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Random tip.

If you buy the super-cheap Office Home and Student 2010 key card (no disk), the disk from an Office Home and Business 2010 will work fine, and give you 30-day trials of the rest of the software.
 
What I find interesting with Itanium, is that I can't find anyone selling Itanium based workstations? HP discontinued theirs in '04, Dell in '02, Supermicro (all Itanium based products) sometime in '06...

IMO Doesn't spell great news for the longevity of the platform... Mind you same could be said for SPARC as well, as Sun discontinued theirs approx 2 yr ago.

The only workstations that I can find to be easily purchased are i7, Xeon or Opteron based, no one appears to be doing non-x86 based workstations...
 
Chewy509 said:
What I find interesting with Itanium, is that I can't find anyone selling Itanium based workstations? HP discontinued theirs in '04, Dell in '02, Supermicro (all Itanium based products) sometime in '06...

IMO Doesn't spell great news for the longevity of the platform... Mind you same could be said for SPARC as well, as Sun discontinued theirs approx 2 yr ago.

The only workstations that I can find to be easily purchased are i7, Xeon or Opteron based, no one appears to be doing non-x86 based workstations...
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Yep, HP is the only remaining OEM of Itanium based systems (perhaps SuperMicro is still also on-board?), in their Integrity line of enterprise servers.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/26/itanium_hp_last_standing/
 
On an IA64 machine / OS does it run x86 code as fast as an x64 machine, or at all? For some reason i remember the performance sucking or not working well at all for non native things.

Edit Read the slashdot thing, funny
 
I don't think they run x86 code at all. They exist for computationally intense operations and apparently the architecture leans heavily on RAM and various levels of cache memory. Basically it's a chip one might use (in quantity) as the basis for a mainframe.
 
MaxBurn said:
On an IA64 machine / OS does it run x86 code as fast as an x64 machine, or at all? For some reason i remember the performance sucking or not working well at all for non native things.
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Only through a software layer in the more recent chips. Earlier chips did it through hardware. Apparently it sucks.
 
Stereodude said:
Only through a software layer in the more recent chips. Earlier chips did it through hardware. Apparently it sucks.
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From a HP document I once saw, on a 1GHz Itanium 2, you would roughly see performance akin to a Pentium MMX @ 233MHz. Recently models dropped hardware emulation in favour of software emulation, since the same 1GHz Itanium 2 could emulate quicker in software (closer to a P2@450MHz).
 
OK photo people: I want cheap frames in weird sizes. The best deal I can find is usually from Adorama Camera, but their shipping is pretty bad, and some sizes they don't have at all (e.g. 10x15).
 
In the 6-7 years I've been taking pictures I've made three prints. Two of which got special frames (ie not cheap) and one isn't framed.
 
Two were for other people and the one I never framed was more of a test to see how it would print. I've never hung it on my wall, though I'd like to some day if I can find a frame to fit the odd size.
 
I'm now the official owner of my car and I have no outstanding financial debt to the credit world.
 
Mercutio said:
OK photo people: I want cheap frames in weird sizes. The best deal I can find is usually from Adorama Camera, but their shipping is pretty bad, and some sizes they don't have at all (e.g. 10x15).
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Could you just get the next normal size up and use some paper of an appropriate colour as a background?
 
I looked into this about eight months ago for some PA art I got but I really didn't find framing stuff either. Thing is for a cartoon or something you need a whole series of frames and for one or two the price isn't bad but for ten things start looking rather unfriendly. Came up with two or three sites, will see if I can dig them up tonight.
 
ddrueding said:
Wow. Congrats! I'm in for ~$240k on the house and $30k on my car. At least I got one car killed off.
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I'll probably be looking at a house and other things in the next year which might put me back into debt, but for now I'll just save.
 
LunarMist said:
:rotfl: I see plenty of really nice frames. Is your budget limited?
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I have lots of wall space and many of my items are weird, different sizes. Like, I have a 9x13 item sitting here. It's just lame to have a choice between a $12 frame at retail or a $4 frame from the internet that has $11 worth of shipping attached. Where's the $6 frame with $3 worth of shipping?

Oh, and congratulations on debt-free status. Personally, I'm allergic to interest payments, but it's a wonderful sense of freedom to know that all the money you have is actually yours.
 
Oh my. I was thinking of the custom framing that is a tad more costly. ;)
 
More UPS brilliance... A package shipped UPS 3 Day Select from California to Michigan.

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LunarMist said:
Oh my. I was thinking of the custom framing that is a tad more costly. ;)
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I did say lots of cheap frames, didn't I? By my count I have 37 items I'd like to put up and even at $12 - $15 a pop that's going to add up, even setting aside the $250 I already spent for stuff I already put on my walls.
 
However, it may still be better than that awful Fedex-Smartpost free shipping deal commonly offered. :queen:
 
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