The collected works of guardian452 - Page 15

vishnu wrote: Did you include skyrocket from rss? On my V12 equipped 600MHz Octane2 skyrocket drops something like 19 out of every 20 frames...

It ran great on that old infinitereality onyx of mine which you poo-pooed because it was so old (1995). Ok, not 60hz but it could easily hang at 30 or 20 most of the time.

ISTR The only one it really struggled with was hyperspace.

Eagle, and I don't do much circuit sim but NI multisim (in vmware fusion) for the few instances it has come in handy. I have toyed with a dozen different EDA programs for unix but have never really stuck with just one, or had the need to stick with just one. Multisim seems to be the simplest for me, tho.

I also spend a fair bit of time with matlab/simulink, but the support costs for our current ECU ("turn-key" from an engineering outfit since before I started here) are fairly outrageous. I am evaluating a system that uses either pure C or Codesys instead. Per-ECU hardware costs are higher but software and support drop to just about nothing. Unless we magically start building hundreds of vehicles per month it is a win. At which point I would seriously consider a DIY approach. We (me and our rep) have been bit by odd bugs in an unknown 3rd party wrapping layer many times as there are many different parties to blame (us, the support engineer, the hardware manufacturer, their software, and mathworks)

The simulink approach would make more sense if we had an ICE. An EV is just not complicated enough to justify it.

There is also a fair amount of semi-automated scripted stuff I've set up for small production runs that I'm sure could be done in windows but it either isn't easy or I just don't know how

theinonen wrote: software that works just as fine on Windows and some even better as the Windows versions usually come first and other versions are just put together with left hand and in a hurry.

Talking about 'other versions' you're preaching to the choir on this site. But I'm not concerned about having the latest and greatest, almost all of the programs I use are at least a few years old. And work just fine.

My wife's laptop has windows on it, I would not buy a windows computer now until they come out with a new version. She likes it but I don't. At least apple doesn't radically change anything (like microsoft did with windows 8 ) with each release... oh, wait..

Reminds me of those shaved rubik's cubes.

http://www.theendearingdesigner.com/62- ... biks-cubes

Above 20 and you may have narcissistic tendencies, below 15 and you may have self esteem issues. I was given this test * and received a score of 6. :/

*by my wife who is reading The Narcissist Next Door by Jeffrey Kluger in an effort to understand my parents who have obvious and extreme NPD tendencies. Maybe because I was raised by such extremists I am going to swing the other way naturally, or maybe because I do have severe issues or am secretly genius after all


Because I'd rather talk about parent issues than how elon musk is going to kill us all with self-driving cars.

Hakimoto wrote:
Looking at ebay.de, explicitly "used" listings, these seem to go for EUR 350+ to be fair. (And some other people on ebay have some really sick ideas about pricing these, I mean 700 EUR for THAT just because it has an SSD inside? Please.)

Offers solicited. Anything reasonable will be passed on and considered.

I think your price is about what I'd pay for one that can shut all the way... And was not used by a smoker. Alas, not interested, just bought a rmbp last month so hopefully I'll be good for a while.

Your same number but in USD instead of euro would be slightly more reasonable.


There also the ebay sellers that try to sell old iphones (pre-3g) on ebay for thousands because they are rare or original. Right alongside the same model selling for $50

hamei wrote:

Oskar45 wrote:

hamei wrote: The new definition of hell is, to have something to type but stuck on an iBad or a "smart"phone.

You're not obliged to peruse these - surely, even in China, there's lot of alternative junk to choose from

Until you've actually struggled with the stuff yourself, how can you know the truth ? Marketing sure won't tell you. They know less than a plumber.

In fact, I had a Touch - the iPhone without a phone ? and it seemed like it would be almost good. A larger screen would have made it perfect. So the iBad came out and there we were, perfect.

Except I forgot about software iBad software licks the percolating scrota of deceased bovine creatures which have been rotting in the hot sun for extended periods of time.

So a week ago the Assist bought her Mum a new tablet because they are very nice for portability. And she chose (without any assistance from me) a Toshiba that runs Windows . She chose this so that Mum can run real software, not that worthless "app" crap that smells up the Universe today.

So far so good. The Mum is happy. I wish it were Windows 2000 but still, it's way better than the iBad. In fact, I'm feeling a touch of tablet envy ...

Ahhh, hamei, I don't know in china where they sell you a windows CD for $0.50 but here at the shooping mall there is an apple store and a microsoft store next to each other. At the apple store you can buy a last-year's ipad for about $250. The windows tablets from microsoft are starting at about triple that. I think their cheapest is over 600. Although the microsofties are much more fun because they have xboxes and etc. I've been in the apple store only once even though I have at least half dozen of their machines now. It looks dreadful and the people that work there are clueless assholes.

The software is plenty good enough for the 99.9999% of the people that buy them - all they need is internet safari and angry birds.

hamei wrote:

guardian452 wrote: I'd rather talk about parent issues than how elon musk is going to kill us all with self-driving cars.

Not a direct cause, but one of the effects of the car-society is an increase in narcissism ... It's difficult to imagine yourself as a super-privileged aristocrat when you are stuck sitting in a bus station with 11,000 smelly peasants

Is it an effect or is it a cause? The two go hand-in-hand. It's a me! me! me! I'm special! world... I like riding the bus, it just doesn't take me where I need to go here (unfortunately). I don't live on a route and neither does my work

http://www.macleans.ca/politics/america-dumbs-down/

Oh wait. Do I hear the cuckoo singing in the cuckooberry tree ?

But isn't this the way all modern browsers work? I mean, like safari and chrome and IE... I don't use the latter two but safari spawns a couple processes per tab/window each with a dozen or so threads and for the most part the different tabs don't have any performance affect on each other. I know chrome works the same way and IE tries hard to keep up.

For example, I can have a few tabs open here, including a pdf, a bunch of misc. crap, and some HD flash video on a separate screen. These things have nothing to do with each other. Even if the flash video crashes or buffers/stutters (which it does on occasion) the other windows keep working.

The way I understand it from a layperson's perspective, is that with modern systems making separate processes and threads within processes is relatively inexpensive so it is better to just spin off as many as possible (within reason) and let the OS sort out the scheduling. This makes sense for most 'desktop' interactive programs such as a web-browser. It may not make sense for NASA supercomputers.

On one of my machines I decided to do a clean install when I upgraded to Yosemite and I had to experience the internet without adblock for a few minutes until I realized what was wrong.. Some of my favourite sites became unusable without it.

Multi-core CPUs are very important for games. And a lot of games run in the browser nowadays. Me and the wife like to play shadowgun * and while we both use the dedicated mac and windows programs respectively, I would say 75% of the players play through facebook (the browser). Why? Well, I don't have a facebook but I'm guessing it (a) posts your scores and ranking to your friends and (b) you don't have to create a seperate account. (Shadowgun tells you what system each player is using in the rankings after each match)

* She says I'm too good at Unreal since I grew up with it (playing since the first one came out) and refuses to play with me anymore

I think the gaming advantage is lost with more than 4 cores but it most game engines make good utilization of two or three. I think a lot of people here still think a web-based game can't be a full-on 3D shooter, but that's not true anymore. I think it's silly but there sure are a lot of gamers there.

Another place lots of CPU chutzpah is needed in the browser is video streaming. I like NHL gamecenter live. There is an xbox app but they do regional blackouts a lot so of course you will need a "real computer" that can log on to a VPN and it doesn't seem worth it to try and set that up with the xbox. Unlike watching a film, cartoon, or even most other sports example football if your hockey stream drops a few frames and switches quality (i.e. down to 720@30fps) you WILL notice it... the puck disappears.



The JS in safari, chrome, IE and probably even firefox is multithreaded but it doesn't seem to make much difference, there is good unobtrusive JS that won't make a dent in CPU usage, and bad poorly written JS that will hang up the interpreter regardless of how good it is. Well written and efficient JS that is used for useful work and requires lots of computational power is non-existent. Except for synthetic browser benchmarks.

foetz wrote: yeah that cheap yosemite monitor is how a browser process tree could be made better. but only at first sight because that still won't speed up single pages but only adds some failsafe and you can load pages in parallel each page taking one cpu ... whoever does load multiple pages at the same time

what i'd like to have is all cpus working on the same page because otherwise you have no speedup

In all fairness, the networking process and internal database are both multithreaded. It is just a different method of doing things. If you have a single page with a flash or js all of that is separate multithreaded processes. I think it is better even if you have a single CPU because one bad process is not going to wreck the whole program.

hamei wrote: 'Modern' as in 1993 ? Read OS/2 programming docs : it's nice to know that someone besides IBM finally figured it out but 'modern' ? Only in geological terms

No, modern as in anything available today. Of course your beloved OS/2 did it first, we get it. IBM brought out the T220 monitor fifteen years ago but it is only recently that we can get 2880x1800 in a macbook. It's the only "trickle down economy" that actually makes sense.

The point was not to show how superior apple/safari is to firefox but how awful firefox is compared to even internet explorer, which tries to behave similarly to safari/chrome even if it can't always succeed (a tab has crashed and all pages must be reloaded. OK?)

Just because Irix users have no choice does not mean that all web browsers are awful. I think the amount of work that has been put into keeping firefox running on irix is commendable, but Irix was never really meant for web browsing or anything "consumer oriented" in the first place so let's not kid ourselves. It was the same story 8 years ago. Irix was not meant for the web, there is no good browser, sites are too bloated, etc. Modern websites may be in sad state of affairs but fireflopping around in them is not going to make you any happier.

The marking looks handwritten - not a sticker like jurassic classic or other "special" sgis. Why not since it is apparently a one off. Maybe Steven Spielberg himself signed it for a promotion?

hamei wrote:

Irix was not meant for the web

I'm going to get the popcorn started and watch this

OK, let me rephrase that. Irix's web browser never evolved along with the rest of them because SGI's customers did not require it. Now we are stuck with firefox because there are so few brave souls left to work on it, the effort required to say port chromium to irix would be near impossible.

If I ever won the lottery I would be willing to fund such a project

Irix itself is of course just as capable as any other system if not more capable but without a browser... yeah I don't want to devolve into that thread again

vishnu wrote: That's practically what I paid for a quad 700MHz Tezro w/ multiple gigabit fiberchannels and full a DMediaPro suite last week...

But it didn't come with a bag! Worthless!

goldenamber wrote: I apologize for sounding dumb, but I think this is just took advanced for me. Can I add anybody on FB or chat anyway to talk more about this more directly? My FB is: https://www.facebook.com/nicholas.fitzsimons.3

At the very top of every page on the site:

Official Chat Channel: #nekochan // irc.nekochan.net

You might find somebody kind enough to help you there. Older machines can be tricky for networking if you have never done it before, but it's not hard to use, you just have to learn how to do it yourself. The (dis)advantage is, you only have to do it once and as long as you don't change anything, it will keep working forever. So when you change your router in 5 years you will have to learn it all over again If you are not smart enough to make notes.

Ebay is simple. You figure out how much you can afford to pay and put in your bid. If somebody else can pay more, you lose. Ebay automatically bids for you so if your max bid is sky high you will not have to pay too much if nobody else comes close.

My only wish is that they would extend the ending time like ebid or dovebid, or at least make it an option for the sellers, if there is a bid in the last 10 minutes or so.

Put windows 10 (the "technical preview") on an old thinkpad t61 I had lying about .. it's kinda nice or I have really warped ideas about what to do for fun on the weekends

I'd probably like it more if this old thinkpad had a battery - any battery would do - or at least if the power socket wasn't so loose Runs pretty well considering this machine is close to a decade old.

Besides, nowadays M$ is the supposed underdog and therefore we should all be cheering them along

So far I have two working lightbars if anyone feels the need for incandescent power lights.

If you really wanted an incandescent light you could buy bulb #2723 or similar from an auto parts store...

foetz wrote:

llama wrote: I'm certainly not married to bash, I guess I just need to set up tcsh (or similar) properly so I have the things I'm now used to (up arrow history, tab completion with choices, ctrl-c break, etc etc). Is there a list of shells available on the system (eg an /etc/shells equivalent)? I seem to have a limited selection but I'm only eyeballing the bin directory so maybe they're stashed somewhere else?

if you wanna see which shells are there by default just have a look into /usr/bin and /sbin.
tcsh does cover what you listed except for tab completion with multiple choices. if that's a must you need to grab zsh from nekoware. if the nekoware zsh should cause problems because you're on 6.5.14 you can alternatively use mine for 6.2 which works fine with all 6.5.x versions.

The inverse exercise would be to try out tsch on your mac or linux and see how it does on a machine you are already familiar with. Just something to consider.

Once you've seen it, you can never unsee it...
http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/ ... -stop.html


@sgifanatic: what movie is that? LOL, my arm is sore already...

Oh, I try to avoid the news. It's too depressing. Besides, I don't have any TV service (cable, satellite, antenna, etc).

Normally, I only get to spend a few hours a week watching TV (either streaming through tunnelr, bittorrent+rss, netflix, etc) and that's if I'm lucky. I'm not going to waste my TV time on news.

Bump.

So at some point I decided to keep an eye out for a data east "star wars", because we are star wars fans.. but then I found this site:
http://howtobuildapinballmachine.wordpress.com/2014/01/

I'm good with electromechanical controls (it's kinda my day job) and I can be not-bad at woodworking too, if I take my time. Seems like there are decent sources of old parts around (e.g. flippers, coils, etc), or I could buy a junk machine for the cabinet and get a lot of bonus parts gratis.

This is handy since I found FCB pinball on iOS and have been playing it quite a bit, since I haven't played a computer pinball since, uhhh, space cadet, I'm very impressed. I would be willing to build it in real life. I've spent a lot of time playing it and it is a fun table in virtual-land. Not to mention it's also one of the few free games on iOS that aren't hamstringed by timers or in-app purchases (viz. southpark from a few weeks ago...).
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fcb-pin ... 06943?mt=8

To real pinball fans: Is this a good idea? How do home built games stack up to just buying a real one? The design is solid and I can pilfer the sound, gameplay, and graphics right from the app. Maybe cheating, but I'm not a very creative person on my own.

One of the requirements for movieOS is of course a monochromatic screen...

Fyi: Kvaser Canking with Woodward's Mototune in background, in vmware fusion with f.lux running for good measure. I actually use this setup regularly especially now that the daylight hours are scarce, it matches our dashboard lighting at night.

A LOT of people ask what program is that, what kind of computer is that, etc, etc when they see f.lux working in darkroom mode..

I got it one piece at a time,
and it didn't cost me a dime...

Do they even make computers with spinning disks anymore? And can spinning disks handle that many read/writes, either? If they did, would they take 100 years to get there?

My mac pro has a spinning disk and while it's a beast of a machine graphics/cpu wise, the disk is unbearably slow. Since it isn't much of a bottleneck for what it does I have put off upgrading it thus far but oy vey! You get used to little things happening instantly very quickly, and then it is like coming back to the stone age. Up there with it's... uhhh... decidedly non -retina cinema lcd.

with SSDs in all my machines i do a lot more backups now though considering that it seems impossible to retrieve anything from a dying/defective drive.

my 4 year old mac air has it's original SSD, it was my first SSD and before that I typically killed a laptop's disk in less than a year on average. Even a toughbook. I have even gotten off the crazy religious back up train since then and just let time machine do it's thing.

Had some code projects go from 45 minutes down to 5 minutes for clean builds.

That doesn't shock me at all.

My wife has a sony VAIO and it has the best of both worlds, a large spinning disk with an (8 or 16GB-ish??) SSD that functions as a large cache. It works quite nicely. Since the only real complaint with an SSD equipped machine should be that for a decent amount of space it gets pricey, quickly, it is the best of both worlds.

foetz wrote: i never felt the need for an ssd. i simply don't need that speed neither want that kind of "reliability"

And let me guess, a carburetor is more "reliable" than fuel injection, because there are no electrical gremlins to worry about?

GIJoe wrote: guardian: sounds like your wife is running what apple calls a fusion drive. what happens with that if the SSD part fails? is the data from the big disk in such an event retrievable (and complete)?

Sony calls it a "Hybrid HDD" and I have no idea how it really works since we have a sort of "I don't touch yours and you don't touch mine" attitude although from what I can see it works well- for example when we play games together maps and etc take the same amount of time to load on her vaio and my "pure" SSD - equipped rMBP. Both machines are an order of magnitude faster than a spinning disk e.g. going from 20-30 second loading times to 3-5 seconds.

As for SSD failing I would be more concerned about the mechanical part failing. In any event, data recovery is a tricky and expensive exercise in the best of times and since it's not part of their warranty we just back it up like my laptop to the mac pro. We would either call sony to have them repair/replace the machine. Once the warranty expires just replace the drive myself, and re-install from the restore DVD like any other PC. Since she is not that hard on it I am not anticipating any failures barring an accident.

I know other PC makers offer similar setups; software-wise, I believe windows 8 knows what to do automatically and all that comes from Sony is the device drivers. Of course Apple offers the same thing and calls it something different.

I don't know if it is all one unit or if there is a separate pcie SSD and SATA hdd.

¡ I have friends again !

I never use any of that fancy stuff but nekochan sure looks great especially on mobiles now

Jose: I've only recently started using rss, now that it is dead to the rest of the world. I should add nekochan to my feeds...

NetNewsWire works for me, and I spend a lot less time browsing around various bullshit. I read my news and blogs and move on in life.

I don't drink very often (last drink I had was one glass of champagne at new year's) and before that, maybe two months, a beer? As far as commodity beers go I like Leffe and Guinness but again, I don't drink very often.

However, does anybody know if it is possible to get a decent Portuguese medronho/aguardiente in the USA ? One of the few drinks I really like. I live close to the bourbon trail, so bourbon balls are a favorite are mine.

Does the disk thrashing show up in activity monitor/task manager/etc ? Should not be that hard to find the offending process unless it really is the disk itself.

Think I'm ready to start building the playfield and cabinet, but I have a lot of other things going on. Aside from being super-busy at work I've been collecting parts for another electric sports car project (have a set-aside power converter, OBC, and about 28 usable kWh of lifepo4's set aside to go into my old mazda, and just picked up a borgwarner egear with trashed bearings).

Anyways, I have the layout and artwork pretty well aped from the iphone. I uploaded a video, still concerned about what a real pinball-wizard thinks of the design. (don't worry, I wouldn't be able to do something from scratch anyway) Don't want to invest the effort on something that isn't going to work in the real world.

vimeo down sampled the file to 30fps, sorry.
https://vimeo.com/117046028
(and let's ignore the fact that I'm not good at pinball especially with a touchscreen )

<Tinfoilhatmode>virus! Virus in the disk itself!

Well, I suppose it's possible...

Looks good enough for me to spend my own money on. But then again, I also have a kinect, zune, xbox360, so I might be a bit of a "fanboi"

Don't understand the kinect hate? Pretty amazing stuff out there that people are doing with it, even if most of us only use it for games.

Yosemite is a buggy bitch on my new MBP. It is slow like molasses on my old MBA, even if it doesn't crash as often. Both have weird bugs. ranging from the browser, to cursors in the wrong spot, to plain old text entry.

But I have not had a single problem with it on my *officially unsupported* with-a-hacked-efi 2006 mac pro. I even use the web, ftp, vpn, and calendar syncing in OSX server. And it runs Plex. And two windows VMs. And games.

It has not gone down once, the last reboot was when I allowed it to update to 10.10.1.



36 days is hardly impressive but given 10.10's reputation for flakiness (which it apparently recevied over just the past two weeks :/ ), somebody must have spilled magic fairy dust on my box to accomplish this?

Everybody knows Earth would be much better off without humans. Anyways, now you can have your patented & licensed apple variety if you want eye-popping if a bit hollow tasting apples. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/1 ... n-the-club

Maybe in the post-apocalyptic future only the patent-encumbered and highly engineered varieties will grow at all ?

In related news, were bananas fourteen inches long before 1980 as well? Because, I think it is to the point where it is messing with some old recipes. E.g. a curry or pudding or whatever calls for two, but then you can't taste anything else and the texture is well off. And one fruit is more than one serving nowadays. In fairness, the price hasn't gone up any but you buy a 3 pound bunch of bananas and you get like 5 of them. The organic ones you pay more but you get 8 or 10 in the same weight. Most people don't eat or use bananas by weight but per fruit.

And don't get me started on tomatoes. You gotta grow them yourself or pay $10 at whole foods to get some real fucking tomatoes anymore. So this year I've got some big pots for the balcony. tomatoes peppers (bell, banana, jalapeños..) and some herbs.

(dearest recondas and neko, feel free to move this to another discussion because hamei and me like to talk about it all the time)

Have fun with your super-innovative hololens. Damn, you can play such cool games ! Maybe that will be what you can do when there's nothing to fucking eat.

Maybe Microsoft can make a hololens for our tongues, and we'll all have soylent green through a tube but it will be so delicious! And we can have an itunes library full of different dinners! You an rent an "album" from Chris Ruth's or the Cheesecake Factory! An itunes library full of exotic cars, you just put on your holo-lens, holo-nose, holo-tongue, and holo-suit and get in your self-driving googlemobile (does it actually have to physically move at this point? Or can you just lie in a rack with other human fleshbags?) and rub wheels with Jackie Stewart in a Cosworth DFV !

In all fairness, microsoft comes up with stuff like this all the time. (I was just reminded of how the surface-table was going to take over every nightclub and coffeeshop a few years ago...) I'll believe it when I see it. I don't see how there could be a security issues robes mentioned, from what I can tell you still see everything around you, but it can "project" holographs in your field of vision.

3,1 (e.g. 2008, 5400-series) is supported by apple: you push the button on the app store and cross your fingers that it works... and that's it.

a 1,1 is 2006 model (32-bit) and a 2,1 is the exact same machine but with 8 cores. (so, you upgraded the CPU?) Neither one is supported by apple so you must put your board-id and tiamo's 64-on-32 boot.efi into a custom install disk. Also, the dog-turd of a 7300GT that is nearly 10 years old and was junk when new is not supported but apple will happily sell you a beefy new radeon to replace it.

smj wrote: Threadjacking alert! Threadjacking alert!

guardian452 wrote: a 1,1 is 2006 model (32-bit) and a 2,1 is the exact same machine but with 8 cores. (so, you upgraded the CPU?)

Close - the EFI and SMC firmware are different between the two models, as well as what CPUs came in them. You want the 2,1 EFI because it includes support for the Clovertown CPUs, and some fixed microcode. Anyway I upgraded the system EFI to 2,1 and the CPUs to a pair of X5355. (Haven't updated the SMC to the 2,1 version, which might be behind a sleep/resume issue in Windows 7.)

yep, still looking for a second of X5365 to put in. I had a pair of 5355's ready to go but received an x5365 (3ghz) at the low low price of free, and it is just waiting for it's mate. Still working on maxing out the ram and next will be a pcie SSD from OWC. I'm not nervous about swapping the CPUs but it is a lot of work and the machine is at my house, yet all my tools are at work... It's just not a priority right now. And I think those upgrades will keep me well satisfied until the first-gen trashcans come down in price If I need real cpu power (typically video rendering) there is the rMBP for that.

smj wrote:

guardian452 wrote: Neither one is supported by apple so you must put your board-id and tiamo's 64-on-32 boot.efi into a custom install disk.

I went with the newer Piker-Alpha bootloader, which I gather is a fork of tiamo's, and prepared a USB drive with a Yosemite installer tweaked to allow the 1,1 and 2,1 board IDs. Mostly worked, somehow despite replacing boot.efi in two different places on the thumb drive I still had a stock 10.10 boot.efi post-install and had to put the machine in target mode to fix it from the 3,1. (Hmm... I might have allowed a 10.10.1 update before I rebooted, now that I think about it...)

There is a handy shell script called sfott that will take care of everything for you. Just point it at your downloaded 10.10 installer and flash drive, and it takes care of everything else I have not had issues with minor version updates, but I had to re-install with a usb key when I went from 10.9 to 10.10.

smj wrote:

guardian452 wrote: Also, the dog-turd of a 7300GT that is nearly 10 years old and was junk when new is not supported but apple will happily sell you a beefy new radeon to replace it.

Well the 1,1 came without a video card, so I was using the 2600 XT from the 3,1 in it. (The 3,1 has a Sapphire Radeon 7950.) But I wanted something with more punch than the 2600 for games under Windows, so right now there's a flashed Sapphire 5850 in there. If I can figure out how to get a working EFI on the MSI R6950 from the Dell, I'll drop that in the 3,1 and move the 7950 to the 1,1. The 7950 is flashed, so I get boot screens from it on either machine. (Yes, I know about netkas.org; I first flashed a 9700 for my G4 Cube about 10 years ago, when smalldogs was the place to be...)

I ordered my pre-loved 1,1 with an official-Apple Radeon 5750. It has never struggled in OSX, but some games in windows in vmware fusion have struggled, even older games such as UT3. I blame vmware. I love this gpu and have never had an issue with the performance, my only complaint is unfortunately, the 5870 exists At the time, the 5870 would have doubled the cost of the machine So no *real* complaints with the 5770

It is currently on sale for $5 at GOG
http://www.gog.com/game/tesla_effect_a_ ... _adventure

I've never played a FMV before, but it looks really interesting and since the story features Tesla (looks like an operational Wardenclyffe in the trailer) it can't be that bad

I've downloaded it already, as soon as I get home again I'll play it. Warning, it's close to 17GB with the patch and took about an hour to download