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kryogenix
http://www.theregister.com/2004/11/11/aol_axes_nullsoft/

you heard right. no more nullsoft. that means, no more winamp updates. no more shoutcast updates. sigh. another reason why i hate aol.
Mr. Psychotic
Damn...that sucks hard
tofumonzter
old news. tongue.gif

YOU HAVE 2 CPUS?! ohmy.gif
kryogenix
QUOTE(tofumonzter @ Nov 12 2004, 1:52 AM)
old news. tongue.gif

YOU HAVE 2 CPUS?! ohmy.gif

old news? the register broke the story yesterday...

i have only one cpu, hyper threading is enabled so it thinks i have two.
tofumonzter
QUOTE(kryogenix @ Nov 12 2004, 4:54 AM)
old news? the register broke the story yesterday...

i have only one cpu, hyper threading is enabled so it thinks i have two.

no. they said that they were going to break apart for a long time already. like nullsoft stopped working, and stuff. tongue.gif
wayne
sux.. ah well, i use windows media player anyways
DaTru KataLYST
no...more....WINAMP?!


*nervous breakdown time*
Tung
wtf.? this cant be!!!
acidbreeze
You can still use it, it's a good media player still.

www.wasabidev.org is an open source project on winamp3 - not surewhat that means, but look into that.
noaccounthere
QUOTE(kryogenix @ Nov 12 2004, 6:54 AM)
old news? the register broke the story yesterday...

i have only one cpu, hyper threading is enabled so it thinks i have two.

Incorrect. Your computer and windows XP will detect your Pentium 4 as one cpu. Hyper-threading helps the cpu compute more threads of information more efficiently compared to cpus in the past.

"To improve performance in the past, threading was enabled in the software by splitting instructions into multiple streams so that multiple processors could act upon them"


Notice it says software, the software itself has to support Hyperthreading. Not all applications are Hyperthreading enabled so in some cases hyperthreading yeilds no performance gains. If you want to say that hyperthreading is more than one cpus. It may handle information better, but it still has one set of l1 cache, l2 cache rather than if it was a dual processor setup.

There are dual procressor motherboards which support pentium 4's with hyperthreading. That would be considered having 2 cpus, hyperthreading on that would be very efficient!
demolished
wow, thanks for your lectures ! its very interesting telling us what you know about winap stuff biggrin.gif
comeupon
Ehhh I hated Winamp, way to many security bugs. For about 4 months Winamp disabled one of XPs firewall settings and allowed a huge flow of spyware and adware to unprotected computers.
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