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Metastasis.

Not a surprise, but considering the inherent problems of M$ Awfice, It'll probably not spread to any systems administered by sentient beings.

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Why cant you silicon valley people appreciate just how long it takes us to actually get to your beloved san jose from our side of the world and give us just a tiny bit more notice.... 6 months would be good so i could get nice cheap flights :)

Try living just down the coast in Santa Cruz (Capitola, actually) and still being unable to make it. :6

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Oop, Feathers McGraw. I wonder why I saw Carruthers somewhere...

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Beware the penguins

That was Feathers Carruthers, Tux's evil twin.

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"Why, yes, I'm a self made man... I just ran make on myself this morning..."

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Gawd how I hate this over-and-inappropriately-used word Solution:

Buy the NT box and plop Linux on top of it ;-)

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I assume it's too late to order a PDP-11...

sniff

I'll have to settle for RSTS emulation on something silly, like a PC.

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Janeway: The Borg have stopped. Reading?

7 of 9: Scans reveal all electronic systems are non-functional.

Janeway: The Bord dead? What could have caused this? A computer virus? A reactor failure? Ripley?

7 of 9: Further scans detect traces of Tide on their Techno Jackets, It is my conclusion they accidentally put them in Regular Laundry instead of Dry Clean.

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Woo hoo!

Always wanted some of that spiffy SGI stuff, just couldn't afford it. Now I'll be able to and hack in the features *I* want. =)

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A ball cap with monitor, speakers and microphone stitched in

Diapers with poop alarm

Stain detecting white shirts

Socks which zap foot fungii

Techno Trousers!

Ties that detect stupidity and strangle the wearer

Underwear which atomizes an odor neutralizer upon detection of methane

I mean, please use technology for something we can all benefit from, ok?

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You are far too kind to Mr. Michael Dell.

Dell is pricing these higher because Linux has more than just legitimacy, it's desirable.

In short, Linux is hot, he's a business man and he knows how to make money.


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statistics are almost always twisted to show one side of an argument

That's why some folks say, "There's lies, damn lies and statisitics.

Helps to know who's running them, what their setup is and how impartial they are.

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Fixed costs to the wind, recurring costs I gotta keep an eye on ;-)

It's gonna be a long year, the Hammer won't be out until late '01.

Link

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dedicate his time and resources to new Linux ventures

Another suit enters the fray. Does anyone think he's actually visionary? Methinks a good barometer would be to see how Corel fairs without him. If it prospers then when you see him walking toward you run!

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We are doomed!

Lessee..
Linux watches
Linux game machines
Linux in microcontrollers
Linux for x86-64
Linux Lego Toys
Linux infested with AOL
LinuxWorld in full swing in San Jose (across town, but I'm stuck at work :(

Yeah, I guess it's not just for breakfast anymore, but it still stays crunchy in milk!

"Resistance is useless" - Popular saying aboard big yellow things which hang in the atmosphere exactly like a brick doesn't.

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You must be in superuser to use wizard mode.

Oh, that'll be fun for the cheat-codes publications.

Ten Easy Ways to Gain su Access

Seriously, if the game consoles come with a standard video card, why is it a concern about drivers?

These consoles only attaction will be in downloading games (probably crammed with advertisements) off cable and playing head-to-head. Once the newest version, scenery pack, etc., etc., comes out you update (probably for a nominal fee) same way you got it. Screw CD's and everyone knows the first thing you do with manuals is throw them away.

I dunno, tho, if I'm gonna be ready for Larn 3D: The Lance of Death

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Segmentation fault (core dumped)

NT has been running on Alphas in a sort of interpreted mode, um, iFx86, or somesuch and is most definately NOT native. Witness that Win2k is available only for x86 platforms.

You're referring to FX!32. Per my understanding from discussions with DEC personnel, DEC granted M$ license to VMS internals, which are the foundation of NT. For M$'s part they agreed to develop NT for the Alpha platform and to support it. How else are you going to explain the very pragmatic goons at M$ providing an O/S for such a small population of processors?

I also don't believe it would be possible to run an entire O/S, libraries, etc. through FX!32 as the O/S is tied to the architecture. Although such blantant stupidity didn't stop M$ from passing off faulty basic ROM's back in the late 70's.

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Expect Linux powered Sledgehammer to be pushed out into the server market, initially. Probably into the workstation market. Price will determine how fast it appears in this order:

A. Hobbyist/Gamers
B. Executive who just has it for prestige
C. Engineering Workstations
D. Mindless drones
E. People who actually need one
E. Web Developers ;-)


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MS should have fun playing catch up with the Windows monstrosity

Sorry to bust your bubble, but NT has been running on Alphas for years. (A condition, I understand, of DEC granting M$ a peek at VMS) Probably not a big deal for M$ to gum up the Sledgehammer with NT. That it follows x86 architecture, AMD probably has not been busy running from a gift horse, expect all M$ stuff to already have been tested in 32bit mode.


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"Um, how do I like keep evil internet pirate mutants outta my cable modem?"

Yes, like, Inebriated State University developing version of Xfree86 written in Java. Project lead, Professor Fnordstrom, says, "Where can we get enough CPU power to run this sucker?"

To which poster Analogous Crowbar responds, "FP!"



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struct t_pat {seg *segptr,int *int,string *string);

Yeah, you're right, and maybe a RAID-5 while I'm at it...

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Oh gosh. There was a review of various Linux flavors I was just reading last week... Ah, here it is... a bit dated, but something to start from.

Link

HTH

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AMD Sledgehammer

SuSE Linux

VIA PC 266 chipset (64bit equiv.)

DDR SDRAM

Mobo for all of that

Overclocking tips from Tom's

SCSI controller and 4x45GB 10000RPM drives

A 3D supported LCD letterbox montor

THX surround sound

DVD burner

A DSL provider who actually delivers

100 lbs Kona Espresso beans, 500 lbs mixed Jelly Bellies (no apple, please) & a Thai delivery which stays open past 10 PM

Thanks!

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How soon before it runs 2-bit Linux? ;-)

Considering the number of atoms to a Mole, it would probably still require the average brick to run windows...

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AOL for Linux

IBM embraces Linux (whodathunkit?)

Red Hat's IPO

Oracle embraces Linux

What next? Even tho Linux is a threat to the M$ empire, there once was a M$ flavor of Un*x, what's to stop them from co-opting Linux in the same manner they attempted with Java? Hm?

Introduce M$ XLinDow$

Crank out M$ office

Code bloat the hell out of M$ versions of every application and utility

Discredit the whole heap when it collapses

Claim Window$ superiority

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That's no moon...

That's the deathstar!

What next Microsoft Office?


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SQL interface

Back end benchmarks

transactions

fault tolerance

As a quasi technical man, I try to keep out of the street as much as possible, to avoid that run-down feeling.

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Every day that goes by that I haven't heard the demise of this venerable, one-time leader, I'm amazed. IBM must want their office space...

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Oracle?
Sybase?
Informix?
Pick? (c:
MSSQL

or Flat ASCII text files (Yay!)


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[you can fight it by bringing skinheads out into the open and showing people how ridiculous and small-minded they really are]

Exactly what I viewed on Larry King, on CNN, a few years back. Some skinheads, of the aryan wannabe type, were touting some propaganda about races, etc. and point-blank Larry informed them that he was jewish and what problem they had with that. They looked very foolish and I imagine they wanted to go back home right away after that. Larry & CNN gave these imbeciles, and their alleged academic piece full airing rather than censor any bit.

The actions of the french laws serve to mystify this trash and give it some sense of credibility with a conspiratorial manner.

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Well, the Alpha would have a much bigger market penetration if it wasn't so damn expensive. Do you really want to spend $3000 just for the CPU and motherboard? I know I don't have that money. I suspect that an awful lot of people are in that situation.

Otherwise, aside from that and the occasional lack of 64bit cleanness, the Alpha is a nice platform.

You also don't have the time to even look. As an example, go to Microway and look at their Alpha workstations. A 533MHz 21164 w/NT4 or RH6.2 for $1,995. I'm pretty sure I've even seen lower prices on Alphas, shop around.

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Sorry I wasn't more clear, the Bourse in Marseille is a mall.

I was there about 8 years ago and couldn't find a shirt or anything suitably french to take home as a souvenir/gift. Nothing but american fashions, sharper image, et al.

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Not for sale, but used as example. These are crown type silver coins from the 1700's-1800's, counterstamped with swastikas, among other chinese characters. To see more info on other meanings to the symbol Mr. Hitler degraded follow this link.

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University of Marseille

If this University is indeed in Marseille, you shouldn't worry. Take a walk in the Bourse, it should cure any homesickness you have for the typical american suburban mall.

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If the french courts apply this to Yahoo, eBay will follow suit.

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However, this raises the whole issue of censorship

You don't fight Nazism by practicing its methods.

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But fascism by court decree...

I wish Europe would get over this awful era. I've got some nifty items which bear swastikas, which were made at least 100 years before WWII. Would I have to accompany these with some french certificate before selling on Yahoo?

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but if you wait to buy stock until they're proven the only money you can make is on their profits, which won't be much. That's why they call it *speculation*!

Oh, you must be new here, didn't they have insider trading on your planet? Nothing like a few benchmarks against readily available technology, if not the stuff the R&D guys have on their benches.

Did U know IBM owned stock in Intel? So while the PC was being cloned IBM still made a killing?

"Faskinatin" -- Popeye

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Nothing new there (Anyone attend a Westech? "I won't steal your IT employees if you don't steal mine, now just turn around for a sec. ;), but by golly, I thought the post was referring to the Reform Party at first.

Seems art imitates friction...

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is a big move for Intel.

Moral of the story: Don't buy stock until their product has been proven better.

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The Pentium 4 is coming soon, but it is only the first of a number of products coming from Intel in the next 16 months.

Translation: RSN (an acronym for the big lie of the 80's)

The company is preparing to launch its Pentium 4 early in the fourth quarter and will follow the release with a number of processors for different product segments, according to sources. The chip will run at 1.4 GHz, Intel has said.

At the best it will be out and will not have bugs. A the worst it's a bluff attempt to encourage buyers to put off that purchase of a Ghz AMD for the holidays. Considering the problems observed noted on Tom's Hardware Page with a PIII attempting to run 1.13 Ghz, this seems excessively optimistic. IMHO Tom Pabst jumped the gun a bit to trample Intel, shoot first and call Intel PR later, I'm cynical enough to consider this a ploy to prop up Intel reputation, if not 4th quarter stock value.

Toward the end of the third quarter in 2001, the company will come out with Northwood, an improved version of the Pentium 4, according to Bert McComas, an analyst at InQuest Market

Improved: With the Bugs worked out?

Before that, in the middle of 2001, Intel will come out with Tualatin, a version of the Pentium III made on the 0.13-micron process, more advanced than the current 0.18-micron process, McComas said. The micron measurements refer to the size of certain features on the chip. By shrinking the features, a manufacturer can make the chip smaller as well as boost its performance.

Along with being faster, Tualatin will also contain a larger secondary cache, a bank of memory close to the processor that boosts performance, according to one source. Tualatin Pentium IIIs will contain 512KB of integrated cache, compared to 256KB of integrated cache on current Pentium IIIs.

Maybe Titilation would be a better name. Why continue to develop the PIII and Celeron with the PIV out? Shouldn't one of these (PIII | Celeron) be dumped?

Tualatin will also come with a 200-MHz system bus.

This actually sounds more exciting.

The Pentium 4 and its successors come at a pivotal time for the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker. The company has not been able to meet demand for many of its processors since last November. The chronic shortages, combined with the success Advanced Micro Devices has enjoyed with Athlon, have allowed AMD to capture a substantial position in the consumer market.

The most telling, "RSN, RSN!!"

The Pentium 4 is expected to give Intel the advantage over AMD in performance, according to analysts.

Analysts who haven't read about the AMD 64bit CPU.

Northwood will be made on the 0.13-micron process. The shift to this more advanced manufacturing process will allow Intel to boost the clock speed.

Just 0.13 microns thicker than vapor. Wow!

Overall, Rambus will occupy only a niche, he said. "It's a pretty clear admission that Intel is not going to make more of Rambus than the market is willing to make of it," he said.

Rambus would make a good name for a clown...

Intel could not be reached for comment and typically does not comment on product code names or unreleased products.

But their happy to comment on vapor.

Intel executives have said that Pentium 4 will be ready for the holiday buying season in 2000.

Read: Gift buying season.

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This topic must have come in from the very-old-news-department, because it's been tossed about for months already

Cyrix' CEO (I am not sure if he still has that position now at VIA) affirmatively promissed a "1Ghz CPU by the end of 1999" in early 1999 in an interview with the Maximum PC magazine. Where the hell is that 1Ghz CPU for god's sake?

The keyword left out of the /. article was Samuel is a CYRIX processor.

Nice post guys.

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As much as I love Intel (kinda a love-hate thing), and you guys. And I am typing this on a PIII.

X86 Architecture is played out and breathed its last a long time ago.

How about they quit just raising the bus speeds, and give us some new technology.

Precisely why I only bought a token P1 system just to do some windows apps. I 've spent my life working on big systems and usually dismissing PC, etc. lightly. When I plunk down the money (subtracted from my copius Addictions budget (coffee, chopmarks, etc.)) I'll be doing it for a superior piece of engineering, not some Gee Whizzy.

Background: I grew up in Michigan, the Posi-Traction State, and have endurred hype over newer, faster, sexier cars for decades. The best comparison I can make to this announcement is when Buick made some 400hp GNX something or-other. One reviewer hit the target, dead center, with this brief description, "powerful and fast, but still handles like a cow."

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So, what we've got is a happy medium from AMD, while they and we wait for Intel to define the new standard.

It's my sincere belief that the market drives the new standard, not the manufacturer. Before thinking AMD plays it too safe by going this route, what do you make of 8088, 8086, 80286, 80386, 80486 and pentium, seems like Intel followed a trend, why expect it to be bucked?

What AMD is doing is establishing a standard for 64 bit in a common PC. Before anyone scoffs, consider all the 700+ Mhz Quake machines people are buying. Yeah, like hell that's for homework or office work at home, sure...I believe you, you don't have to lie anymore.

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he Spectre of Ubertechnology (Score:2) by Dan Crash on Thursday August 10, @02:59PM PDT (#40) (User #22904 Info) http://www.apocatopia.com You know, I think this is a dim shadow of the point Bill Joy was making about the fundamental difference in kind between the Old Technology and the New. Ian Clarke, one Not Particularly Thoughtful Kid, decides copyright is bad. Or at least that he's bored. He decides to create and unleash a technology that subverts it. And it spreads. Suddenly the whole world begins to resemble what one person, or one small group of people, decided it should resemble.

Audio Tape Recorders

Video Tape Recorders

Photocopiers

The copy or cp command

Freenet, Napster & Gnutella

Each one allows the user the freedom of choice to use unethically.

Take away that freedom of choice and you have tyranny.

Every advance in information technology which expands duplication and distribution will be no different than me taping a CD and giving the tape to a friend.

It wasn't always such. Copyright is a modern practice that not all nations yet believe in. There are some good arguments either way, but these arguments inevitably drag technology into the debate and try to water it down or restrict it, which is infringing upon the ability of the ethical and unethical, alike to have their freedom of choice. Ergo...

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I appreciated the value of unrestricted resource and information sharing about 5 years ago, when arranging a simple trade of a couple sweatshirts across international boundaries.

Some may think nothing of this, but since I have conducted far more commerce around the world via the internet. Upon examination I, and my trading partners, are probably violating any number of trade, tarriff, informational or customs restrictions for either end of the transaction. Multiply this by a few thousand people and governments will sit up and take notice. Iran is already struggling with the internet. No doubt if a student is reading this post the government knows about it, and has evaluated this post for Evil Western Influence(TM)

A Free internet is vital, not just for my selfish purposes, but to bring down barriers, not erect them. I'm actually pretty thrilled, in a Berlin-Wall-Coming-Down way, when I think of how easy it has been to communicate and exchange around the world.

Worry when the only way you can communicate is through commercial enterprises (AOL, YAHOO, MSN, etc.) which may fall under goverment regulation.

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When I said "STILL no generally available hardware," I meant no IA64. Alpha's existence is obvious. So is PowerPC, but in spite of the fact that PowerPC-64 has been sold and IA64 hasn't, some have the former taking a dive before the marketed might of the latter.

The greatest likelihood of success for the IA64 is in Intel boxes, which 99% of the public are unaware of. Bang for the buck, these machines will see limited service. When Intel & other vendors ever get around to trying to sell VLIW to the public and business they'll find it's like being the last girl scout out to sell cookies, "Sorry, we've already bought some."

The lightweight market will be taken by Crusoe, which is expected to be the market for VLIW for the next year, at least.

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Um... I think I started to write an unobfuscated Hello World in Perl, in 1997, it's up to 2,500 lines, but sure looks orderly. I hope I can just get it running in time!

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