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Who Has Faster Pipes? Linux, Win2000, WinXP Compared
SeaBait writes: "This revealing article about the High-performance programming techniques on Linux and Windows shows that Linux rules. The performance testing was on Pipes(interprocess communication mechanism available on both Windows and Linux and UNIX). Although I new Linux would fare the best, the poor performance of Windows XP was a surprise. Windows 2000 actually did better than XP!"
I dont know what a pipe is, but I'm sure this is improtant. Rock on, l337 hax0r5.
But we all know that Steven Tyler of Aerosmith has the loudest pipes :)
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I go to a very old University, and the building I live in is, itself, over 100 years old. When a friend of mine from down the hall went home for Christmas break, a girl she went to high school with warned her that she had contacted a spirit on her Ouija board, of a male student who had committed suicide in our building in the 1940's. We haven't yet been able to determine whether this actually happened, but I never put too much faith in Ouija boards, so I didn't think much of it. I live in the very top floor of this building, and the room across from mine is unoccupied. It is the largest, and most beautiful room in the building, with the best lighting and lots of windows, but it is only used for storage. One day, as I was leaving my room, I would swear to hearing eerie Latin choral music coming from inside that room, but at the time, I figured that I was just imagining things, and ignored it. Since yesterday, I am pretty convinced that I have a spirit of some kind hanging around my room. Why it has reached out to me, I'm not sure. Fortunately, I don't believe this spirit to be evil, as nothing destructive has yet been done. Still, the things that happened yesterday have me convinced that there is something, or someone, else present here, other than myself. Yesterday I checked my e-mail, then logged out and laid down to take a nap. After a few minutes I heard a beep, exactly like that kind that sounds when I'm logged on, and I got a new e-mail message. A few minutes later, I heard another, but, since I clearly remembered logging out, I assumed I was just tired and hearing things. When I got up about an hour later, I checked my mail again, and I had two new messages. I noticed right away that both messages had arrived just after I had laid down for my nap. Putting it up to coincidence, I gathered my things together and headed off to class, locking my door behind me. When class got out, I headed back to my room, and noticed that my door was slightly open. Since I live alone, this scared the living crap out of me. I slowly peeked in the door, and saw my neighbor sitting at my computer, using my e-mail. She heard me come in and jumped about a mile high, then questioned where I'd been. I told her that I'd been in class for the last two hours, and asked her how she'd gotten into my room. She told me that she'd knocked on my door, and heard someone say "Come in!". Shetried the door and, finding it unlocked, let herself in. She was pretty freaked out when I wasn't in the room.... she even checked under my bed and in my closet to see if I was hiding. She figured that she was just hearing things and that I'd run downstairs for a few minutes, leaving my door unlocked, so she sat down and checked her mail, etc. When I got back from class, about 10 minutes later, she told me about the voice, and I explained to her that I had locked my door before I left. Perhaps it's all coincidental, and she just thought she heard something, and I left my door unlocked, thinking I had locked it, but I'm not so sure. There have been a few too many coincidences for me to swallow. I hope that if I do have a ghost, that it's a friendly ghost, and we can get along. I have nothing against them, and hopefully it has nothing against me. And, I figure that, if the ghost wants someone in my room, that's okay with me... as long as nothing gets stolen or whatever. It's still all retty weird, though.
IBM's interest in LINUX is primarily on the S/390 platform, not an INTEL platform. Windows 2k/XP isn't available on the primary platform that IBM is touting LINUX for...
IBM has every bit as much to gain or lose as any other PC/Server manufacturer does in an 386 platform.
-- You can't idiot-proof anything, because they're always coming out with better idiots.
I am an Israeli. One week ago I printed a ghost story. While reading it I used an electronic English - Hebrew dictionary. It should have been rare for me to meet a word I didn't understand. And suddenly I met a word I didn't understand.
I turned on the dictionary and looked for the word . After I got the definition for the word I turned off the dictionary. After I read few lines more I met another word that I didn't understand. So when I came to turn on the dictionary I saw it was already turned on and on the screen appeared the last word I tried to find ( I can't remember the word ). I am 100 percent sure I turned it off.
I didn't pay attention to this and started to looking for the new word. I pushed the 'clear' button in vain to knock a new word. When I pushed the button the word was erased and instead of a clear screen appeared the word "GHOST".
It was as if the ghost came out from the printed paper. I tried to push the 'clear' button again to erase the word but it didn't vanish. Only after I turned the dictionary on and off twice the word vanished. I don't have an explanation for this event but I wish it won't happen to me or to anybody else again.
Who new? I gnu, how 'bout you?
- - - If the sun is a star, why can't I see it at night?
What does Xp stand for anyway? Apparently 'eXtremely Pokey' , or maybe even 'Ex-Purchaser.' :-)
Trader Joe's Just Blueberry Juice has a blue-black color with a smooth blueberry taste that inspires the sensation of freshly picked blueberries. Blueberries have been very popular due to all the antioxidant benefits they are said to contain. Studies say that antioxidants are thought to aid in the prevention/delaying of of cancer, heart disease and the aging process.
They don't have the responsibility that comes with age. If you don't spoil your future by fooling around with bad women when you're still a teenager, you'll come to realise that sex is overrated. I, for example, am 28 years old and I've never had sex nor do I need it.
Sick.
br. Sick.
Although I new Linux would fare the best
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Welcome to
it's spelled ignoramus
This is Eric Gnu.
They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution, to...protect me from the enemy, myself
Actually, SI is just trying for the post at +2 bonus, which he will never get.
11/9/1989: in Berlin, after almost 30 years of existence, a famous landmark fell
9/11/2001: in Manhatten, after little more than 30 years of existence, a famous landmark fell
10/3/1990: In Germany, a measly treaty was signed, yet the day became National Holiday of Germany
10/3/2001: In US, a measly bus was hijacked, yet it made the front page of CNN...
_Gary_ Gnu, dammit.
He wasn't complaining about use of caps for those two, he was complaining about use of caps for "pipes".
Then why did he say this?
Also, while I'm willing to forgive the use of UNIX and COM in capitol letters
What was there to forgive? Those were correct. Sure, he goes on to say there was no reason to use caps for pipes, but nobody was disputing that.
Moron.
I think we all see the irony in that last remark now.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
echo "STFU" | /usr/lib/sendmail blackrice@nOsPAm.hotmail.com
Theres one.
Liberty in your lifetime
MS Vs Linux.
You can use An Icon of Tux with boxing Gloves punching a Windows Logo.
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