x 1 gilbo users 250964 Oct 18 19:34 FAH504-Linux.exe As you can...

Permissions are okay i. HarmolodiaServer01 foldingathome # ls -l total 0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 gilbo users 0 Nov 15 08:23 FAH504-Linux.exe Here's the strace error. strace ./FAH504-Linux.exe execve("./FAH504-Linux.exe", ["./FAH504-Linux.exe"], [/* 26 vars */]) = -1 ENOEXEC (Exec format error) dup(2)...

There's the command, and the following line i: gilbo@HarmolodiaServer01 ~/foldingathome $ ./FAH504-Linux.exe gilbo@HarmolodiaServer01 ~/foldingathome $ There's no delay, no hang, nothing. It instantly returns me to the prompt giving no output. ps aux and top show no processes that I can...

Thanks i. That's an excellent explanation. And it makes perfect sense. @Cougtek, that's what I've done, but I'm not getting any love :(. It just does nothing, leaves no process running, outputs nothing --no matter what config options I've run.

It's worth mentioning that nothing happens with all the options. -configonly, -help they all produce no output and leave no running processes that I can find. It's all very strange. All I did when I rebooted was add UDF support to the kernel so I could rip a DVD! Bizarre.

I don't think any of the additional files appear until you run the client for the first time. At the moment it's just FAH504-Linux.exe so I don't think write permissions would be a problem unless the binary writes to itself. Yep. In fact if I use the ./FAH504-Linux.exe method I can use my...

I tried downloading the binary from Stanford's site (previously I was using the gentoo package). I encounter the same problem. I cannot run it; I recieve: gilbo@HarmolodiaServer01 ~ $ FAH504-Linux.exe -bash: FAH504-Linux.exe: command not found However, following this link and using...

I think that, maybe, the client is not considered executable. Does this make sense to anyone who knows linux better than I do? It has execute permissions enabled for it, but perhaps that is not enough.

ACK! I rebooted one of my PCs and it stopped folding. I couldn't restart the client either. Even uninstalling, deleting the folders, and reinstalling didn't fix it. There are no error messages in the log. Nothing's happening. When I run initfolding to configure the client it errors on line...

One thing to be very careful about is that most UPS manufacturers take into account the battery capacity when designing the cooling for the inverter. If you stick a higher capacity battery in a UPS that isn't designed for it, bad things can happen when the inverter runs for longer than the...

I'm installing it now. I need a basic text editor for programming, which I've just started learning. I decided to go with Vim over emacs. Mostly because of Mercutio honestly. I have no experience with either. I'm starting with Java. As far as I understand it, Vim is modified with scripts...

Welcome HTMK. I also registered over here when SR became a little less appetizing in some respects. Of course, I still post semi-regularly at SR as well. I was just a lurker at SR when everyone here frequented the place, but I remembered the creation of this place, read the posts here...

You know what I got to do for 6 hours yesterday? I got to recertify my girlfriend's copy of Windows for her Dell after I replaced the mobo. I rebooted the computer after installing the motherboard and I was locked out until I recertified. Of course I couldn't do this over the internet because...

Zelda's a very pretty cat Handruin :).

The SI cards seem to be inexpensive, popular and well supported. The 3114 series chipset is the most common I believe.

Just to make clear: I mean that Canon sells a 15mm Fisheye, not a 180 degree FOV. I'll just add, to make this post a little more useful, that FOV on a fisheye differs slightly from FOV on a rectilinear lense of the equivalent focal length. There's an excellent article online which demonstrates...