Computar problem

[Spinaroonie]

Stupid people think parallel is a good format. Big problem. Firewire and USB are much better.

 

[Saint Peter]

Who is the idiot that put the USB on the front of the computer? It is always in the way and seems out of place. Works great for the wireless mouse and digi cam.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Haw haw

I have two in the back on my computer... two on my monitor... and two on my keyboard.

Get a hub.

 

[Saint Peter]

Such a cute little plug. Who could take it seriously? We like big bulky plugs like printer cables of the good old days.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Such a cute little plug. Who could take it seriously? We like big bulky plugs like printer cables of the good old days.

Ohhh yeah.. SCSI was the day.. when your daisy chain could be set off by flourescent light bulbs.

 

[Saint Peter]

You seem like a computer guy SD. I have three computers networked in the house. I have winamp on all three. How can I play one song simultaneously thru all the boxes?

 

[Spinaroonie]

You seem like a computer guy SD. I have three computers networked in the house. I have winamp on all three. How can I play one song simultaneously thru all the boxes?

The easiest way would be to set up winamp as a streaming radio, then you have the other two machines connect to the winamp stream.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Stupid people think parallel is a good format. Big problem. Firewire and USB are much better.

Any person with an ounce of electronics or computer systems knowledge knows that multiple conduits, all else being equal, have a larger potential for throughput than a single conduit.

Therefore cables that can send data in parallel are potentially better than those that send data serially. Most of the high speed connections in you computers, such as the internal bus, the IDE cables, and the SCSI cables (if you have them) have greater throughput than any serial connections you have.

Currently, Firewire has about one-third the throughput of the fastest available SCSI implementation. Theoretically, the Firewire spec calls for a bit more throughput than what SCSI now has, but that is so far a vapor implementation.

The real advantages of serial cables is that they can be longer, smaller, simpler and cheaper. For that reason, as they implement faster and faster throughput, they will supplant parallel cables and implementations. Internal connections will still be parallel for quite some time - at least until they go to optical internal cables which allow multiplexing of signals within the conductor. When that happens you may then see optical cables come outside of the box and we may have as much throughput outside of the CPU while still maintaining the convenience of a small and simple cable.

Oh, and it is "computer" not "computar".

 

[Spinaroonie]

Re: Re: Computar problem

Oh, and it is "computer" not "computar".

haha. You are not leet.