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• Gosh, you do have a one-track mind. Your string library doesn't address resource management issues, uninitialized pointers, and many other problems that occur in real-life C and C++ programs every day.

• Why should we settle for only the "vast majority of all buffer overflow related problems" when 40 year old technology can catch not only all the remaining buffer overflow problems but also most of the problems that the string library doesn't even addresses?

The best thing that AMD can have happen for them on the corporate front would be to get major vendors like Dell, HP, and IBM to offer their chips in their products.

IBM and Sun are already offering AMD based workstations, in addition to HP blades and supercomputers. At least at the workstation and server level, it seems as if the major vendors are already offering them.

From the FAQ:

"In no particular order, OpenVMS components are implemented using Bliss, Macro, Ada, PLI, VAX and DEC C, Fortran, UIL, VAX and Alpha SDL, Pascal, MDL, DEC C++, DCL, Message, and Document. And this is certainly not a complete list. However, the rumor is NOT true that an attempt was made to write pieces of OpenVMS in every supported language so that the Run-Time Libraries could not be unbundled. (APL, BASIC, COBOL and RPG are just some of the languages NOT represented!)"

I actually have a copy of an old application that does many things like this (for Windows - 3.x and earlier), called HP Dashboard [by none other than Hewlett-Packard]. From what I've read, Borland was planning to purchase it at one point.

Some other Info:
[URL:http://www.wohl.com/g0040.htm]

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My Amiga GUI doesn't even need a dashboard.

I love these stories. There's aboslutely NO WAY that maybe, just maybe, Linux is simply not a good choice in a given situation. So people like you immediately turn to name calling and FUD spreading.

I'd bet you a good quid that if this story was reversed (that is, "HP dumps Windows for Linux") I'd be seeing the exact opposite comments from yours, to the tone of "Oh I've always liked HP they're a great company and Fiorina is slowly getting her act together blah blah blah".

Amusing, if nothing else.

Alpha based workstation with OpenVMS or Tru64

Sparc based one with Solaris9

Dual G5 Mac with OSX. say no more.

SGI ws with IRIX

HP (parisc)with HPUX

and last but not least an x86 compatible possibility:

Orion DS-96 Deskside Cluster Workstation. Yes, thats the number of CPUs in it.

FYKI

ps: no, I cannot afford them either. Yes, you could run Linux/BSD on all of them.

Alpha based workstation with OpenVMS or Tru64

Sparc based one with Solaris9

Dual G5 Mac with OSX. say no more.

SGI ws with IRIX

HP (parisc)with HPUX

and last but not least an x86 compatible possibility:

Orion DS-96 Deskside Cluster Workstation. Yes, thats the number of CPUs in it.

FYKI

ps: no, I cannot afford them either. Yes, you could run Linux/BSD on all of them.

Now they've degenerated into yet another money-hungry company who're afraid to tread new grounds or create something from scratch.

Perhaps you should try reading more...

ProCurve Networking by HP Launches Gigabit Switch Series that Offers Intelligence at the Network Edge

HP Introduces a Powerful, All-Digital Printing Solution for the Label Market

HP Makes Storage Networking Simple and Affordable for Growing Small and Mid-size Business Market

HP's New High-end Storage System Scales to Twice the Capacity of the Competition Without Disruption

HP Introduces Fall Lineup of Digital Photography, Music, TV, Home Projection and Entertainment Offerings in Time for Back-to-school and Holiday Shopping

HP Labs

Because HP doesn't recreate the transistor everytime it releases a new product does not mean they do not innovate. Meaningful innovation includes using the best technologies, or most adopted technologies in the market, and improving and enhancing them to improve the customer's satisfaction. There isn't much point to spending millions of dollars to recreate the iPOD, when everyone wants an iPOD and there are already a slew of other competitors out there. So... license the iPOD, add the ability to print customized skins to the iPOD, bundle iTunes with new HP PCs and offer customers the opportunity to bundle an iPOD with their HP purchases or through their normal HP sales channel.

Now they've degenerated into yet another money-hungry company who're afraid to tread new grounds or create something from scratch.

Perhaps you should try reading more...

ProCurve Networking by HP Launches Gigabit Switch Series that Offers Intelligence at the Network Edge

HP Introduces a Powerful, All-Digital Printing Solution for the Label Market

HP Makes Storage Networking Simple and Affordable for Growing Small and Mid-size Business Market

HP's New High-end Storage System Scales to Twice the Capacity of the Competition Without Disruption

HP Introduces Fall Lineup of Digital Photography, Music, TV, Home Projection and Entertainment Offerings in Time for Back-to-school and Holiday Shopping

HP Labs

Because HP doesn't recreate the transistor everytime it releases a new product does not mean they do not innovate. Meaningful innovation includes using the best technologies, or most adopted technologies in the market, and improving and enhancing them to improve the customer's satisfaction. There isn't much point to spending millions of dollars to recreate the iPOD, when everyone wants an iPOD and there are already a slew of other competitors out there. So... license the iPOD, add the ability to print customized skins to the iPOD, bundle iTunes with new HP PCs and offer customers the opportunity to bundle an iPOD with their HP purchases or through their normal HP sales channel.

Now they've degenerated into yet another money-hungry company who're afraid to tread new grounds or create something from scratch.

Perhaps you should try reading more...

ProCurve Networking by HP Launches Gigabit Switch Series that Offers Intelligence at the Network Edge

HP Introduces a Powerful, All-Digital Printing Solution for the Label Market

HP Makes Storage Networking Simple and Affordable for Growing Small and Mid-size Business Market

HP's New High-end Storage System Scales to Twice the Capacity of the Competition Without Disruption

HP Introduces Fall Lineup of Digital Photography, Music, TV, Home Projection and Entertainment Offerings in Time for Back-to-school and Holiday Shopping

HP Labs

Because HP doesn't recreate the transistor everytime it releases a new product does not mean they do not innovate. Meaningful innovation includes using the best technologies, or most adopted technologies in the market, and improving and enhancing them to improve the customer's satisfaction. There isn't much point to spending millions of dollars to recreate the iPOD, when everyone wants an iPOD and there are already a slew of other competitors out there. So... license the iPOD, add the ability to print customized skins to the iPOD, bundle iTunes with new HP PCs and offer customers the opportunity to bundle an iPOD with their HP purchases or through their normal HP sales channel.

Now they've degenerated into yet another money-hungry company who're afraid to tread new grounds or create something from scratch.

Perhaps you should try reading more...

ProCurve Networking by HP Launches Gigabit Switch Series that Offers Intelligence at the Network Edge

HP Introduces a Powerful, All-Digital Printing Solution for the Label Market

HP Makes Storage Networking Simple and Affordable for Growing Small and Mid-size Business Market

HP's New High-end Storage System Scales to Twice the Capacity of the Competition Without Disruption

HP Introduces Fall Lineup of Digital Photography, Music, TV, Home Projection and Entertainment Offerings in Time for Back-to-school and Holiday Shopping

HP Labs

Because HP doesn't recreate the transistor everytime it releases a new product does not mean they do not innovate. Meaningful innovation includes using the best technologies, or most adopted technologies in the market, and improving and enhancing them to improve the customer's satisfaction. There isn't much point to spending millions of dollars to recreate the iPOD, when everyone wants an iPOD and there are already a slew of other competitors out there. So... license the iPOD, add the ability to print customized skins to the iPOD, bundle iTunes with new HP PCs and offer customers the opportunity to bundle an iPOD with their HP purchases or through their normal HP sales channel.

Now they've degenerated into yet another money-hungry company who're afraid to tread new grounds or create something from scratch.

Perhaps you should try reading more...

ProCurve Networking by HP Launches Gigabit Switch Series that Offers Intelligence at the Network Edge

HP Introduces a Powerful, All-Digital Printing Solution for the Label Market

HP Makes Storage Networking Simple and Affordable for Growing Small and Mid-size Business Market

HP's New High-end Storage System Scales to Twice the Capacity of the Competition Without Disruption

HP Introduces Fall Lineup of Digital Photography, Music, TV, Home Projection and Entertainment Offerings in Time for Back-to-school and Holiday Shopping

HP Labs

Because HP doesn't recreate the transistor everytime it releases a new product does not mean they do not innovate. Meaningful innovation includes using the best technologies, or most adopted technologies in the market, and improving and enhancing them to improve the customer's satisfaction. There isn't much point to spending millions of dollars to recreate the iPOD, when everyone wants an iPOD and there are already a slew of other competitors out there. So... license the iPOD, add the ability to print customized skins to the iPOD, bundle iTunes with new HP PCs and offer customers the opportunity to bundle an iPOD with their HP purchases or through their normal HP sales channel.

Now they've degenerated into yet another money-hungry company who're afraid to tread new grounds or create something from scratch.

Perhaps you should try reading more...

ProCurve Networking by HP Launches Gigabit Switch Series that Offers Intelligence at the Network Edge

HP Introduces a Powerful, All-Digital Printing Solution for the Label Market

HP Makes Storage Networking Simple and Affordable for Growing Small and Mid-size Business Market

HP's New High-end Storage System Scales to Twice the Capacity of the Competition Without Disruption

HP Introduces Fall Lineup of Digital Photography, Music, TV, Home Projection and Entertainment Offerings in Time for Back-to-school and Holiday Shopping

HP Labs

Because HP doesn't recreate the transistor everytime it releases a new product does not mean they do not innovate. Meaningful innovation includes using the best technologies, or most adopted technologies in the market, and improving and enhancing them to improve the customer's satisfaction. There isn't much point to spending millions of dollars to recreate the iPOD, when everyone wants an iPOD and there are already a slew of other competitors out there. So... license the iPOD, add the ability to print customized skins to the iPOD, bundle iTunes with new HP PCs and offer customers the opportunity to bundle an iPOD with their HP purchases or through their normal HP sales channel.

Now they've degenerated into yet another money-hungry company who're afraid to tread new grounds or create something from scratch.

Perhaps you should try reading more...

ProCurve Networking by HP Launches Gigabit Switch Series that Offers Intelligence at the Network Edge

HP Introduces a Powerful, All-Digital Printing Solution for the Label Market

HP Makes Storage Networking Simple and Affordable for Growing Small and Mid-size Business Market

HP's New High-end Storage System Scales to Twice the Capacity of the Competition Without Disruption

HP Introduces Fall Lineup of Digital Photography, Music, TV, Home Projection and Entertainment Offerings in Time for Back-to-school and Holiday Shopping

HP Labs

Because HP doesn't recreate the transistor everytime it releases a new product does not mean they do not innovate. Meaningful innovation includes using the best technologies, or most adopted technologies in the market, and improving and enhancing them to improve the customer's satisfaction. There isn't much point to spending millions of dollars to recreate the iPOD, when everyone wants an iPOD and there are already a slew of other competitors out there. So... license the iPOD, add the ability to print customized skins to the iPOD, bundle iTunes with new HP PCs and offer customers the opportunity to bundle an iPOD with their HP purchases or through their normal HP sales channel.

Now they've degenerated into yet another money-hungry company who're afraid to tread new grounds or create something from scratch.

Perhaps you should try reading more...

ProCurve Networking by HP Launches Gigabit Switch Series that Offers Intelligence at the Network Edge

HP Introduces a Powerful, All-Digital Printing Solution for the Label Market

HP Makes Storage Networking Simple and Affordable for Growing Small and Mid-size Business Market

HP's New High-end Storage System Scales to Twice the Capacity of the Competition Without Disruption

HP Introduces Fall Lineup of Digital Photography, Music, TV, Home Projection and Entertainment Offerings in Time for Back-to-school and Holiday Shopping

HP Labs

Because HP doesn't recreate the transistor everytime it releases a new product does not mean they do not innovate. Meaningful innovation includes using the best technologies, or most adopted technologies in the market, and improving and enhancing them to improve the customer's satisfaction. There isn't much point to spending millions of dollars to recreate the iPOD, when everyone wants an iPOD and there are already a slew of other competitors out there. So... license the iPOD, add the ability to print customized skins to the iPOD, bundle iTunes with new HP PCs and offer customers the opportunity to bundle an iPOD with their HP purchases or through their normal HP sales channel.

Yup, check out these HP headphones

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/prolian tstorage/rack-options/scs/index-kvm.html

How about IPMI?

The marketing blurb goes something like this:

[IPMI] will allow for remote monitoring, management and recovery capabilities, regardless of the status or health of the server. New features such as enhanced security using leading authentication and encryption mechanisms in combination with remote console viewing will help reduce operational risk by securing remote operations. Moreover, with IPMI being implemented at the silicon level, it deals with monitoring basic server parts such as power supplies, fans, voltage and temperature irrespective of the type or health of the CPU or operating system.

Supermicro have a sub $60 daughter card (for their motherboards only) that seems to offer console access over LAN using 'out of band' bandwidth, whatever that is. There are other vendors offering 'IPMI-enabled' mobos as well.

Has anyone used one of these? I'm considering getting a few cards for the SuperMicros I colocate. And wonder how the seial console access works over a WAN, getting it setup, securing it, etc. And what support, server-side, there is for IPMI based monitoring.

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Hosting VPS servers with SSH console access

I was looking for a cheap printer recently, and saw the HP Inkjet 3520 selling at Wal-mart for $29, with an included tri-color ink cartridge. That ink cartridge alone cost $22. I had heard of the scam that the included toner cartridges with laser printers is only half full, so I checked the volume of ink that it came with and compared it to the ink cartridge sold by itself, and sure enough they were the same. (8ml) Bingo! $7 printer! You have any links about less-than-full included ink cartridges? I'd just be curious.

I think Intel's least favorite simple equation is:

4195835.0 / 3145727.0 < 1.3338

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I would agree with you for the most part. However, I think she genuinely harbors some sort of grudge against IBM outside of the IBM vs. SCO theatrics. Take an article about Itanium from August - "Itanium-Armed Start-up To Menace IBM's Precious Mainframe Monopoly". The article itself is not particularly venomous towards IBM, but it certainly isn't an unbiased report on future competition for IBM. It just seems kind of absurd to go out of your way to prepare an article about a start-up company 'menacing' IBM's 'monopoly' when IBM already has plenty of more noteworthy competition.

But, as you said in another post, one has to wonder if she's doing this purely for the troll-value of it all.

Well they didnt bother with my school (MSOE) which is a shame. Every full-time student must get a "technology package" which includes a laptop which gets replaced every 2 years. Mine is a compaq hw8000. Granted it's not the largest school, but it's what we do. Even smaller colleges are included. So how did they choose their selections?

That's a dead alpha link (figures). Perhaps you meant this one?

Getting Media Center Edition no longer requires purchasing a new overpriced system. Some references:

MCE 2005 OEM (Software) - $140
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?desc ription=32-102-311&depa=0

MCE 2005 Remote - $40
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?desc ription=80-100-851&DEPA=0

Xbox MCE Extender software (includes remote - is what this whole article is about) ... $58
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10385209 &loc=101&sp=1

LinkSys MCE Extender (standalone/wireless) -
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10382669

HP has one too also can't find it for sale yet
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product =438918&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&

looking at Palm, iPAQ, and iPod sizes

• SL-C3000: ? (screen: 3.7), 10.5oz, $lots
• Zire 31: 4.4 x 2.9 x 0.6, 4.1oz, $149
• Zire 72: 4.6 x 2.95 x 0.67, 4.8oz, $299
• Tungston E: 4.5 x 3.1 x 0.5, 4.6oz, $199
• Tungston T5: 4.8 x 3.1 x 0.6, 5.1oz, $399
• Tungston C: 4.8. x 3.1 x 0.7, 6.3oz, $399
• iPAQ rz1715: 4.48 x 2.75 x 0.5, 4.23oz, $280
• iPod 20GB: 4.1 x 2.4 x 0.6, 5.6oz, $299
• iPod mini 4GB: 3.6 x 2.0 x 0.5, 3.6oz, $249
• 1GB SD (for palms): $75

The picture makes it look like it is quite thick ... I wonder how it will compare to the above.

SD memory for palms is rapidly improving; soon, larger capacities will be cheaper, making a $250 1GB+ palm smaller and better than this toy.

(note, I have posted on this before)

It's an HP 3500 LaserJet that doesn't work with Linux unless there were "JetReady" drivers added to ghostscript recently.

Kirby

I know I bought a printer about 5-6 years ago that was the same thing built by somebody else (Sony I think?). It used a SourceGear driver. The ghostscript guys said they'd actively write a driver for it's language because they were such nice printers. Unfortunately, they never released the specs, and the printer line died shortly there after. It actively advertised that is did "PostScript", but the problem, was it did PostScript in software, not hardware.

I believe we have two 3500 series color laserjets that don't do PostScript, or PCL that anyone around here can figure out. We can use Samba to queue from them from Linux, but you have to use the Windows drivers. It uses "JetReady" according to the specs on the HP website.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/1897 2-236251-236268-15077-f51-315862.html

That is a decent printer, and it doesn't work with Linux at all. Let alone immediatly or flawlessly. What do I get for successfully completely the dare?

Oh, and you can't say it's not a decent printer because it doesn't do PCL or PostScript, that's cheating. So yes, you still actually have to read the specifications to see if they will work with Linux. Our Admin wasn't paying attention. I normally wouldn't either, because it was an HP printer. They have always done PCL in hardware. However, a friend of mine warned me after picking up a 1012 not too long ago to be on the lookout.

Kirby

Any laser printer that doesn't support a sensible set of printing protocols (postscript, for example) does not belong in an office. It's fairly hard to find one, but if you're looking for something that will be absolutely no use to anyone, look no further than the Epson Acculaser C900. One of our clients bought one of these for their accounts office, where they have a high printload. Once they realise how much it would cost them, they sent it into the MD's office (which does very little) and replaced it with one of these. Since then, the Epson has broken down twice.

Kindly recommend to your boss that any money saved by buying cheap GDI printers is lost very quickly in maintenance and consumables.

Just how is this Unlike this HP product? Old news.

Presario 2105US (It's out of production, so don't worry about being surprised at retail. Other than the PCMCIA problem and needing a custom DSDT ACPI table, it makes a good Linux laptop.)

This is the most they say about the problem: fixes cardbus issue. I put two and two together when the first card died, and I called D-Link about it, and they didn't have a clue until I told them the make of the laptop, and the tech talked to his boss, and I was granted an RMA.

After flashing the BIOS and getting a new card, it worked fine for a while. Then I had this power connector problem with the motherboard, and the computer has been continuously disassembled since then, except for the week that the component was resoldered, at the beginning of which I fried the card again.

I think that sometimes, if the card is in at boot time, the card can be flashed accidentally, because it will power up, but drivers will not load and I can't get any activity.

Anyone with 350 bucks can have a 1.4ghz XBox with 128 megs of RAM.

Anyone with 350 bucks can have a Sempron 2800+ Compaq with 256 megs of RAM. I would have used pricewatch, but I wanted a quick example.

I'm not quite sure what you were getting at there. Except that perhaps /. readers have an obsession with making things harder for themselves in the pursuit of knowledge. But I do think I just effectively doubled the RAM and CPU on your linux media workstation, no?

"There is no way that you can get there with Apple. The critical mass has to come from the PC, or a next-generation video device,"

Isn't this why Apple has teamed up wiht HP to sell it's iPod's?

But you bought the laptop knowing that it came with windows. It was part of your decision when you bought your Dell. You could have gone with a laptop with linux pre-installed but YOU made the DECISION to buy a Dell.

I'm not saying that was wrong but I really don't have any sympathy for those that knowingly buy a product with something extra and hope to get a refund. Its like me going into the GAP and saying "well.... I'm really not going to use this 6th pocket... how bout I cut it off, give it back to you, and you knock $5 off the price?", I'll try it someday but I don't think its going to fly...

You can't eat your cake and have it too!!

What is this "Integrity Virtual Machine" thing? Does anybody know?

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/76971-0 -0-0-121.aspx?Jumpid=virtualization_081604/Linux

I believe that indeed Christophe was referring to someone who was working on UDC. If that's the person I am thinking of, it's someone who had enough balls to sponsor Chrisophe while he worked on the VM idea.

You realize, of course, that should this take off and do well, Compaq will be after you, due to the similarity of the name to iPAQ.

Remember, when she was originally asked to explain the concept, she uttered a bunch of buzz-words. When pressed, she said that they were still in the "process of defining all its features".

In other words, she's clueless. That might have been fine when she was appointed (l999) during the dot-com boom, but it makes the title of this http://www.bookfinder.us/review9/1591840031.html Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett-Packard really ironic.

The only question in many people's minds is, when is HP going to change this: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/bios/fiorina.htm l,

Well, there IS another question - when are they going to ship printers with a full cartridge (ink or toner). They've got to rediscover that customer satisfaction is the key to long-term success.

Many of you talk a good game of prior art, providing oodles of weblinks that supposedly prove your searching brilliance and the Patent Office's ineptitude. However, after looking over the "prior art" references cited in this thread, I fail to see any that would actually fully read on Xybernaut's claimed subject matter.

For instance, both the Nomadic Radio and Smart Cow Collar lack a display controller, and from all appearances also lack any computer components enclosed in the collar that can movably extend outside the collar adjacent to the user's face.

Simply mentioning that the Gumstix computer is small enough to fit under a collar doesn't remotely cover the myriad of claimed limitations in Xybernaut's patent.

This Hewlett-Packard paper merely states, "A collar mounted near-field transceiver allows connection to head-mounted peripherals." Again, nothing about a display controller (or any other computer components) movably extending from inside to outside the collar.

The Invisible Computer talks optimistically about a future when, "Computers will be in your collar, so you can whisper when you talk with them and hear without bothering others." The specific operational structure of Xybernaut's claimed invention is not here either.

Levi's Industrial Clothing apparently comes, "Armed with a remote, [so] you can switch between [an MP3] player and [a mobile] phone, while earphones and microphones are concealed in the jacket collar." No mention of display control. No mention of collar component extension.

This 'Enter the Cyborg' article further describes Levi's Industrial Clothing as having, "a microphone hidden in the collar, and retractable earphones [that] extend out from the shoulders for listening to both music and phone calls." So we have computer component extension -- but from the shoulders, not from the collar. And still, mind you, no display controller enclosed in the collar.

This Carnegie Mellon University paper reveals, "The general areas we have found to be the most unobtrusive for wearable objects are: (a) collar area..." Okay, great. But yet again, no display controller and no collar extension.

The closest prior art comes from Accenture's Personal Awareness Assistant. However, the earliest mention of the Personal Awareness Assistant on Accenture's website appears to be January 2002. And Xybernaut's invention was filed on January 2, 2001. Besides that, saying Accenture's mini digital camera constitutes a "display controller" would be a bit of a stretch. Regardless, Accenture also fails to say anything about "input/output connectors" or "peripheral ports" -- as claimed by Xybernaut. So another dead end here.

Now you may well make the argument that Xybernaut's invention is an obvious variant (where "obviousness" is completely subjective and easily disputable) of the above prior art. But that position is dramatically different from declaring Xybernaut's invention not to be novel. For Xybernaut's invention not to be novel, you would have to find a piece of prior art dated before 2001 that contains each and every limitation recited in claims 1, 11, 20, or 22 (a

Just do me a favour and stop referring to it as a tax, it just makes you look stupid. Income tax is a tax - you earn money, you pay it; you earn money but don't pay it, you're breaking the law. Windows licence fees a tax? Who's going to arrest yo for not paying for something you've not ordered or received?

I just finished compiling Gentoo on my rx2600 cluster. Now what do I do with 'em, serve pr0n?

Yeah.. I just ordered the IA-64 linux developer's kit CD from HP (for free) last week! Jeez..

Yes, just look at HP, for example.

bachelor's degree in medieval history and philosophy

Won't more ram eventually become unnecessary with all the bottlenecks computers have?

No... err... rather, something will fundamentally change.

Instead of having a hierarchy of memory (hard drive, ram, cache, etc), you'll see RAM and flash merge into a "universal memory". Everything will come on a single chip - processor and storage. RAM won't be required since the on board storage will be both quick and nonvolatile.

Currently, as much as 75 percent of a processor's area is used for cache memory. This is a number that is increasing, too. This is because RAM is too electrically "distant" from the main processor to be of any high-performance use. The near-term solution has been to pile on lots of cache memory in order to make up for it.

Recently, Ovonyx licensed their phase-change technology to Nanochip. Now, the phase-change technology is the same thing that is currently used in CD/DVD-RWs. With this implementation, they'll be programming and reading the material electronically instead of optically. Since they'll be doing it with MEMS and atomic probes, the density will reach levels of 1 terabit/square inch (125 gigabytes) and will do so very quickly. For more information, see HP's probe storage page. As a side note, HP and Nanochip are just a couple miles apart so it is rumored that Nanochip is hiding the HP plan at this point. Commercialization in 2006 isn't too far off. Also note that Microsoft is an investor in Nanochip as well. Bill Gates mentioned at Cebit that terabit chips will be here "very soon". Something to think about.

There also is/was:

• KAI C++
• Compaq's Alpha compiler
• SGI pro64

KAI C++ is basically dead (Intel bought them a couple years back, which sucks, as KAI was about the best C++ compiler I have seen), and I'm not totally sure about Compaq's Alpha compiler, but it looks like the SGI Pro64 compiler is still alive (and GPL'ed now... interesting).

[snip...]There are two brands worth considering for use with free software...Hewlett-Packard
Most of the HP inkjet line is supported using a driver provided by HP. Most newer HP models produce very good photo and text output. Duplex printing on paper sizes up to A3 are also supported. ... certainly for most consumer and business use it is quite suitable....HP' "hpijs" driver is provided under a free license;

• the hpijs driver has worked out of the box on 'most every distro and on the BSDs that I've tried it on
  
• I didn't say 'most laptops work with Linux' (oh, brave new world) but rather that ' latest laptops' do, and can be shipped with them
  
• They certainly *did* sponser/employ Bruce Perens, do still employ Bdale as their Linux CTO
• The esr quote you mentioned is from December 2000 and I think they've addressed a lot of those issues

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3) What does ZFS offer over AdvFS?

Granted, Solaris hasn't been EOL'd and Tru64 has, but I fail to see anything meaningful [0] that ZFS does that AdvFS doesn't.

[0] dtrace is a seperate thing, although I supose ZFS has hooks for it. The 128 bit filesystem is just excessive.

As I have already posted: If you want to read more details on the "Zettabyte File System" you can view the white papers on ZFS self-tuning [hp.com] and QOS [hp.com] as they contain far more detail than the marketing article given.

As I have already posted: If you want to read more details on the "Zettabyte File System" you can view the white papers on ZFS self-tuning [hp.com] and QOS [hp.com] as they contain far more detail than the marketing article given.

If anyone wants to read more details on the "Zettabyte File System" they can view the white papers on ZFS self-tuning and QOS as they contain far more detail than the marketing article given.