smartphone unlocking

Eto yung procedure ginagamit ko noon(40> minutes):

Good luck openlining your SAP, and at your own risk.

requirements:
pls download, extract files and put them
in a temp folder.

http://203.172.17.148/temp/master/SAP1.6.zip
http://203.172.17.148/temp/master/SAP1.3.zip
http://203.172.17.148/temp/master/NK.zip

1. if you're using Smart 1.7 downgrade to SAP1.6 first
(install on normal mode). finish until you can
normally use the phone on Smart 1.6 OS.

--below are edited text from Mar's Procedure--

2. Put your phone in bootloader mode and connect to
computer then run the SAP 1.6.0.08 update, pause after
it detect the ROM versions (old and new must both be
1.6.0.08 or yyyy to 1.6), overwrite the NK.nbf file in
the C:/Program Files/RUU/ folder with the edited
NK.nbf file (extracted nk.zip). Press "upgrade"

The upgrade should go normally....after finishing the
upgrade you may encounter the phone not powering up
when you press the power button, don't panic just go
to bootloader mode (press rec + pwr) and run the SAP
1.3.7.8

3. Install Qtek 1.5
http://www.smartphonefrance.com/rom.asp

4. Run SPVUnlock2 (get it from Quick Downloads) on
canary mode if you want to get the unlocking code. Be
sure to quit WCESCOMM.exe on Task Manager (PC) Insert
non-smart SIM, enter unlocking code, restart.

You have now an openline phone plus a better ROM.


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My observation:

in order to unlock your smartphone, you have to downgrade bootloader. qtek rom carries the lowest bootloader version.

smart rom 1.7(smart amazing default rom version, bootleader 1.0.9)
in order to get the lowest bootloader(which unlocking/openlining your phone is possible). downgrade to smart rom 1.6, 12 minutes
smart rom 1.3, 12 minutes
install qtek 7070(boot loader of 1.0.7), 12 minutes
then spvunlock. a few seconds


2nd approach(<1 minute)

download handyspvutility

http://www.airfagev.com/forum_view.asp?nav=1&msg_id=158687

i just have recently discovered this utility this month of july from http://www.airfagev.com

handyspv utility has a "downgrade bootloader to 0.93"

with this functionality, i perform downgrade bootloader to 0.93, then run spvunlock

downgrade boot loader, only took 2 seconds

then unlock takes only a mere 5 seconds something

the whole unlocking procedure is less than a minute

whereas on my first attempt in unlocking my own cellphone, it took something 40 minutes something.


The advantage of second approach in unlocking is that you don't have to change rom, smart rom is intact, your contacts won't be erase. the only procedure need to do is downgrade bootloader to 0.93, then unlocking will be possible.

My two brothers also have smartphones.

13 minutes:
the first one i first experimented the handyspv: downgrading to 0.93 bootloader, change smart rom to qtek rom, run spvunlock.

1 minute:
to my second brother, i experimented to just downgrade to 0.93 bootloader, then just directly run spvunlock. it took all in all, less than a minute. one good thing about this approach, smart rom is still intact, nothing is erased, yet he can insert any kind of sim, globe, sun, etc.

Slashdot | Choice of Language for Large-Scale Web Apps?: "You are mixing up the language with the modules. There is a reason why PHP comes without all those additional modules... so you can decide what you want it to do. If you want to add all those modules to PHP and make it do all that, then you have to do it yourself. But the base install does not include them. In fact it no longer includes MySQL support in it and that too must be added as a module.

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And as far as worst security history, you again confuse bad programming with the language it is written in. For this analogy, C# and VB still hold that title. Just because the language allows you to make mistakes in your programming, does not mean it is the languages fault when you create a recursive function that loops perpetually.

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You can certainly make a large, high traffic site in python. But not with zope. Zope is brutally slow, and the only thing you can do about it is shove a cache infront of it, which does nothing to help speed up user-specific content.

Just use a decent python web framework with a real webserver, zope is a waste of time.



A solution I like is to write a Python backend that is exposed to the frontend as XML-RPC. Then use the language your designers find easiest to work in for front-end coding.. usually PHP.

Python is great for the backend because it has good namespace support which helps a lot for big complex programs. PHP on the other hand is well known and extremely easy for doing various web-scripting type tasks. I have a little PHP function that gets called by the PHP server for every page (without needing to be in the code exposed to the PHP coders) that simply passes the page inputs to Python over XML-RPC and puts the response into a global variable. Then the PHP coders jut display the results however needs to be done based on the inputs and outputs.

Some nice benefits of such a split system is that it's easy to keep UI logic sepperate from application logic and it's easy to split your application up over multiple servers so that it can scale to any load. For example you might have two PHP servers, three Python servers, and a DB server dividing the load. Normal load balancing techniques work just fine for deciding how the machines talk to each other. Pretty nice to be able to just throw another server in where it's needed if you suddenly find a 9/11-type day where your site is getting unexpectedly high loads.

Of course you can split your processing up in more levels if you need to. I like to abstract out all my queries into their own XML-RPC interface that sits in front of the DB so as to not allow direct access to the DB for security reasons. Anyone trying to hack the DB would have to use my stored queries and work through my XML-RPC interface rather than being able to access the DB directly. If your dealing with sensitive information it's just another layer of protection. If you have to access third-party systems that use some unstandardized method of communicating then it can help to keep your code clean if you create a proxy interface between those systems and your own that speaks XML-RPC. This way the code for speaking to that other system is a completely sepperate code base and your main code base is kept clean.

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System Administrator Appreciation Day Friday July 28th 2006

System Administrator Appreciation Day Friday July 28th 2006: "Show your appreciation
Next year, Friday, July 28th, 2006, is the 7th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication.

Let's face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year. This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across the globe, will be showered with expensive sports cars and large piles of cash in appreciation of their diligent work. But seriously, we are asking for a nice token gift and some public acknowledgement. It's the least you could do. Consider all the daunting tasks and long hours (weekends too.) Let's be honest, sometimes we don't know our System Administrators as well as they know us. Remember this is one day to recognize your System Administrator for their workplace contributions and to promote professional excellence. Thank them for all the things they do for you and your business."

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Whirlpool Forums - Thread: Linksys WAG54G v2

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Can the wag54g act as a vpn endpoint or only vpn passthrough ?
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Reply to this post | Send WhiM
posted 2005-Apr-24, 9:53 am
User #50017 • 82 posts
Rhod Brown
Linksys
Representative
Hi Guys,
For those of you interested, the source code for the Australian version of the WAG54Gv2 firmware is now available:

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Cheers,

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User #50017 • 82 posts
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Linksys
Representative
Hi Penguin,
Yes, the WAG54G can act as an IPSEC VPN endpoint for up to 5 tunnels.

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PCWorld.com - AOpen's Even Smaller Pentium M-Based Desktop Cube: "With the latest generation of Pentium 4 desktop processors from Intel capable of consuming up to 115 watts of power during peak operation, sophisticated and often noisy cooling fans are needed to prevent the inside of the PC from melting into an expensive pile of sludge. The noise from those cooling fans is hard to avoid, especially if the PC is being used to replay a video or to work in a quiet office. Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon 64 desktop chips are a little cooler but can still reach peak power consumption levels of up to 89 watts while processing demanding applications.

Intel's Pentium M processor, however, consumes only 27 watts during peak operation and still delivers performance comparable to that of the Pentium 4 processors. Intel is eventually expected to make a derivative of the Pentium M the centerpiece of its processor architecture for desktop, notebook, and server chips, due to its power-friendly design."

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backup sql server database

How to backup to and restore from network drives, mapped drives or network shares?

SQL Server cannot read mapped drives. In your backup and restore commands always refer to the network drive or network share using UNC path. UNC path has the following format: \\MachineName\ShareName or \\MachineName\DriveLetter$\Path

Here is an example to backup the pubs database to a share called 'AllBackups' on a remote machine named 'BackupServer':

BACKUP DATABASE Pubs TO DISK='\\BackupServer\AllBackups\Pubs.BAK'

To backup pubs database to a the admin share 'D$' on a remote server named 'BackupServer':

BACKUP DATABASE Pubs TO DISK='\\BackupServer\D$\MSSQL7\BACKUP\Pubs.BAK'

For network backups and restores to work, make sure your SQL Server and SQL Agent services are NOT running under system account. These services must run using a domain account and this domain account must have read and write permissions on the network share or drive.

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Tech Guide: Speed up Windows XP: ZDNet Australia: Reviews: Software: OS

Tech Guide: Speed up Windows XP: ZDNet Australia: Reviews: Software: OS:





Tech Guide: Speed up Windows XP
By Preston Gralla, Special to CNET.com
16 November 2004

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Speed up Windows XP If getting in and out of XP has you drumming your fingers, check out our tips to make starting and stopping your system a much faster process.

Tip 1: Eliminate programs that run at start-up
Tip 2: Speed up shutdown times
Tip 3: Disable services that run at start-up

Tip 1: Eliminate programs that run at start-up

Stopping programs from running at start-up is especially daunting because there is no single place you can go to halt them all. Some run because they're in the Startup folder, others because they're part of logon scripts, others because of Registry settings, and so on. But with a little bit of perseverance, you should be able to keep them from running.

# Start by cleaning out your Startup folder. Find it in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Start Menu\Programs\Startup, where username is your Windows logon name. Delete the shortcuts of any programs you don't want to run on start-up. As with any shortcuts, when you delete them, you're deleting only the shortcut, not the program itself. (You can also clear out the start-up items by going to Start > Programs > Startup, then right-clicking items you want to remove.)


# Next, clean out your Scheduled Tasks folder. Go to C:\Windows\Tasks, and delete the shortcuts of any programs that you don't want to run automatically on a schedule.

Note: You can bypass all the programs in your Startup folder on an as-needed basis. To stop XP from loading any programs in the Startup folder, hold down the Shift key during bootup. No programs in the Startup folder will run, but the items will still remain there so that they will start up as they would normally the next time you boot.


Using the system configuration utility
Taking the previous steps will stop the obvious programs from running at start-up, but it won't kill them all. The best tool for disabling hidden programs that run on start-up is the System Configuration Utility. To run it, type msconfig at a command prompt, and press Enter. (If that doesn't work, first do a search for msconfig.exe; when you find the file, double-click it.)

# To stop a program from running at start-up, go to the Startup tab in this utility, and uncheck the box next to the program. It can sometimes be difficult to understand what programs are listed on the Startup tab. Some, such as America Online, are clearly labeled. But often, you'll see a phrase or collection of letters, such as fs20. That's the name of the running file -- such as fs20.exe, which is Free Surfer mk II, an excellent free pop-up killer.


# To get more information about a listing, expand the width of the Command column near the top of the Startup tab. Expand it enough and you'll see the start-up command that the program issues, including its location, such as C:\Program Files\Free Surfer\fs20.exe. The directory location should be another hint to help you know the name of the program.


# When stopping programs from running at start-up, it's best to stop them one at a time rather than in groups. You want to make sure that you're not causing any system problems by stopping them. So stop one, then restart your PC. If it runs fine, then stop another and restart. Continue doing this until you've cleared all the programs you don't want to run automatically.


Each time you uncheck a box and restart your PC, you'll get a warning that you've used the System Configuration Utility to disable a program from starting automatically. If you don't want to see that warning, disable it by checking the box in the dialog itself.

After you've used the system configuration utility to identify programs that run on start-up, you may want to try disabling them from with the programs themselves. So run each program that starts automatically, and see if you can find a setting that allows you to prevent it from running on start-up.
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Tip 2: Speed up shutdown times

It's not only start-up that you'd like to speed up; you can also make sure that your system shuts down faster. If shutting down XP takes what seems to be an inordinate amount of time, here are a couple of steps you can take to speed up the shutdown process:

# Don't have XP clear your paging file at shutdown. For security reasons, you can have XP clear your paging file (pagefile.sys) of its contents whenever you shut down. Your paging file is used to store temporary files and data, but when your system shuts down, information stays in the file. Some people prefer to have the paging file cleared at shutdown because sensitive information such as unencrypted passwords sometimes ends up in the file. However, clearing the paging file can slow shutdown times significantly, so if extreme security isn't a high priority, you might not want to clear it. To shut down XP without clearing your paging file, run the Registry Editor (click Start > Run, then type regedit< in the Run box) and go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management


# Change the value of ClearPageFileAtShutdown to 0. Close the Registry, and restart your computer. Whenever you turn off XP from now on, the paging file won't be cleared, and you should be able to shut down more quickly.

Note: Please be careful when editing the Registry; you can do a lot of damage here. Don't change or delete anything unless you know exactly what it is.

Songs of the Century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Songs of the Century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Title Artist
1. "Over the Rainbow" Judy Garland
2. "White Christmas" Bing Crosby
3. "This Land Is Your Land" Woody Guthrie
4. "Respect" Aretha Franklin
5. "American Pie" Don McLean
6. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" The Andrews Sisters
7. West Side Story (Album) Original Cast
8. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" Billy Murray
9. "You've Lost That Lovin Feelin" The Righteous Brothers
10. "The Entertainer" Scott Joplin
11. "In the Mood" Glenn Miller Orchestra
12. "Rock Around the Clock" Bill Haley & The Comets
13. "When the Saints Go Marching In" Louis Armstrong
14. "You Are My Sunshine" Jimmie Davis
15. "Mack the Knife" Bobby Darin
16. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" The Rolling Stones
17. "Take the 'A' Train" Duke Ellington Orchestra
18. "Blueberry Hill" Fats Domino
19. "God Bless America " Kate Smith
20. "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa's Band
21. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Marvin Gaye
22. "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay" Otis Redding
23. "I Left My Heart In San Francisco " Tony Bennett
24. "Good Vibrations" The Beach Boys
25. "Stand By Me" Ben E. King
26. "Stormy Weather" Lena Horne
27. "Johnny B. Goode" Chuck Berry
28. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" The Beatles
29. " Midnight Train to Georgia " Gladys Knight & the Pips
30. "Imagine" John Lennon
31. "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" Gene Autry
32. "The Twist" Chubby Checker
33. "Happy Trails" Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
34. "Your Cheatin' Heart" Hank Williams
35. "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" Fisk Jubilee Singers
36. The Sound of Music (Album) Original Cast
37. "'Round Midnight" Thelonius Monk
38. "What's Love Got to Do With It" Tina Turner
39. "Over There" The American Quartet
40. "Stardust" Hoagy Carmichael
41. "Ain't Misbehavin'" Fats Waller
42. "Georgia On My Mind" Ray Charles
43. "Oh Pretty Woman" Roy Orbison
44. "Every Breath You Take" The Police
45. "My Girl" The Temptations
46. "Hotel California" The Eagles
47. "Happy Days Are Here Again" Ben Selvin Orchestra
48. "Stand By Your Man" Tammy Wynette
49. "Take Five" Dave Brubeck
50. "America the Beautiful" Louise Homer
51. "When A Man Loves A Woman" Percy Sledge
52. "Light My Fire" The Doors
53. "Stairway to Heaven" Led Zeppelin
54. "Sweet Georgia Brown" Ben Bernie Orchestra
55. "When You Wish Upon A Star" Cliff Edwards
56. "Yesterday" / "Act Naturally" The Beatles
57. "Louie Louie" The Kingsmen
58. "God Bless the Child" Billie Holiday
59. "Born in the U.S.A." Bruce Springsteen
60. "The Girl from Ipanema" Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto
61. "I Walk the Line" Johnny Cash
62. "The Star-Spangled Banner" John Mccormick
63. "O Happy Day" The Edwin Hawkins Singers
64. "Great Balls of Fire" Jerry Lee Lewis
65. "What's Going On" Marvin Gaye
66. Oklahoma! (Album) Original Cast
67. "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" Johnny Mercer
68. "Don't Be Cruel" / "Hound Dog" Elvis Presley
69. "St. Louis Blues" W.C. Handy
70. "Yankee Doodle" Vess L. Ossman
71. "California Dreamin'" The Mamas & Papas
72. "On the Road Again" Willie Nelson
73. "Auld Lang Syne" Frank Stanley
74. "Summertime" Sidney Bechet
75. "Theme From Shaft" Isaac Hayes
76. "Beat It" Michael Jackson
77. "Sentimental Journey" Les Brown Orchestra
78. "Blue Suede Shoes" Carl Perkins
79. "The Sound of Silence" Simon & Garfunkel
80. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Nirvana
81. "It Had to Be You" Isham Jones Orchestra
82. "Minnie the Moocher" Cab Calloway
83. "Sixteen Tons" Tennessee Ernie Ford
84. "What a Wonderful World" Louis Armstrong
85. "Fire and Rain" James Taylor
86. "Y.M.C.A." The Village People
87. "Heartbreak Hotel" Elvis Presley
88. "King of the Road" Roger Miller
89. "I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor
90. "Ave Maria" Marian Anderson
91. "Begin the Beguine" Artie Shaw Orchestra
92. "Like a Rolling Stone" Bob Dylan
93. "Stop! In the Name of Love" The Supremes
94. "Stayin' Alive" The Bee Gees
95. "1999" PRINCE
96. "Please Remember Me" Tim Mcgraw
97. Porgy and Bess (Album) Original Cast
98. "Back in the Saddle Again" Gene Autry
99. "Shake, Rattle and Roll" Joe Turner
100. "In the Still of the Night" The Five Satins
101. "Killing Me Softly With His Song" Roberta Flack
102. "Friends In Low Places" Garth Brooks
103. "Charleston" Arthur Gibbs & His Gang
104. "A Tisket A Tasket" Ella Fitzgerald
105. "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" Chauncy Olcott
106. "The Times They Are A Changin'" Bob Dylan
107. "I Fall to Pieces" Patsy Cline
108. "I Will Always Love You" Whitney Houston
109. "Mona Lisa" Nat King Cole
110. "Blowin' In The Wind" Peter, Paul & Mary
111. "Peggy Sue" Buddy Holly
112. "Lean On Me" Bill Withers
113. Kind of Blue (Album) Miles Davis
114. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" Hank Williams
115. "Proud Mary" Creedence Clearwater Revival
116. "Can the Circle Be Unbroken" The Carter Family
117. "Puttin' On the Ritz" Harry Richman
118. "Layla" Derek & the Dominos
119. "Jump" Van Halen
120. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" U2
121. "We Are the World" USA For Africa
122. "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" Cyndi Lauper
123. My Fair Lady (Album) Original Cast
124. "Swanee" Al Jolson
125. "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" The Peerless Quartet
126. "Makin' Whoopee" Eddie Cantor
127. "The Tracks of My Tears" The Miracles
128. "I Wanna Be Loved By You" Helen Kane
129. "Pennies From Heaven" Bing Crosby
130. "Tutti Frutti" Little Richard
131. "Brown Eyed Girl" Van Morrison
132. "I Only Have Eyes for You" The Flamingos
133. "Born to Be Wild" Steppenwolf
134. "Superstition" Stevie Wonder
135. "Born to Run" Bruce Springsteen
136. "On the Good Ship Lollipop" Shirley Temple
137. " Wabash Cannonball" Roy Acuff
138. "Unchained Melody" Al Hibbler
139. "Dancing In the Streets" Martha & The Vandellas
140. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" M. Gaye/Tammi Terrell
141. "Piano Man" Billy Joel
142. "Joy to the World" Three Dog Night
143. "Losing My Religion" R.E.M.
144. "My Way" Frank Sinatra
145. "Let's Stay Together" Al Green
146. "We Are the Champions/We Will Rock You" Queen
147. "Purple Rain" Prince
148. "Dancing Queen" ABBA
149. A Love Supreme (Album) John Coltrane
150. "Wake Up Little Susie" The Everly Brothers
151. "Shout" The Isley Brothers
152. "I Got You (I Feel Good)" James Brown
153. "The Thrill Is Gone" B.B. King
154. "Alexander's Ragtime Band" The Boswell Sisters
155. "Bo Diddley" Bo Diddley
156. "Banana Boat (Day-O)" Harry Belafonte
157. "Ring of Fire" Johnny Cash
158. "Donna" / "La Bamba" Richie Valens
159. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" The Tokens
160. "Take Me Home Country Roads" John Denver
161. "Material Girl" Madonna
162. "Rapper's Delight" The Sugarhill Gang
163. "Goodnight Irene" Leadbelly
164. "Tequila" The Champs
165. "Que Sera Sera" Doris Day
166. "Turn! Turn! Turn!" The Byrds
167. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Album) The Beatles
168. "Soul Man" Sam & Dave
169. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" Stevie Wonder
170. "Thanks For the Memory" Bob Hope / Shirley Ross
171. "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" B.J. Thomas
172. "Moon River" Henry Mancini
173. "Free Bird" Lynyrd Skynyrd
174. "Misty" Erroll Garner Trio
175. "Chances Are" Johnny Mathis
176. "Love Letters" Ketty Lester
177. "I Love Rock 'N' Roll" Joan Jett & Blackhearts
178. "Fast Car" Tracy Chapman
179. "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" The Shirelles
180. "Leader of the Pack" The Shangri-Las
181. "In the Midnight Hour" Wilson Pickett
182. "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
183. "I Can See Clearly Now" Johnny Nash
184. "Oye Como Va" Santana
185. "Coal Miner's Daughter" Loretta Lynn
186. "The Cat's In the Cradle" Harry Chapin
187. "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies..." Waylon & Willie
188. "The Gambler" Kenny Rogers
189. "Bye Bye Blackbird" Gene Austin
190. "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" The Platters
191. "Fight For Your Right (To Party)" The Beastie Boys
192. "We Are Family" Sister Sledge
193. "Close to You" The Carpenters
194. "Maggie May" Rod Stewart
195. "Night and Day" Fred Astaire
196. "Brother Can You Spare A Dime" Rudy Vallee
197. "Tom Dooley" The Kingston Trio
198. "The Tennessee Waltz" Patti Page
199. "If You Don't Know Me By Now" Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
200. " Goodbye Yellow Brick Road " Elton John
201. "U Can't Touch This" MC Hammer
202. "Smooth" Santana & Rob Thomas
203. "Livin' La Vida Loca" Ricky Martin
204. "How Great Thou Art" George Beverly Shea
205. "Sing Sing Sing" Benny Goodman Orchestra
206. Hair (Album) Original Cast
207. "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" The Sons of the Pioneers
208. "What the World Needs Now Is Love" Jackie Deshannon
209. "Crying" Roy Orbison
210. "Sweet Child O' Mine" Guns N' Roses
211. " One O'clock Jump" Count Basie Orchestra
212. "Downtown" Petula Clark
213. "It's Too Late" / "I Feel the Earth Move" Carole King
214. "Celebration" Kool & the Gang
215. "So In Love" The Tymes
216. "You're So Vain" Carly Simon
217. "Heart of Glass" Blondie
218. "Blue Moon of Kentucky " Bill Monroe/Blue Grass Boys
219. "Teen Angel" Mark Dinning
220. Ornithology (Album) Charlie Parker Sextet
221. "We Shall Overcome" Joan Baez
222. "Something to Talk About" Bonnie Raitt
223. "Take My Hand Precious Lord" Thomas A. Dorsey
224. South Pacific (Album) Original Cast
225. "Runaround Sue" Dion
226. "Tea For Two" Art Tatum
227. "Summertime Blues" Eddie Cochran
228. "Everybody Loves Somebody" Dean Martin
229. "It's My Party" Lesley Gore
230. "The Loco-Motion" Little Eva
231. "On Broadway" The Drifters
232. "Me and Bobby McGee" Janis Joplin
233. "Time In A Bottle" Jim Croce
234. "Margaritaville" Jimmy Buffett
235. Bitches Brew (Album) Miles Davis
236. " Kansas City " Wilbert Harrison
237. "Earth Angel" The Penguins
238. "Got My Mojo Working" Muddy Waters
239. "People Get Ready" The Impressions
240. "House of the Rising Sun" The Animals
241. "White Rabbit" The Jefferson Airplane
242. " Graceland " Paul Simon
243. "Love Shack" The B-52s
244. "I Believe I Can Fly" R. Kelly
245. "All I Wanna Do" Sheryl Crow
246. "My Heart Will Go On" Céline Dion
247. "My Old Kentucky Home" Geraldine Farrar
248. "Abraham, Martin & John" Dion
249. The King and I (Album) Original Cast
250. "At the Hop" Danny & the Juniors
251. "What'd I Say" Ray Charles
252. "Mr. Sandman" The Chordettes
253. "Be My Baby" The Ronettes
254. "I Got You Babe" Sonny & Cher
255. "The Devil Went Down to Georgia " Charlie Daniels Band
256. "Flashdance (What A Feeling)" Irene Cara
257. "Burning Down the House" Talking Heads
258. "Achy Breaky Heart" Billy Ray Cyrus
259. "Wide Open Spaces" Dixie Chicks
260. The Music Man (Album) Original Cast
261. "Walk On By" Dionne Warwick
262. "Ramblin' Man" Allman Brothers Band
263. "Move On Up A Little Higher" Mahalia Jackson
264. "I'm So Excited" The Pointer Sisters
265. "That Old Black Magic" Louis Prima & Keely Smith
266. "Reach Out I'll Be There" The Four Tops
267. "Walk This Way" Aerosmith
268. "Bette Davis Eyes" Kim Carnes
269. "The Wind Beneath My Wings" Bette Midler
270. "Change the World" Eric Clapton
271. "If I Didn't Care" The Ink Spots
272. "Paper Doll" The Mills Brothers
273. "Strange Fruit" Billie Holiday
274. "Ode to Billy Joe" Bobbie Gentry
275. "Strangers In the Night" Frank Sinatra
276. "War" Edwin Starr
277. "Behind Closed Doors" Charlie Rich
278. "Old Time Rock 'N' Roll" Bob Seger
279. "We Got the Beat" The Go-Gos
280. "The Message" Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
281. "You're the Top" Cole Porter
282. "My Guy" Mary Wells
283. "You Send Me" Sam Cooke
284. "By The Time I Get to Phoenix " Glen Campbell
285. "Everybody's Talkin"" Nilsson
286. "Heart of Gold" Neil Young
287. "Jack & Diane" John Cougar Mellencamp
288. "Fight the Power" Public Enemy
289. "Me and My Shadow" Whispering Jack Smith
290. "Deep In the Heart of Texas " Alvino Ray Orchestra
291. "For What It's Worth" Buffalo Springfield
292. "That's What Friends Are For" Dionne Warwick & Friends
293. "You're Still the One" Shania Twain
294. Birdland (Album) Weather Report
295. "Go Your Own Way" Fleetwood Mac
296. "Another Brick In the Wall" Pink Floyd
297. "(Ghost) Riders In the Sky Vaughn Monroe
298. "The Way We Were" Barbra Streisand
299. "9 to 5" Dolly Parton
300. Grease (Album) Cast/Soundtrack
301. "Don't Worry Be Happy" Bobby Mcferrin
302. "Who's Sorry Now" Connie Francis
303. "That's the Way (I Like It)" K.C. & Sunshine Band
304. "Yes We Have No Bananas" Billy Jones
305. "On Top of Old Smoky" The Weavers
306. "You Really Got Me" The Kinks
307. " Ohio " Crosby Stills Nash Young
308. "Free Fallin'" Tom Petty/Heartbreakers
309. "This Kiss" Faith Hill
310. "Body and Soul" Coleman Hawkins Orchestra
311. "I Am Woman" Helen Reddy
312. Show Boat (Album) Original Cast
313. "This Masquerade" George Benson
314. "Some of These Days" Sophie Tucker
315. "Down Hearted Blues" Bessie Smith
316. "New San Antonio Rose" Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys
317. "How High the Moon" Les Paul & Mary Ford
318. "I'm Sorry" Brenda Lee
319. "Everyday People" Sly & the Family Stone
320. "When Will I Be Loved" Linda Ronstadt
321. "Uncle John's Band" The Grateful Dead
322. "Faith" George Michael
323. "Up Where We Belong" Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
324. "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over" Hank Wms. Jr.
325. "Candle In the Wind" Elton John
326. "El Shaddai" Amy Grant
327. "Salt Peanuts" Dizzy Gillespie
328. Zodiac Suite (Album) Mary Lou Williams
329. "Vesti La Giubba" Enrico Caruso
330. "Whispering" Paul Whiteman Orch.
331. "Blue Yodel (T For Texas )" Jimmie Rodgers
332. "Boogie Chillun" John Lee Hooker
333. "The Battle of New Orleans" Johnny Horton
334. "She Works Hard For the Money" Donna Summer
335. "I Want You Back" The Jackson 5
336. "He Stopped Loving Her Today" George Jones
337. "Men In Black" Will Smith
338. " El Paso " Marty Robbins
339. "I'll Fly Away" The Chuck Wagon Gang
340. "Rockit" Herbie Hancock
341. "King Porter Stomp" Jelly Roll Morton
342. " Cross Road Blues" Robert Johnson
343. "Cattle Call" Eddy Arnold
344. "Tiger Rag" The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
345. "The Prisoner's Song" Vernon Dalhart
346. "Yakety Yak" The Coasters
347. "Big Yellow Taxi" Joni Mitchell
348. "Higher Love" Steve Winwood
349. "No Charge" Shirley Caesar
350. "My Home's In Alabama " Alabama
351. "One Sweet Day" Boyz II Men/Mariah Carey
352. "I Hope You Dance" Lee Ann Womack
353. "Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around" The Fairfield Four
354. "The In Crowd" Ramsey Lewis Trio
355. "Near You" Francis Craig Orchestra
356. "Sing Me Back Home" Merle Haggard
357. "Django" The Modern Jazz Quartet
358. "Respect Yourself" The Staples Singers
359. "Doo Wop (That Thing)" Lauryn Hill
360. "Mama He's Crazy" The Judds
361. "No Scrubs" TLC
362. "Saturday In the Park" Chicago
363. "Bills, Bills, Bills" Destiny's Child
364. "Addictive Love" Bebe & Cece Winans
365. "All Along the Watchtower" Jimi Hendrix

Metropolitan area network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:


"Metropolitan Area Networks or MANs are large computer networks usually spanning a campus or a city. They typically use wireless infrastructure or optical fiber connections to link their sites.

For instance a university or college may have a MAN that joins together many of their local area networks (LANs) situated around site of a fraction of a square kilometer. Then from their MAN they could have several wide area network (WAN) links to other universities or the Internet.

Some technologies used for this purpose are ATM, FDDI and SMDS. These older technologies are in the process of being displaced by Gigabit Ethernet-based MANs in most areas. MAN links between LANs have been built without cables using either microwave, radio, or infra-red free-space optical communication links.

DQDB, Distributed Queue Dual Bus, is the Metropolitan Area Network standard for data communication. It specified in the IEEE 802.6 standard. Using DQDB, networks can be up to 30 miles long and operate at speeds of 34 to 155 Mbit/s.

Several notable networks started as MANs, such as the Internet peering points MAE-West and MAE-East and the Sohonet media network."

Build Server

AMD Server Specs

Component	Price
MSI K8T Neo-FSR Motheboard	4,888
AMD 64 Processor 3400+	14,499
Sparkle GeForce MX4000-8X 64MB AGP-8X Video	1,688
8866 Black Mid Tower Case 400W	2,488
Samsung 80 GB Hard Disk Drive P 3,788 x 2 (data mirror)	7,576
512MB DDR400 DDR SDRAM P 2,499 x 2 (1 gig)	4,998

Total: P 36,137


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Villman Price

3.4 ghz performance


AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Processor
Boxed Processor, Socket 754, 64-bit, 1MB L2 cache, runs at 2.2 GHz, 1600MHz system bus using HyperTransport technology
P 14,499


Intel Pentium 4 Processor 550
Boxed LGA775 Processor, 3.4 GHz, 1-MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB, Prescott family, 90 nm Mfg. Tech., with Hyper-Threading Technology
P 16,999


Motherboard


ASUS K8V SE Deluxe Motherboard
Socket 754, VIA K8T800 chipset, 800MHz HyperTransport, (3) DDR400 DIMMS, (2) ATA133, (4) SATA (RAID 0,1), ATX, 5 PCI, AGP-8X, Gigabit LAN, USB 2.0, 6-Channel Audio, Firewire
P 8,188


MSI K8T Neo-FSR Motheboard
Socket 754, VIA K8T800 chipset, AGP-8X, 800/600/400/200MHz Double Data Rate operation, (3) DDR DIMMS, Ultra ATA133, (2) Serial ATA150 (RAID 0,1), ATX, 5 PCI, Gigabit LAN, USB 2.0, 6-Channel Audio
P 4,888


MSI K8N Neo Platinum Motherboard
Socket 754, nVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset, AGP-8X, (3) DDR DIMMS, Ultra ATA133 & (4) Serial ATA150, ATX, 5 PCI, Gigabit LAN, USB 2.0, Firewire, 8-Channel Audio
P 7,388



Video

Sparkle GeForce MX4000-8X 64MB AGP-8X
64MB SDR, Nvidia GeForce MX4000, 32-bit, AGP-4X, wth TV-Out (S-Video)
P 1,688


Casing

8866 Black Mid Tower Case 400W
Mid Tower, ATX Form Factor, 300W power supply, Pentium 4 support, Transparent Side Panel, with USB and Audio ports at front
P 2,488


Hard disk

Samsung 80 GB Hard Disk Drive | SATA150 | 7200RPM
Serial ATA 150, 7200RPM, 8MB Cache
P 3,788


Memory

512MB DDR400 DDR SDRAM
184-pin DDR DIMM 400 a.k.a. PC3200, 1 year warranty
P 2,499

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Benchmark References:

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041019/athlon64_4000-16.html

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-76097.html

Question: Asus K8V-SE Deluxe vs. MSI K8N NEO PLATINUM

Q:
Hi everyone,
up until this morning, I was going to go with the msi mobo,
but today, I found a very good deal, but I'll most likely have to go with the K8V-SE Deluxe, as they do not have the MSI. Is there much of a performance difference between the two(when oc'ing and not oc'ing).

A:
Haha. You're in luck my friend. I actually own both of them. I got my K8V-SE Deluxe board first with a 3200 Newcastle. My first impressions were, The BIOS sucks. I didn't now like the BIOS at all. No adjustablity. The VIA chipset is great but its nothing compared to the NF3 250. My suggestion, go with the MSI. It's a great board. I don't regret it. I let my gf have my K8V-SE W/ A64 3200 Newcastle and I have a A64 3200 Clawhammer :). Wish I would have waited like 3 more weeks. I could have bought a 3400. My advice.. get the MSI. I bought the K8V because they ran out of stock of the MSI. I regretted it.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Business (Don't Go Here):

Claim: The Chevrolet Nova sold poorly in Spanish-speaking countries because its name translates as "doesn't go" in Spanish.

Status: False.

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the classic cautionary tale about the pitfalls of doing business in foreign countries that can be found in hundreds (if not thousands) of books about marketing: General Motors introduced their Chevrolet Nova model of automobile into a Spanish-speaking market, then scratched their heads in puzzlement when it sold poorly. GM executives were baffled until someone finally pointed out to them that "nova" translates as "doesn't go" in Spanish. The embarrassed automobile giant changed the model name to the Caribe, and sales of the car took off.

This No va. No va.anecdote is frequently used to illustrate the perils of failing to do adequate preparation and research before introducing a product into the international marketplace. It's a wicked irony, then, that the people who use this example are engaging in the very thing they're decrying, because a little preparation and research would have informed them that it isn't true. (The sources that repeat this little tale can't even agree on where the Nova supposedly sold poorly, variously listing locales such as Puerto Rico, Mexico, South America, or simply "Spanish-speaking countries.") This is another one of those tales that makes its point so well — just like the apocryphal one about George Washington and the cherry tree — that nobody wants to ruin it with a bunch of facts. Nonetheless, we're here to ruin it.

The original Chevrolet Nova (initially the Chevy II) hit the U.S. market in 1962. (This car should not be confused with the smaller, front wheel drive vehicle which was produced in 1985 as a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota and also assigned the Nova name.) Between 1972 and 1978 the Chevrolet Nova was also sold in Mexico and several other Spanish-speaking countries, primarily Venezuela. Shortly afterwards the great "Nova" legend arose, a legend which a little linguistic analysis shows it to be improbable:

* First of all, the phrase "no va" (literally "doesn't go") and the word "nova" are distinct entities with different pronunciations in Spanish: the former is two words and is pronounced with the accent on the second word; the latter is one word with the accent on the first syllable. Assuming that Spanish speakers would naturally see the word "nova" as equivalent to the phrase "no va" and think "Hey, this car doesn't go!" is akin to assuming that English speakers woud spurn a dinette set sold under the name Notable because nobody wants a dinette set that doesn't include a table.


* Although "no va" can be literally translated as "no go," it would be a curious locution for a speaker of Spanish to use in reference to a car. Just as an English speaker would describe a broken-down car by saying that it "doesn't run" rather than it "doesn't go," so a Spanish speaker would refer to a malfunctioning automobile by saying "no marcha" or "no funciona" or "no camina" rather than "no va."


* Pemex (the Mexican government-owned oil monopoly) sold (and still sells) gasoline in Mexico under the name "Nova." If Mexicans were going to associate anything with the Chevrolet Nova based on its name, it would probably be this gasoline. In any case, if Mexicans had no compunctions about filling the tanks of their cars with a type of gasoline whose name advertised that it "didn't go," why would they reject a similarly-named automobile?


* This legend assumes that a handful of General Motors executives launched a car into a foreign market and remained in blissful ignorance about a possible adverse translation of its name. Even if nobody in Detroit knew enough rudimentary Spanish to notice the coincidence, the Nova could not have been brought to market in Mexico and/or South America without the involvement of numerous Spanish speakers engaged to translate user manuals, prepare advertising and promotional materials, communicate with the network of Chevrolet dealers in the target countries, etc. In fact, GM was aware of the translation and opted to retain the model name "Nova" in Spanish-speaking markets anyway, because they (correctly) felt the matter to be unimportant.

The truth is that the Chevrolet Nova's name didn't significantly affect its sales: it sold well in both its primary Spanish-language markets, Mexico and Venezuela. (Its Venezuelan sales figures actually surpassed GM's expectations.) The whole "Nova = "doesn't go" tale was merely another in a long line of automotive jokes, like the ones about "Ford" being an acronym for "Fix or repair daily" or "Found on road dead" or "Fiat" being an acronym for "Fix it again, Tony!" These humorous inventions might adequately reflect the tellers' feelings about the worthiness of various types of automobiles, but we don't really expect that anyone ever refrained from buying a Ford because he actually believed they needed to be repaired on a daily basis.

The one bit of supporting evidence offered to back up this legend is spurious as well. General Motors, we're told, finally wised up and changed the model name of their automobile from Nova to Caribe, after which sales of the car "took off." One small problem with this claim: the Caribe sold in Mexico was manufactured by Volkswagen, not General Motors. (The Caribe was the model name used by VW in Mexico for the car more commonly known in the USA as the Volkswagen Golf.) The Nova's model name was never changed for the Spanish-speaking market.

The Chevy Nova legend lives on in countless marketing textbooks, is repeated in numerous business seminars, and is a staple of newspaper and magazine columnists who need a pithy example of human folly. Perhaps someday this apocryphal tale will become what it should be: an illustration of how easily even "experts" can sometimes fall victim to the very same dangers they warn us about.

Slashdot | Windows Vista Faces Lawsuits: "When my company wants to propose a name a new product, one of the steps is to go to the USPTO to see if somebody in the same industry has a registered trademark on it. If so, we drop the proposed name and go on to the next. Seems elementary to me. We also try to get the .com domain if at all possible. Lastly, we do a google search to see if the name candidate is diluted or already in use as a claimed (but not registered) trademark. Sometimes we find that the name has negative connotations. Anyway, why doesn't MS hire people who do these elementary steps for them? Perhaps they felt that 'vista' was too diluted to be a trademark on its own, and/or that using the trademark 'Microsoft Vista' is sufficiently distinct from any other use of 'vista', but these arguments seem lazy and weak to me. Other than that, it's a pretty good name.
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Slashdot | Windows Vista Faces Lawsuits: " How many people are going to actually know what 'Vista' means, anyway? I'd put 20 on people thinking that the newest incarnation of Windows is some spanish distribution.


Well, I know what Vista stands for:

Viruses
Instability
Spyware
Trojans
Adware"

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Slashdot | Calculating the True Worth of Software: "Headline talks of worth, blurb speaks of cost. As I'm sure the poster is aware, they're not the same thing by a long way.

For example, I run a one-man contracting business. The worth to me of my accounts package is vast, the cost of it miniscule in comparison. And that cost is...one copy of Virtual PC for around £100 I think (I run OS X), one copy of XP for around £170 (retail, used it on a physical PC I no longer have and now it's on the emulator), then around £50 for Quicken UK. I can feel the Free people ganging up on me - I must be mad! That adds up to £230, that's nearly the price of a low-end machine! Well, to me that software is worth the amount, and the price is an utterly negligible amount of the cost of running my business.

Cheers,
Ian"

Microsoft and Mozilla

Microsoft and Mozilla: "Sorry, Microsoft..you might have brought me to the dance but I'm going home with that Firefox guy over there; he's so clean, virus-free, and that tabbed browsing capability is to DIE for (swoon)."

ONLamp.com: Calculating the True Price of Software

ONLamp.com: Calculating the True Price of Software:

"The conventional wisdom is that you buy a software license (the value of the actual software bits), and then you buy maintenance and support separately, which usually costs 20 percent of the original license cost annually. For a $1,000 software license, you'll pay $200 per year for maintenance and support.

What happens if we decide to separate the 'stock' from the 'dividend'? Could we price the 'software without the maintenance' separately from the 'maintenance without the software'? It's much the same as with that AT&T stock--even if logically the dividend always comes with the stock, a middleman might be able to sell them separately."

Slashdot | Calculating the True Worth of Software:

"Many people recognize that the cost to duplicate a piece of software is a fraction of the number on its price tag. Many people also understand that software without support and maintenance loses much of its value. Is there a way to put a price on the software, support, maintenance, and the option for future upgrades itself? Robert Lefkowitz recently applied an options pricing model to software in ONLamp.com's Calculating the True Price of Software. Don't let the description fool you; it's both a readable and serious apologia of the common free software business model."

RESEARCHUT -- Basic RAM Information:

What is dual-channel DDR memory?

The terminology "dual-channel memory" is being misused by some in the memory industry, which can mislead the consumer. The fact is there's no such thing as dual-channel memory. There are, however, dual-channel platforms.

When properly used, the term "dual channel" refers to the DDR or DDR2 chipset on certain motherboards designed with two memory channels instead of one. The two channels handle memory-processing more efficiently by utilizing the theoretical bandwidth of the two modules, thus reducing system latencies, the timing delays that inherently occur with one memory module. For example, one controller reads and writes data while the second controller prepares for the next access, hence, eliminating the reset and setup delays that occur before one memory module can begin the read/write process all over again. Think of it like two relay runners. The first runner runs one leg while the second runner sets up and prepares to receive the baton smoothly and carry on the task at hand without delay. While performance gains from dual-channel chipsets aren't huge, they can increase bandwidth by as much as 10 percent. To those seeking to push the performance envelope, that 10 percent can be very important.

So the next time you come across a product that's touted and sold as dual-channel memory, know this- It's simply two DDR or DDR2 memory modules, packaged and marketed as a specialty product or a must-have "kit." If indeed you have a dual-channel platform and you want to take advantage of the performance gain it offers, our advice is to opt for high quality and service over expensive packaging, and simply purchase your DDR or DDR2 memory in pairs. However, be very careful to order two modules with the exact same specifications; the modules must be identical to each other to perform correctly.

RESEARCHUT -- Basic RAM Information:

What is the difference between PC2100 (DDR266), PC2700 (DDR333), and PC3200 (DDR400)?

PC2100 (DDR266) memory, PC2700 (DDR333) memory, and PC3200 (DDR400) memory are all types of Double Data Rate (DDR) SDRAM. The varying numbers refer to the different speeds of memory your computer was designed for.

Let's take a look at PC2100 (DDR266) to break it down simply.

PC2100 refers to the bandwidth of the memory. A PC2100 module has the bandwidth of 2.1GB/sec therefore it is referred to as PC2100.

DDR266 refers to the effective front-side bus speed of your system. While your DDR system or motherboard may operate a 133MHz front-side bus, its effective front-side bus speed is 266MHz because DDR effectively doubles the amount of data transferred per cycle that a non-DDR system would.

The same holds true for PC2700 (DDR333) which has a bandwidth of 2.7GB/sec and is designed for use in systems and motherboards which require a 166MHz front-side bus, with an effective front-side bus speed of 333MHz.

PC3200 DDR (DDR400) has a bandwidth of 3.2GB/sec and is designed for use in systems and motherboards which require a 200MHz front-side bus with an effective front-side bus speed of 400MHz.

Though DDR memory was designed to be backward compatible (meaning you can use PC3200 DDR in a computer designed to use PC2100 DDR or vice-versa), we always recommend that you use the Crucial Memory Selector to find exactly the right memory for your computer.


My computer uses PC2700 (DDR333). Can I use PC3200 (DDR400)?

DDR memory was designed to be backward compatible so generally speaking, you can safely add faster memory to your computer. For example, you can install a PC3200 DDR module in a computer that calls for PC2700 DDR. However, keep in mind that faster memory will not necessarily make your system faster. You can't speed up your computer by adding faster memory if other components in your computer (your processor or other memory modules) operate at a slower speed.

Hardware Knowledgebase - What is the Mhz Speed of PC2700, PC3200, PC3500, PC4000, or other types of DDR DRAM? - HardwareFAQs: powered by neofaq: "FAQ
What is the Mhz Speed of PC2700, PC3200, PC3500, PC4000, or other types of DDR DRAM?
ANSWER

The numeral portion of DDR memory represents the 'MB/s' of the RAM, so PC2700 is rated at 2.7GB/s (2700MB/s) and so forth. However, when configuring your RAM the names of the memory are actually related to their speeds as follows:

PC2100: 266Mhz
PC2700: 333Mhz
PC3200: 400Mhz
PC3500: 433Mhz
PC3700: 466Mhz
PC4000: 500Mhz
PC4200: 533Mhz

Note that many of these RAMs are NOT officially recognized by standards committees because technically anything above DDR400 speeds are not officially supported by chipsets.

Most of the really high speed RAM such as 433Mhz and above (PC3500 and above) go beyond standard specs and are useful for FSB overclocking above 200Mhz.

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Notebook Forums - Centrino Processors vs. athlon 64 and p4m

Notebook Forums - Centrino Processors vs. athlon 64 and p4m:

spasticmunkey
05-29-2004, 04:08 AM
I've been browsing the market of new laptops and had my list rather whittled down, when i read on Voodoo PC's site that centrino processors run effectively 1.8 times the actual clocked speed (ie the dothan 1.8 is quoted by voodoo to be running at the equivalent of 3.24). This was new information to me, and openned up the centrino based notebooks into my search. For a gaming notebook that isn't going to be plugged in on a desk 24/7 (I travel a bit) what processor would you recomend? I was looking at, among other things Athlon 64's and P4m's. Also, if anyone knows, do benchmarks give this 1.8x coefficient consistently?
Tommi
05-29-2004, 05:16 AM
Nope. It depends on the application. Pentium M's are efficient in encoding, I believe the 1.8 coefficient holds for that use only. I've seen the P-M -> P4-M efficiency multiplier ranging from anywhere of 1.35 to 1.9 in CPU tests. Generally, 1.5 or so could be used as an average value.
Tourney2112
05-29-2004, 08:56 PM
Yes, 1.5 is the general value because the 1.6GHz Pentium M usually compares to the 2.4GHz P4 in performance. Thus you can expect to see the 1.8GHz Dothan run like a 2.8GHz Pentium M. Now to get to your question about processors.

First lets talk about battery life (while doing casual things such as wordprocessing:
Pentium 4 (desktop version): usually expect 60-90 minutes
Mobile Pentium 4: expect around 2 hours.
Athlon 64: 3 hours
Pentium M (used in Centrino package): up to 5 hrs.

Performance:
of the three processors, the Athlon 64 shows the best performance. Coupled with AMD's hypertransport technology, the athlon64 can have up to a 1600mhz bus speed if the mobo supports it. Otherwise is runs with an 800mhz bus speed. Thus the athlon64 gives you a three hour battery life while a comparable P4 (with 800mhz fsb) would give you 1 hr. Although Pentium M gives you wonderful performance, it can't compare to the Athlon64 in performance.
Athlon64 will give you best performance with average battery life. If you get the Pentium M it can still handle any game out there especially with a M11 video card. Stay away from the P4. They aren't meant to be used in lappys. laptops are meant to be portable. P4's weigh ten pounds and have virtually no battery life to speak of.

Unix Fortune:

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the
universe."
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Slashdot | Driven to Distraction by Technology: "In fact, I normally prefer email to phone calls. It is less interrupting, and it forces the person who is contacting you to organize their thoughts rather than just randomly spilling them out. Phone is GREAT for conversations, but TERRIBLE for just making requests. Unless you know that the call is going to be very high priority for both parties, I think you're better off just sending an email to schedule a time to make the call, or better still a visit."

AC&NC | RAID.edu - RAID Levels - RAID Level 0 - RAID 0

Slashdot | Google and Microsoft Lob More Lawsuits: "...before, at least for the IT field. The rulings have basically said that a year-long hiatus in the IT field might as well be infinitely long, due to the pacing of the business. Another ruling (which I cannot find now) basically said that if an employer wants to enforce a non-compete ruling, then they needed to be willing to compensate the employee for the duration. It's important for businesses to realize that non-competes are not a form of punishment for employees who decide to leave, but rather a means to keep trade secrets or competetive edges for a short amount of time.
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Slashdot | Mac OS X Gaining Ground In Corporate Environs: "As for linux... Yeah, linux is fun and all, but it ain't ready for regular people. I'd much sooner roll out a BSD than linux -- and this is why I ditched linux myself -- I am sick and tired of dealing with dependency hell. Even my 'easy' Gentoo box sucked days of my life from me..."

Slashdot | Mac OS X Gaining Ground In Corporate Environs: "'If the average user could have a fully configured Linux system that 'just worked' placed in front of them I think they would forget Windows and OS X rather quickly.' I think you may be a bit out of touch with the 'average user'. If a Linux system 'just worked' then yeah, maybe they'd choose it over OS X or Windows. But Linux is never going to 'just work' that way. The mere existence of multiple windowing systems means that applications will be targeted at one of them. Sure, if the average user decides he likes Gnome best, he can still use KDE applications, but the little inconsitencies in the interface will start to wear on him. Why is that? Because the inconsistencies lead to things not 'just working'. Users don't want to have to know 3 different ways to paste something based on what toolkit the app is based on. They just want to go to Edit -> Paste (the more savvy ones may know Control+V) and have it work. I'm not saying choice is a bad thing. It's a great thing when you know what you're doing. When you don't know what you're doing, you want the simplest thing that will get the job done. Linux still needs a lot of work to be that thing."

Slashdot | Basics of RAID: "For those who have run out of internal space in their boxes, and who don't have external SATA or expensive hardware boxes, you can run RAID over Firewire.

The problem, however, is that out of the box Windows refuses to 'promote' an external disk to dynamic, which is required on all post-NT4 rigs for RAID.

The solution is to add a semi-documented Registry flag, EnableDynamicConversionFor1394 [google.com].

HOW TO: Convert an IEEE 1394 Disk Drive to a Dynamic Disk Drive in Windows XP [microsoft.com]

Couple that with a cheap 4-bay firewire JBOD box and any spare old enclosures and you are set!

I run 2TB in various RAID configs on my Windows server (main and near-line storage). Have done so since 2002. No problems with the external boxes. The support for external firewire RAID is a little gnarly in Windows 2000 - volume must be mounted as a named virtual directory and cannot be mounted as a letter drive. Later Windows give you both options.
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Slashdot | CNN Interviews with Harlan Ellison, Bruce Sterling: "But it's against the law to copy stories without permission. Harlan is old school, and as obnoxious as all hell when he wants to be, and that's his right here. Sure, publishers need to change their business model, but they haven't just yet. Respect the artist. If you think he sucks so much, why do you want to read his work anyway?

I wanted to use a story by Geoffrey Landis in my astronomy class last semester. I emailed him up, asked him if I could make 120 copies for my students, and he said absolutely. Even asked if I wanted the story in electronic form. If he'd said no, I wouldn't have done it."

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What is Debconf? | debconf5

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Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings: "Debconf5

Things learned during Debconf5:

1. Don’t promise to go to bed “when it gets dark”.
2. Having large amounts of beer makes you popular…
3. …until you wake everyone up singing at 7am.
4. No matter how unapetising the food, it can be eaten if covered in sufficient amounts of Tabasco Sauce.
5. Don’t look at packages too hard, they don’t like it.
6. Debian can co-operate, provided they’re given a sand-pit.
7. Being naked while online does translate into real life.
8. There is no wifi in the sauna."

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neo t210c IIS installation problem from oem's winxp cd.

muntikan ko ireinstall from unlicensed winxp yung laptop ko. ayaw gumana nung iis from original winxp cd. pag ni-a-add ko na yung IIS s windows, it errors:
"Distibuted Transaction Coordinator Setup Error"
"failed to register mtxoci.dll."

it's almost a week na i am googling to find solution for this IIS problem.

iniinstall ko na yung unlicensed winxp(which gumagana yung IIS) yesterday, but then i thought to give one last shot to search again in google, so i stopped the installation, then search uli ako.

sayang naman yung original winxp kung di original yung gagamitin ko sa laptop, P5,000 din oem's winxp.

google ulit. buti I stumble upon this article, which states that it is registry permission problem. so what i did is change the permission of user SYSTEM in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSDTC to full control, then yun gumana na

and buti na lang din i happen to disable the Virtual Memory(Paging) . Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Settings > Advanced > Virtual Memory > Change. hindi nagtutuloy mag-install yung vmware pag walang virtual memory, nag-ha-hang. kung nagkataon na on the first go is nainstall ko vmware, baka ni-vmware ko n lng yung winxp n unlicensed n gumagana yung IIS.

then nung napagana ko na yung IIS dun sa original winxp, ni-try ko iinstall uli vmware this morning. an idea struck to my mind na baka kulang sa memory(though 768mb na memory nito). so ni-enable ko uli yung paging, then voila! gumana na yung installation ng vmware :)

i wonder nga lang bakit yung original cd is readonly yung permission ng MSDTC registry.

Disable the Unread Mail Message on the Welcome Screen (Windows XP) at Registry Guide for Windows: "Registry Settings
User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail]
Value Name: MessageExpiryDays
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (0 = disabled, 3 = default)"

MacNN Forums - Any one use Mac for C# programming?: "There were once four people named Everybody, Somebody, Nobody and Anybody. Somebody had to do a job, but Nobody wanted to do it. Nobody could see that Anybody could do it, and Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Nobody ended up doing it, and it so happened that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done."

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In smarts, she's a perfect 10

In smarts, she's a perfect 10:
In smarts, she's a perfect 10
'Pakistan's girl wonder' is likely the youngest certified Microsoft expert

By TODD BISHOP
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Sitting down for a personal meeting with Bill Gates this week, 10-year-old Arfa Karim Randhawa asked the Microsoft founder why the company doesn't hire people her age.


IN HER OWN WORDS
Excerpts from Todd Bishop's interview with Arfa Karim Randhawa, in MP3 format:
- Arfa describes her meeting with Bill Gates this week (1:40)
- Arfa describes what she wants to study in college, and what she wants to do when she grows up (1:01)
- Arfa talks about the programs she has made as part of her studies (1:23)
- Arfa recites her philosophy in life (0:14)


Under the circumstances, the question wasn't so unreasonable.

Arfa, a promising software programmer from Faisalabad, Pakistan, is believed to be the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in the world. The designation, given to outside experts who prove their ability to work with Microsoft technologies, has also been achieved by some teenagers. But it's far more common among adults seeking to advance their computer careers.

Arfa received the certification when she was still 9, an impressive accomplishment in its own right, according to older programmers who have gone through the process. And others called it an encouraging sign of the continued emergence of women in a country where they have historically struggled to advance.

The situation illustrates "another side" of Pakistan, said Anand Yang, director of the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies. "That's another reason to celebrate someone like her."


Dan DeLong / P-I
Ten-year-old Arfa Karim Randhawa of Pakistan, believed to be the youngest person in the world to have earned Microsoft Certified Professional status, visits the company's Redmond campus.
Arfa's one-on-one meeting with Gates was part of a visit this week to the company's Redmond campus, arranged and sponsored by Microsoft to better introduce Arfa to the company, and to give people at headquarters a chance to meet her. The week included lab tours and a series of informal sessions with Microsoft executives and employees, including a Pakistani employee group.

She made an impression through a combination of charm, flattery and boldness uncommon for someone her age. For example, during Arfa's meeting with Gates, she presented him with a poem she wrote that celebrated his life story. But she also questioned him about what she perceived to be the relatively small proportion of women on the campus.

"It should be balanced -- an equal amount of men and an equal amount of women," she explained afterward.

About 75 percent of Microsoft employees are men, according to company data. Recounting their conversation, Arfa said Gates acknowledged her concerns and talked about the broader industry's struggles to increase the proportion of women in technology-related fields.

Other topics they discussed included her Muslim faith and her hometown, an industrial city known for its textile businesses.

Afterward, Arfa described Gates as an "ideal personality," explaining that he had been second only to Disneyland on her list of things she wanted to see in the United States. Previously unaware of the casual dress code at Microsoft, she said she had expected Gates to be wearing a suit but was surprised to find him in a casual shirt with the top button open.

"I expected that all the people would be here in suits," she said with a giggle, wearing a hat acquired during her earlier visit to the company's Xbox game studios.

Later in the afternoon, she sat outside with S. "Soma" Somasegar, a Microsoft corporate vice president, and described her vision for a self-navigating car. He listened to her ideas and told her about some of Microsoft's existing software for cars.

To be sure, despite her question to Gates about employing people her age, Microsoft wasn't about to offer a job to someone so young. But Somasegar talked about the possibility of an internship in a few years.

"The thing that's exciting to me is her passion for technology at this age," said Somasegar, who decided to invite Arfa to Redmond after reading a story about her in MicroNews, an internal company newsletter.

The visit to Microsoft headquarters was the culmination of a meteoric rise that has turned Arfa into something of a celebrity in her country. It began at age 5, when she walked by a computer lab at her school and started wondering about those strange "boxes," the computers and monitors. Later, when she found out what they did, she was amazed.

"When you push a button, something magically appears on the box," she said, recalling the experience.

She eventually persuaded her father to buy a computer, and she demonstrated unexpected aptitude, using Microsoft PowerPoint and other programs. Encouraged by what she was doing, her father took her to Applied Technologies, or APTECH, an advanced computer institute nearby.

"I saw her doing something extraordinary, making presentations," said her father, Amjad Karim, who serves with a U.N. peacekeeping force in Africa and came with his daughter to Microsoft this week. "That made me think that she could use some professional coaching, and she could do better in her future life."

Karim said he is careful not to push his daughter, but wanted to make sure that the opportunities existed for her to pursue her interest. He said he first noticed something unusual when she started displaying a remarkable memory, perhaps photographic, at a young age.

The people at the computer institute required some persuading, because of her age, but they accepted her as a student, taught her about programming and ultimately told her father that she appeared to be in a position to seek Microsoft certification.

The institute instructors assumed it would take Arfa about a year to go through the process of certification for developing Windows applications. But after four months of study and work, over summer vacation, she passed the required exams.

Her programming experience so far has been as part of her studies. She has created basic Windows applications, such as a calculator and a sorting program, primarily in the C# programming language. The certification she received was as a Microsoft Certified Application Developer. She says she plans to pursue a more advanced certification, as a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, which involves building programs into a broader system for a business.

Arfa's accomplishment is "very impressive," said Michael Earls, 33, a software consultant and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer in Atlanta. "The type of thinking that goes into correctly answering those questions is pretty mature. ... Microsoft certifications are not a joke -- they're highly respected in the industry."

Ultimately, Arfa says, she would like to go to Harvard University or MIT, and then either go to work for Microsoft, in its developer division, or become a satellite engineer.

Since learning about Arfa from her father -- and validating her programming abilities through an additional exam of their own -- Microsoft representatives in Pakistan have held her up as an example in the country.

"We discovered her, we ran into her, we feel very lucky," said Jawwad Rehman, Microsoft's country manager in Pakistan, who also accompanied her to Redmond this week. "But I'm sure there are many others out there, as well, who don't have access to the computers or the proper education system" as Arfa did.

As word of her accomplishment has spread in her country, Arfa has appeared on TV, in newspapers and spoken at Microsoft events. One youth magazine called her "Pakistan's girl wonder." A U.S.-based reporter for GEO TV, a 24-hour news and entertainment channel in Pakistan, came to Redmond this week to document her visit to the campus.

Although she has had a birthday since passing the certification test last year, Arfa is careful to point out that she was 9 when she took the exam. More precisely, she says, she was nine years, nine months, 11 days, and six hours. Fully aware of the fact that she's the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, she wants to be specific about her age at the time, in case another young programmer emerges someday to challenge what she calls her "world record."

Her mother and two brothers, ages 3 and 7, stayed home while she and her father came to the United States. It was the first trip to the country for both. After some sightseeing in Seattle, they're scheduled to return home tomorrow from their Microsoft adventure.

Next time, Arfa says, she hopes to visit Disneyland, as well.


- Arfa recites her philosophy in life (0:14)

Under the circumstances, the question wasn't so unreasonable.
Arfa, a promising software programmer from Faisalabad, Pakistan, is believed to be the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in the world. The designation, given to outside experts who prove their ability to work with Microsoft technologies, has also been achieved by some teenagers. But it's far more common among adults seeking to advance their computer careers.
Arfa received the certification when she was still 9, an impressive accomplishment in its own right, according to older programmers who have gone through the process. And others called it an encouraging sign of the continued emergence of women in a country where they have historically struggled to advance.
The situation illustrates 'another side' of Pakistan, said Anand Yang, director of the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies. 'That's another reason to celebrate someone like her.'

Dan DeLong / P-I
Ten-year-old Arfa Karim Randhawa of Pakista"

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Wired vs Wireless - Building the Right Home Network

Wired vs Wireless - Building the Right Home Network: "Performance
Wired LANs offer superior performance. Traditional Ethernet connections offer only 10 Mbps bandwidth, but 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet technology costs little more and is readily available. Although 100 Mbps represents a theoretical maximum performance never really achieved in practice, Fast Ethernet should be sufficient for home file sharing, gaming, and high-speed Internet access for many years into the future.

Wired LANs utilizing hubs can suffer performance slowdown if computers heavily utilize the network simultaneously. Use Ethernet switches instead of hubs to avoid this problem; a switch costs little more than a hub."

vbCity/DevCity.NET Forums :: Visual Basic :: VB General :: FAQ :: Creating WinNT Services in VB:

This is a demonstration of creating a NT Service in VB6. The same methode works in VB4 and VB5. Your OS must be NT4.0, W2000 or XP

An application that runs as a service is controlled by the system's Service Manager and runs in the background. Examples are mail servers and database servers. A service application needs to accept commands from the system like Start, Stop, Pause and Resume.

Since VB cannot communicate with the systems Service Manager (VB.NET can do that), we use a contol called NTSVC.OCX. NTSVC.OCX used to be on MSDN as unsupported software. It is included in the zip file.

First you need to register NTSVC.OCX with REGSVR32. After registering, you can add the Microsoft NT Service Control component to your project.

Our project will need one form to host the OCX and a Timer control , and one global module. The module takes care of installing and uninstalling the service. It is not much code, because NTSVC.OCX does all the work.

Code:

Option Explicit
Public Const SVCLOGFILE = "\servicelog.txt"

Public Sub subLogCommand(strCommand As String)
'*** log all commands to a text file
'*** if you like to log to the system event log,
'*** use frmService.NTService1.LogEvent svcEventInformation, svcMessageInfo, strCommand

Dim lngFileNum As Long

lngFileNum = FreeFile()
Open App.Path & SVCLOGFILE For Append As #lngFileNum
Print #lngFileNum, Format$(Date$, "YYYY/MM/DD"), Format$(Time$, "HH:MM:SS"), strCommand
Close #lngFileNum
End Sub

Public Sub Main()

'*** Write to the log
subLogCommand Command$

'*** select the right action to take
Select Case Trim$(Command$)

'*** tell the OCX to install the service and quit
Case "/install"
'*** set all defaults for the service here
With frmService.NTService1

'*** True if the service needs to interact with the user
.Interactive = False

'*** use these to read / write to the registry at
'*** HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\[SERVICE NAME]
'.SaveSetting
'.GetSetting
'.DeleteSetting
'.GetAllSettings

'*** for example write the Description shown in the Services window.
.SaveSetting "", "Description", "This is a Service written in VB6."

'*** set the startmode to manual by default
.StartMode = svcStartManual

'*** now install the service
.Install

'*** write a line to the system log
.LogEvent svcEventInformation, svcMessageInfo, "VB Service installed."
End With

Unload frmService

'*** tell the OCX to uninstall the service and quit
Case "/uninstall"
frmService.NTService1.Uninstall
Unload frmService

'*** start the service. simply keep the form loaded
Case ""
Load frmService
frmService.NTService1.StartService

'*** show a messagebox to show the commands.
'*** for your final application, consider removing this.
'*** better write to the NT event log.
Case Else
MsgBox "use " & App.EXEName & " /uninstall or /install..." & vbNewLine & _
"use 'Net Start " & frmService.NTService1.ServiceName & "' to START the service" & vbNewLine & _
"use 'Net Stop " & frmService.NTService1.ServiceName & "' to STOP the service" & vbNewLine & _
"use the Windows Services to set the Startup Type to AUTOMATIC."
Unload frmService

End Select

End Sub

Now we need the code to handle the commands. The commands are events fired by the OCX. The code of our form looks like this:

Code:

Option Explicit

Private Sub NTService1_Continue(Success As Boolean)
subLogCommand "continue"

'*** resume
timApplication.Interval = 60000

Success = True
End Sub

Private Sub NTService1_Pause(Success As Boolean)
subLogCommand "pause"

'*** pause the timer
timApplication.Interval = 0

Success = True
End Sub

Private Sub NTService1_Start(Success As Boolean)
subLogCommand "start"

'*** tell the servicemanager which control commands we accept
NTService1.ControlsAccepted = svcCtrlPauseContinue
NTService1.StartService

'*** run every minute
timApplication.Interval = 60000

Success = True
End Sub

Private Sub NTService1_Stop()
subLogCommand "stopped"

'*** cleanup time
timApplication.Interval = 0

End Sub

Private Sub timApplication_Timer()
'***
'*** YOUR CODE HERE
'***
subLogCommand "[TIMER] ..just to demonstrate that the service is running..."
End Sub

Note that the Timer_Event should start your Application.

To view your service running, run services.msc and look for VB NT Service.

I added four batch files to the zip to make it easier to work with the service during development.

Martijn

GamePC - Battle at 90nm : Power Consumption and Performance Compared

GamePC - Battle at 90nm : Power Consumption and Performance Compared: "Still, for a processor which has been designed from the ground up for desktop operation, the “Winchester” Athlon64 processor is a terrific achievement in terms of power consumption and heat production. Even at its highest 2.2 GHz clock speed, our Athlon64 3500+ “Winchester” chip ran exceedingly cool (testing at anywhere between 30-35C under load), which allowed our CPU cooling system to run nearly silent. When combined with a GeForce 6800 GT graphics processor, our system’s peak power consumption levels stayed at 200W and under, impressive considering the high-end nature of our system’s graphics card, hard drive, and motherboard. You don’t need an incredibly high wattage power supply for a “Winchester” Athlon64 system, just as you don’t need one for a “Dothan” Pentium-M system."

TabletPCReviewSpot.com Forums - Performance of 2.5 Year Old 2 Ghz Pent. M (Tecra 9100) vs 2 Ghz Sonoma Pent. M in M4?

First, let's clarify some terminology. There is no such thing as a "Centrino" chip. Centrino is a platform that combines a Pentium M processor with Intel's wireless technology. When the two are mated, an ISV can call a system "Centrino". If they use a different wireless solution, they can't call it Centrino. The processor is a Pentium M regardless.

That said, the Pentium M has a higher IPC (instructions per clock cycle) than the Pentium 4 desktop processor, so at the same Ghz speed, a Pentium M would be a "faster" processor. When I say faster, of course, I mean capable of processing more information per clock cycle. Incidentally, this is the same reason why AMD processors perform so well compared to equal speed Pentium 4 processors ... higher IPC. A Pentium M processor at 1.6Ghz is roughly equivalent in processing performance to a 2GHz Pentium 4.

Now then, the early Pentium M processors were also known by the codename "Dothan". "Sonoma" is the codename for the newer Pentium M processors. Both can be called "Centrino" if using an Intel wireless chip (so you can have a Dothan Centrino, or a Sonoma Centrino).

Sonoma is capable of higher bus speeds because it uses a more advanced chipset (any combination of a memory controller chip, north bridge chip, and south bridge chip), so an equivalent processor speed on a Sonoma might indeed feel faster than a Dothan processor. Sonoma also have the ability to use DDR2 RAM and SATA hard drives, both of which will increase performance as well. The "speed" of a laptop is a carefull balancing act of a lot of different technologies.

In your case, however, you said you had a Pentium M 2Ghz processor (sounds like Dothan) already, and were wondering if it would be faster with the same processor in a Sonoma-based machine. The answer is "probably". Sonoma is a more advanced chipset, and there will be some small performance gains across the board, so it should be marginally faster. Is it worth upgrading to a whole new machine for? Not likely.

Tom's Hardware Guide PCs & HowTo: The Next Generation of Cool: AOpen's 37 Watt Pentium M Desktop PC - Our Testing System: Minimum Power Draw - 37 Watts!

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broadband » Notebook and Laptop FAQ: "
What does it mean to condition one's battery?

Over time, you may notice that your battery doesn't hold a charge as long as it used to. This may be caused by frequent charges/drains or infrequent battery use. It is recommended that you 'condition' your battery a few times a year to get the most out of it. To do this, simply charge your battery to the fullest and then disconnect the AC plug. Make sure any power saving alarms or options are disabled and simply let your notebook run until it completely drains the battery and turns itself off. Plug your notebook back in and completely recharge the battery before using it. This conditioning or 'cycling' of the battery will help it retain a fuller charge for a longer period of time"

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SXGA - 1280x1024
SXGA+ - 1400x1050
UXGA - 1600x1200
WXGA - 1280x720
WSXGA+ - 1680x1050
WUXGA - 1920x120"

broadband » Notebook and Laptop FAQ

broadband » Notebook and Laptop FAQ: "Although clocked slower, the performance of a 1.6 Ghz P-M outpaces the performance of a 2.2 Ghz P4-M. The Pentium M is very roughly 1.5-1.6x as fast as a P4 for gaming. For 3D rendering, 2D apps (Photoshop, Flash MX), and media encoding, even a 2.0 GHz P-M cannot match the performance of a 3.2 GHz P4."

So Long, Gigahertz? Understanding Intel's New Processor Numbering System

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GamePC - Ingenious Solution : Asus CT-479 Adapter and the Pentium-M 770

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