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...to test out the anti-telemarketing counterscript ;-)

Since you like the design, can you please explain why the Itaniums have 2x to 4x the number of transistors but are only in the same performance league as the P4s or Athlon64/Opterons? Is Intel burying the Itanium by making Itaniums with more transistors than they need? Or is the Itanium that inefficient?

See the SPEC CPU2000 results.

And the Itanium physical specs. You can click on the side bar for other CPU physical specifications.

With 2x to 4x the transistors you could get a dual core or even two dual core x86 CPUs.

Don't forget each of the x86 cores taken alone will perform quite well, even in FPU tasks. The Itanium is 2x to 4x faster for some SPEC FPU subtasks, but is slower in others.

If it becomes easy for compilers to parallelize execution across many VLIW/EPIC units, then would it be so much harder for them to parellelize execution across multiple x86 cores?

Heh, or start running some of those FPU tasks on commodity GPUs ;).

Nothing wrong with Itanium?

Look the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark results.

Compare the performance of the top Itaniums with the top P4s and Opterons.

Also compare[1]:
  number of transistors
  (don't forget to factor caches as well).
  die area used.
  power consumption.
  price

Now can you really say there's nothing wrong with the Itanium?

The Itanium 2 needs about 210-410 million transistors to perform in the same ballpark as P4s or Opterons with about half to 1/4th the number of transistors.

A dual core Athlon64/Opteron with 1MB cache only needs 154 million transistors, 2MB cache versions need 233 million transistors.

Academicians and "True Believers" can talk about VLIW/EPIC and fancy compilers, but I argue if the application you run is so easy to parallelize so that it makes really good use of all the VLIW/EPIC units, then will it really be so hard to make it work in parallel and make good use of both the cores of a dual core opteron?

Maybe in theory there's nothing wrong with the Itanium. But in practice there's nothing that great about it, except for some FPU tasks (but if that's the case how about a bunch of DSPs?)...

[1]
Itanium
P4
PM
Opteron/Athlon64
Dual core Athlon64/Opterons

Let me know if the above site has the numbers wrong.

Nothing wrong with Itanium?

Look the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark results.

Compare the performance of the top Itaniums with the top P4s and Opterons.

Also compare[1]:
  number of transistors
  (don't forget to factor caches as well).
  die area used.
  power consumption.
  price

Now can you really say there's nothing wrong with the Itanium?

The Itanium 2 needs about 210-410 million transistors to perform in the same ballpark as P4s or Opterons with about half to 1/4th the number of transistors.

A dual core Athlon64/Opteron with 1MB cache only needs 154 million transistors, 2MB cache versions need 233 million transistors.

Academicians and "True Believers" can talk about VLIW/EPIC and fancy compilers, but I argue if the application you run is so easy to parallelize so that it makes really good use of all the VLIW/EPIC units, then will it really be so hard to make it work in parallel and make good use of both the cores of a dual core opteron?

Maybe in theory there's nothing wrong with the Itanium. But in practice there's nothing that great about it, except for some FPU tasks (but if that's the case how about a bunch of DSPs?)...

[1]
Itanium
P4
PM
Opteron/Athlon64
Dual core Athlon64/Opterons

Let me know if the above site has the numbers wrong.

Nothing wrong with Itanium?

Look the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark results.

Compare the performance of the top Itaniums with the top P4s and Opterons.

Also compare[1]:
  number of transistors
  (don't forget to factor caches as well).
  die area used.
  power consumption.
  price

Now can you really say there's nothing wrong with the Itanium?

The Itanium 2 needs about 210-410 million transistors to perform in the same ballpark as P4s or Opterons with about half to 1/4th the number of transistors.

A dual core Athlon64/Opteron with 1MB cache only needs 154 million transistors, 2MB cache versions need 233 million transistors.

Academicians and "True Believers" can talk about VLIW/EPIC and fancy compilers, but I argue if the application you run is so easy to parallelize so that it makes really good use of all the VLIW/EPIC units, then will it really be so hard to make it work in parallel and make good use of both the cores of a dual core opteron?

Maybe in theory there's nothing wrong with the Itanium. But in practice there's nothing that great about it, except for some FPU tasks (but if that's the case how about a bunch of DSPs?)...

[1]
Itanium
P4
PM
Opteron/Athlon64
Dual core Athlon64/Opterons

Let me know if the above site has the numbers wrong.

Nothing wrong with Itanium?

Look the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark results.

Compare the performance of the top Itaniums with the top P4s and Opterons.

Also compare[1]:
  number of transistors
  (don't forget to factor caches as well).
  die area used.
  power consumption.
  price

Now can you really say there's nothing wrong with the Itanium?

The Itanium 2 needs about 210-410 million transistors to perform in the same ballpark as P4s or Opterons with about half to 1/4th the number of transistors.

A dual core Athlon64/Opteron with 1MB cache only needs 154 million transistors, 2MB cache versions need 233 million transistors.

Academicians and "True Believers" can talk about VLIW/EPIC and fancy compilers, but I argue if the application you run is so easy to parallelize so that it makes really good use of all the VLIW/EPIC units, then will it really be so hard to make it work in parallel and make good use of both the cores of a dual core opteron?

Maybe in theory there's nothing wrong with the Itanium. But in practice there's nothing that great about it, except for some FPU tasks (but if that's the case how about a bunch of DSPs?)...

[1]
Itanium
P4
PM
Opteron/Athlon64
Dual core Athlon64/Opterons

Let me know if the above site has the numbers wrong.

Nothing wrong with Itanium?

Look the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark results.

Compare the performance of the top Itaniums with the top P4s and Opterons.

Also compare[1]:
  number of transistors
  (don't forget to factor caches as well).
  die area used.
  power consumption.
  price

Now can you really say there's nothing wrong with the Itanium?

The Itanium 2 needs about 210-410 million transistors to perform in the same ballpark as P4s or Opterons with about half to 1/4th the number of transistors.

A dual core Athlon64/Opteron with 1MB cache only needs 154 million transistors, 2MB cache versions need 233 million transistors.

Academicians and "True Believers" can talk about VLIW/EPIC and fancy compilers, but I argue if the application you run is so easy to parallelize so that it makes really good use of all the VLIW/EPIC units, then will it really be so hard to make it work in parallel and make good use of both the cores of a dual core opteron?

Maybe in theory there's nothing wrong with the Itanium. But in practice there's nothing that great about it, except for some FPU tasks (but if that's the case how about a bunch of DSPs?)...

[1]
Itanium
P4
PM
Opteron/Athlon64
Dual core Athlon64/Opterons

Let me know if the above site has the numbers wrong.

...the greatest physics jokes collection. Lots of other science jokes there as well.

The Dutch ISP XS4All has a very long history of both active and pro-active defense of their customer rights. It is currently leading an international petition against the EU plans for data retention, for example. It also started case against the Dutch government over wiretapping.

In the past it has on a regular bases stood up to defend their customer rights, including a long running spat against the Church of Scientology and a case of freedom of expression even if it is about derailing German trains.

Last but not least XS4All actively sues spammers (sorry, Dutch only).

The Dutch ISP XS4All has a very long history of both active and pro-active defense of their customer rights. It is currently leading an international petition against the EU plans for data retention, for example. It also started case against the Dutch government over wiretapping.

In the past it has on a regular bases stood up to defend their customer rights, including a long running spat against the Church of Scientology and a case of freedom of expression even if it is about derailing German trains.

Last but not least XS4All actively sues spammers (sorry, Dutch only).

The Dutch ISP XS4All has a very long history of both active and pro-active defense of their customer rights. It is currently leading an international petition against the EU plans for data retention, for example. It also started case against the Dutch government over wiretapping.

In the past it has on a regular bases stood up to defend their customer rights, including a long running spat against the Church of Scientology and a case of freedom of expression even if it is about derailing German trains.

Last but not least XS4All actively sues spammers (sorry, Dutch only).

As a happy customer of them for ten years I can say that the parent is completely right.
They even sued the state about the costs for the tapping of customers and are working with the EDRI against the EU data retention plans.
There is also the long running Scientology courtcase against them.
Like someone there said: "We would not even give the time of the day to a law enforcement agency without a court order."

As a happy customer of them for ten years I can say that the parent is completely right.
They even sued the state about the costs for the tapping of customers and are working with the EDRI against the EU data retention plans.
There is also the long running Scientology courtcase against them.
Like someone there said: "We would not even give the time of the day to a law enforcement agency without a court order."

As a happy customer of them for ten years I can say that the parent is completely right.
They even sued the state about the costs for the tapping of customers and are working with the EDRI against the EU data retention plans.
There is also the long running Scientology courtcase against them.
Like someone there said: "We would not even give the time of the day to a law enforcement agency without a court order."

unfortunately in holland, so not sure how useful this is to you.

but they're basically an out of control, customer privacy respecting and defending, scientology-document-hosting, barrel of isp goodness. (more.) i wish i lived in holland so i could give them my connectivity money.

unfortunately in holland, so not sure how useful this is to you.

but they're basically an out of control, customer privacy respecting and defending, scientology-document-hosting, barrel of isp goodness. (more.) i wish i lived in holland so i could give them my connectivity money.

I had many fond memories of playing Oregon Trail on Apple //e computers in elementary school and Maelstrom in college.

Thankfully, Apple //e emulators are available today and the makers of Maelstrom have a free OS X version of Maelstrom as a free download from their site.

man you guys are way behind! I ran into this problem 5 years ago...did the laptop on the armrest thing until my back started growing sideways..All this time thinking of a simple solution to exactly the problem described above..I Had several temporary ideas set up..one snapped..one got in the way too much..and some that were just too plain ugly to keep around. This couch office is a functional prototype. It is by far a proper design. But it works..for hours a day i do my design work from this couch! http://www.xs4all.nl/~hharms/couchoff.htm Since then I have been working on a final design for this idea. The prototype is almost ready. The new version fits under any couch or sofa..Its far more compact..it's adjusable in more ways and has an easy to use wiring solution. Ikea here I come!..

For the video editing, you may also want to check out Cinelerra. It's a powerful non-linear editing suite that is focused towards professional and industrial users, and even though the hardware requirements on the site are severe, it works quite well on more moderate systems. There's also Kino and Lives, which I haven't had time to check out much. Jahshaka, which I've used a bit, seems alright. But I've had stability problems with it a lot.

All the main conference stuff has been in English. At the 'speedgeek', common-denominator languages were used in the (non-recorded) short presentations - I was with a German and a Dutch guy (I'm British), we all spoke English, so that's what was used in the presentations.

All the officiating is done in English. A few people are wearing name badges with the country codes or flags of the languages they speak.

If you want to get the videos, try here or here (the former might go offline when the conference packs up tommorow).

Also, there's video footage of the last conference - Hackers at Large. here and here.

I'm getting, over the next few days, as much of this as I can, and will make it available on BitTorrent if the rehash servers go down.

All the main conference stuff has been in English. At the 'speedgeek', common-denominator languages were used in the (non-recorded) short presentations - I was with a German and a Dutch guy (I'm British), we all spoke English, so that's what was used in the presentations.

All the officiating is done in English. A few people are wearing name badges with the country codes or flags of the languages they speak.

If you want to get the videos, try here or here (the former might go offline when the conference packs up tommorow).

Also, there's video footage of the last conference - Hackers at Large. here and here.

I'm getting, over the next few days, as much of this as I can, and will make it available on BitTorrent if the rehash servers go down.

She is the one with whome Linux is compared.

Some picture perhaps? here and here (particular this one.

When will LInux get a latex clad booth babe? We need one. Now. Errr, to take care of Linux, of course.

Golly, should have put my reply with yours. I'd sign up for the free phone service just for the entertainment value (unless they prohibit it, in which case nevermind)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html
-nB

Dunno about phone service but I use them as subsedised entertainment:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html
I keep a copy at the phone. If I don't have time for it I just hang up on them instead.

Really is fun. Two memorable calls:
1) I got yelled at by a super about wasting their time.
2) Some girl broke down at the "why are you doing it then" and started crying. I got uncomfortable and hung up on her :P
-nB

Takes the domain name (plus/minus the www. if you prefer) and runs an MD5 of that plus your password, chops it to I think 10 chars. Damn near freakin impossible to work backwards from even though the domain name starts the md5, and it's a dead easy algorithm that you could do manually from the shell if you so desired.

Unfortunately, this only works well for web-based forms, though in theory one could do it via shell for other things.

the capital of the greek 'rho' is written as 'P', smartass
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wjsn/ellas.htm

First ever!!!?? Sheesh.

And as for Dutch ISP's, XS4ALL is the ultimate geek ISP. Excellent services (bsd shell, static IP, *encourages* running servers, large experimental binary usenet server), very reliable. And they even sponsor Debian (*points at XS4ALL logo in lower left of Debian site*).

Bash.org is an IRC quote database, AFAIK. There are non-geeks on IRC as well, you know. Here is the REAL geek jokes archive.

The best tim travel sci-fi story I've read is By his bootstraps (PDF) by Heinlein.

It stands out because there is only one timeline which is never altered so there are never any "forks", and it still incorporates some interesting twists.

Maybe you'd have better luck suggesting BSD, then. ;)

That sounds like Passwd Composer.

While there is nothing wrong with POD, I personally prefer the language-independent documentation, such as Robodoc: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rfsber/Robo/robodoc.html

I am trying to have everyone at my office use this instead of writing a different style of comment for each language.

Pretty well documented, too.

I repalced Astaro with m0n0wall, and have most of the features I used - minus some of the application proxies.
I have a tor installation on the box - easy to set-up with privoxy, after i added Perl to the m0n0 mix (big as the rest of the distribution!)

There are some add-ons, too.

When I bought my Palm Zire, I had the same question, but had trouble finding gratis ebooks. Most Google searches seemed to lead to commercial publishers who offered one free ebook as a teaser, often a public domain work they had probably plucked off of Project Gutenberg.

So I created a webpage, Free Palm ebooks, that tells owners of Palm Pilots where to find the free ebooks in native Palm formats, the reader software, and more.

Well iff you like apple gadged you buy an apple eu-pod for it:

apple eupod for xs4all members (sorry dutch only)

I'd compare the M10 to a PDA before I'd compare it to a laptop. Yeah, the form factor is similar, but a PDA can do much more than the M10. All PDAs have a screen larger than the M10's 280x64 B+W screen, and they'll blow it away in processing power. I haven't followed the battery life of modern PDAs, but my Palm Pilot would have been comparable.

So, basically, the progress is that the M10 has been shrunk down to a small factor, and the full-size keyboard is now an option.

M10's a great machine (assuming it's like the model 100), but it's not in the ballpark of modern machines.

(posing anon because this isn't a well written post)

typedef struct _EDGE_FIRMWARE_VERSION_INFO
{
unsigned char MajorVersion;
unsigned char MinorVersion;
unsigned short BuildNumber;
} EDGE_FIRMWARE_VERSION_INFO, *PEDGE_FIRMWARE_VERSION_INFO;

#endif

#if !defined(IMAGE_ARRAY_NAME)
#define IMAGE_ARRAY_NAME FirmwareImage
#define IMAGE_VERSION_NAME FirmwareImageVersion
#endif...

The case was Scientologists vs. Spaink, after all.

What's really interesting is that this case has been dragging on since the previous millenium here, and that the Scientologists have been going after the ISPs concerned since 1995.

So, lets keep this in mind while we complain about SCO vs IBM taking forever (not that SCO looks like they'll survive more than another year financially without another ka$h kontribution^W^Wunix license sale to the Bitch from Redmond*).

*Microsofts' current trend to whine and moan rather than actually DO something (see the discussions on the lack of proper CSS2 support in IE7 as yet another example) mean it no longer qualifies as "the Beast".

The case was Scientologists vs. Spaink, after all.

What's really interesting is that this case has been dragging on since the previous millenium here, and that the Scientologists have been going after the ISPs concerned since 1995.

So, lets keep this in mind while we complain about SCO vs IBM taking forever (not that SCO looks like they'll survive more than another year financially without another ka$h kontribution^W^Wunix license sale to the Bitch from Redmond*).

*Microsofts' current trend to whine and moan rather than actually DO something (see the discussions on the lack of proper CSS2 support in IE7 as yet another example) mean it no longer qualifies as "the Beast".

if authors don't want people copying their books, they shouldn't print them and sell them in bookstores,

Anyway, so did you read the actual court opinion in which the court there found that looking at a website could be a copyright infringement? Or are you in fact as big a schmuck as you present yourself to be?

Or are you in fact as big a schmuck as you present yourself to be?

Full code is in the CVS, nice GUI, you can either /home, /home and configs or everything back to the LiveCD. Save Incremental changes or full changes. CD-Persistent allows the use of a CD-r or even a better CD-RW. For further details see the HowTo with screenshots. (Disclaimer - I am the main developer for this module)

I was just discussing this earlier about whether Knoppix could do just that..

Morphix a modular based which basically takes away the hard work of re-mastering a Knoppix CD The base, the part based upon Knoppix contains the kernel, kernel modules, hardware detection, etc. This base is left untouched. You can either a change a mainmod or add lots of minimodules to make different liveCDs

I submitted a note on the Knoppix mailing list, in May 2004 offering to add this code/feature to Knoppix, but did not get much feedback.

I feel I was the first to have a liveCD save data back to its own CD - all code GPL'ed, buy hey that development, he who shouts the loudest.

By the way, xs4all.nl offers its subscribers ssh access to a FreeBSD system, so you can try from the inside. Xs4all originated from a hacker/cracker club called Hacktic and this deal apparently helped the company to secure their systems extremely tightly.

One too many slash's there > http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/auralert.html

If you missed the Aurora Show this fall, you missed something special. The Aurora were intense and visible in most urban places. (Including me in Minneapolis)

For information on when flares and aurora are possible, see the following pages:
aurora alert- http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/auralert.html/
for more of a daily "this is cool stuff in space" see
SpaceWeather.com http://spaceweather.com/

Fun Stuff.

wow, that was a long troll with lots of white space in it. I especially like it how you think that a few million dollars a year will stop tsunamis. Of course then somehow you use this to turn America into the poor victim when they Americans donated a remarkably small amount per capita. My own country Australia donated thirty five times more per capita, and donated most in absolute aid.

No way the US tsunami aid got into the billions.

And with Al Gore patenting www? Unfortunately America is the only place stupid enough to have software patents at the moment (don't worry, we're getting stupider by the minute), so only Americans will owe Al Gore quarters. That's good cause only Americans have quarters.

This is actually quite fun. I like seeing zealot trolls (or at least people pretending to be zealots) making a fool out of themselves. I've posted as Anon Coward because this is very off topic.

BEFORE THIS ARTICLE

linux fan boi - roflcopter linux!!!

bsd fan boi - omg, j00 are not elite, only teh BSD is you nub, look

normal person - you guys suck

AFTER THIS ARTICLE

linux fan boi - lolocaust who l33t now? huh

bsd fan boi - ours is still teh hotness++ compare to j0ors nub

normal person - you guys still suck

No, it just shows that you know how to use Google.

i) The propagation mechanism for Rossby Waves
ii) The primary sources of deep water formation in the Atlantic
iii) How a western boundary current is formed
iv) What Meddies are.
v) What a pycnocline is.

Verdana is a very wide font. It is also bigger than other fonts at the same font size.

For the problems resulting, see http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.h tml

Yeah, the site above looks quite "oldstyle", but is right nevertheless.

I want my boxers to have HER on them.

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No, not printed.