May 07
I installed Firefox 1.0.3 yesterday and I guess it didn’t come as much of a shock that my extensions quit working. Rather, I should say, some of them quit working, some of them “reset” themselves so, while they still worked, their settings were back to default, and yet others kept on working without any trouble. [...] [...more]
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I installed Firefox 1.0.3 yesterday and I guess it didn’t come as much of a shock that my extensions quit working. Rather, I should say, some of them quit working, some of them “reset” themselves so, while they still worked, their settings were back to default, and yet others kept on working without any trouble.
I went from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3. If I have to go through and mess with my extensions for every little update it’s not worth the trouble of actually updating most of the time.
I didn’t think this was a huge deal when it was still beta, but come on. We’re past the first official release now and we still have to deal with this crap? Just think if every time you went to windows update and installed a patch you had to redo your background, explorer settings, and everything else. How annoying.
Then again, they need to come up with a better way of “upgrading” as well. How did I go from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3? Why, I downloaded the full copy of 1.0.3 and installed it of course. This is even the method that the upgrade function of Firefox uses. It would be a tad easier to just download a patch…
No wonder there’s been over 50 million downloads, the same people keep on downloading it over and over and over….
May 07
Tom’s Hardware is running an article entitled The Mother of All CPU Charts. It’s actually done in two parts, and it’s a comparison of processors starting from the Pentium 100 all the way to the (roughly) present.
I say roughly because this article was actually originally published in December. I just ran across it last week [...] [...more]
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Tom’s Hardware is running an article entitled The Mother of All CPU Charts. It’s actually done in two parts, and it’s a comparison of processors starting from the Pentium 100 all the way to the (roughly) present.
I say roughly because this article was actually originally published in December. I just ran across it last week myself, which shows how often I get over to THG.
Despite being 5 months late, I figured it was worth mentioning. It’s worth the read if you have any interest in CPU’s at all. Yes, there are pages upon pages upon pages of charts showing the benchmarks between all the processors, but it all starts off with a pretty detailed history of CPU’s which is interesting and brought back memories of days of old for me… The history itself doesn’t actually start with the P100 but rather with the original 8086, though they skip ahead to the late 80’s and 846’s pretty quickly.
It seems to give a conservative view of heatsinks though. They almost make it sound like you didn’t need any extra cooling even with slow pentiums. I think in part they’re refering to more of a heatsink/fan combo, but most 486’s even had heatsinks. Going off of my memory of the time, I’m guessing that pentiums wouldn’t have ran at all without any extra cooling whereas you could probably get away with it with slower 486’s. But then, you wouldn’t be able to overclock them if you didn’t have a heatsink….. The 486’s in particular were simple to overclock 25%-33% without problems…..My 486 DX2/66 became a DX2/80 without any trouble. Going up to 100MHz was too much. This only worked as a rule with Intel chips and AMD’s didn’t work as well for this purpose. Intel was probably just conservative with their labeling. (For anyone who doesn’t know, when they produce processors they get a whole wafer with a bunch of chips on it that they then split into individual processors. Defects are an inherent part of the manufacturing process and they basically take the chips that end up with a bunch of defects and label them to run at a slower clock speed. If you ever hear about a manufacturer getting a “good yield” then that means they’re not getting a lot of defects and are able to put out lots of higher speed chips. You’ll sometimes hear about problems with a bad yield with a new processor line that is making the latest and greatest one difficult to get a hold of.)
