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I'm still not convinced there is an advantage that is effected by this tweak. Drives fill from the faster outside tracks in (or at least that's my understanding...) so what advantage is there to artificially shrinking the drive if you only have 200-300GB of stuff ... it going to be on the faster outer edge anyway (regardless of how much extra free space there is to rattle around in).Thing is, you don't - necessarily - know how your OS/filesystem choice is going to distribute data, at least not if you make a single big partition. If you only make a 300gig partition on a 1TB drive, I dunno if the LBA-limit trick is going to have any advantage, though-Stoic Joker (November 19, 2009, 12:36 PM)
Yup, the VM app still has to allocate from what the OS makes available to it.OT (a bit) - what settings are people using for the XP VM? I'm at default, which assigns 512MB of RAM. Performance is not brisk!-Darwin (November 19, 2009, 08:12 AM)
I wonder how that ties in with the whole 32 vs 64-bit thing - i.e.
if on 32-bit OS, does that amount come out of the allocated 4GB memory?-tomos (November 19, 2009, 08:58 AM)
That's why I never upgraded to ACDSee Pro version 2 - and I certainly won't be going to 3.That last decent version of ACDSee was... let me see if I recall correctly... version 2.44 or something, I believe. Back then they had a LEAN_AND_MEAN (and pretty darn fast, app-load as well as pic-load) application that did what it was supposed to, and did it well. Then they started adding features that didn't belong in that application. Same story as with NERO Burning ROM.
I know a lot of people like ACDSee and I used it for a long time but every version they produce has loads of bugs in it and most of these 'upgrades' seem to me to be most bug fixes and new bugs. Call me cynical if you like ....-Carol Haynes (November 18, 2009, 10:45 AM)
Without any technical details, typical reports from professional programmers are such that they experience some kind of constraints when they migrate from Java to CPP and some kind of relief when they migrate from CPP to Java. Well, those feelings are not permanent, and generally speaking migration is not difficult due to certain language similarities (object-oriented approach, syntax, etc.)That would be constraints when moving TO java, and relief when going BACK TO C++-sciagent (November 17, 2009, 05:16 PM)
about the procedural software used in animusic/autodrums:AniMusic is kinda cute, but I remember being pretty disappointed years ago when I first saw "Pipe Dream" and realized that it was pre-rendered. I've always been a fan of realtime demoscene stuff
http://www.animusic....company/software.php-mouser (November 17, 2009, 09:30 AM)
No no, it's the hardware's fault if there isn't proper linux drivers for it!It's got to be hardware related. I build my own machines and tend to stock them with the fastest and fattest videocards, but Ubuntu has rarely liked them since 6.10. Fedora, however, loves them and is as hell, as does sidux (a debian-based distro). Go figure. Good luck!-zridling (November 17, 2009, 08:47 AM)
That sounds like software related-Lashiec (November 17, 2009, 08:49 AM)
</troll>#7 - Nice to see Microsoft has developed their very own backdoor exploit for Windows.From what I heard from people who took a look at this, it's mostly a collection of SysInternals tools and a frontend - big f'ing deal. Haven't bothered to look at it myself though (considering that I don't exactly have legitimate access to it), so it could be worse.
I know I'll sleep better at night knowing such a thing exists. Especially since it will only be made available to duly authorized members of the law enforcement community - whom experience has shown we can completely trust to never abuse such technologies.-40hz (November 15, 2009, 03:52 PM)
Actually, what this person says applies to Linux, Mac, Windows, etc.... He's probably still using DOS and playing pong on his Atari 'Home Pong' console.Heh.-enar (November 16, 2009, 04:42 PM)
I'm still using MSVS2005 which has the option (enabled by default) Make Win98 compatable exe. So MSVS2008 calls it something else (and disables it ('bout time really)) ... or am I totally of base.Is it "Make Win98 compatible", or is it the linker/optimization setting called "Optimize for Win98"? The latter just sets FileAlign to 4096 bytes instead of the (depending on linker version) default of 512.-Stoic Joker (November 16, 2009, 06:14 AM)
Yes NT4 sp6a, I'd assumed it didn't matter (I never code for anything older then 2k either) but the error was something to the effect of "Program is not a valid Windows NT executable"I'm thinking that might have to do with the "image load configuration" (which only XP-and-later support) that later versions of Visual Studio add to PE executables; should be ignored on older Windows versions, but some versions are preeeetty picky/peculiar about how they validate executables prior to running.-Stoic Joker (November 15, 2009, 03:56 PM)
i.e. the fact that "32 bits can only address 4Gb at any one time" should not restrict a 32 bits O/S from handling more than 4Gb physical memory.Except buggy drivers that assume that PHYSICALADDRESS.HighPart is always zero - and those did exist, and Microsoft used that as reason for changing XP SP1 from supporting 4GB of physical memory (located wherever) to only supporting the low 4GB of physical memory.-tslim (November 10, 2009, 07:18 AM)
We admittedly do have creatures that we don't want to keep as pets (poisonous spiders and snakes, sharks, crocodiles) but these are much better than bears (and a lot of people I can think of)I'd sure as hell rather have bears and fast internet access than slow + capped + filtered internet and all the nasty critters Australia has to offer-tsaint (November 09, 2009, 05:38 PM)
