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Alpha 21364 EV7 Specs Released
Jon Carroll writes " HP has revealed their Alpha roadmap
today at RDF and the schedule goes
as previously planned. Alpha 21364 (EV7) is based on 0.18 micron to be shipped
by this year end and EV79 based on 0.13 micron SOI will be up next. EV7 will be
at 1.2Ghz while EV79 will be at 1.6Ghz. The Alpha 21364 EV7 chip will have 152M
transistors, 1.75MB integrated on-die L2 cache, 32GB/s of network bandwidth,
integrated RDRAM memory controller with 8 channels up to 12.8GB/s of memory
bandwidth. "
Alpha Lives! Yay! I can die happy now.
Lord of the Squirrels, Ambassador to the Moles, Minister of Rodential Information
I just wet my pants!!!
hAPpY FoURhT oF JuLyu! hehehehe FP roolz LoL
gr8z 2 pHRaCK this is a fP perhapz lameness filter is screwing me OVER lol cool alphaz
They are targetting our airports. Crashing planes into partying civilians. This is their way.
Now we must show them ours. Take the war to them. We have guns. Let them feel the power of our righteous vengance.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
Reposting again. Managed to get up to 50 Karma, posted ONE pro-Troll message, and got mod-bombed. This diatribe was truer than I thought. CLiT, I shall be honored if you accept me as a member!
Visitors to the website slashdot.org will by now have surely heard of the act of Moderation. This is where a contributor's post can be 'Moderated' either positively or negatively, depending on how the Moderator perceives the value of the post. There is a sliding scale of total moderation points, from -1 to 5, along with snappy summaries of the reason for moderation, such as "Funny", "Insightful", or the ever popular "Troll". An additional benefit offered to Moderators is the ability to ban a poster from contributing, by negatively moderating enough of his postings in a 24 hour period.
In order to retain some level of fairness for the Slashdot population, the Slashdot Editors (adopting the role of 'Benevolent Dictators') have implemented a scheme whereby regular users of Slashdot, chosen essentially at random, are given the ability to act as Moderators.
This underlines an inherent flaw in the system. Psychological studies have shown that in any community, no matter how small, should a random sampling of people be given the slightest grasp of power, they will immediately abuse it. There is a primal, evolutionary desire in Man to place himself higher than his peers by whatever measurement they can muster. Slashdot Moderation provides the ideal means for which a man can prove himself more equal than others.
At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law at such an early point in my thesis, I have no choice but to compare Slashdot Moderation to the systematic genocide of the Jewish community in 1930's Germany.
A bold statement, I admit, and deliberately designed to shock, but I feel the statement is necessary. I shall now offer a more rational explanation, as well as a comparison of the parallels between Slashdot Culture, and the National Socialist regime.
First, some history. National Socialism did not spring up overnight. It grew from a feeling of national bitterness and resentment at the war reparations Germany was forced to make after World War One. Germany was a broken country, populated by desperate starving people. And to the desperate, an extreme ideology begins to seem like a rational choice.
The advent of new technology forces a paradigm shift in the way the beholders of that technology think. The Christianity Meme was made wide spread by the invention of the Gutenberg press. And the rise of National Socialism was made popular because of the invention of Cinema. Here we had a new means to control the flow of information to the populace, that they are willing to unquestioningly listen to due to the 'novelty factor' of moving pictures. It is no coincidence that some of the best Cinematography of the early 20th Century came out of the National Socialist propaganda machine.
Why is this the case? It is yet another fault of man that a new means of distributing memes is perceived, due to the 'newness' of the medium, to have a greater 'validity' than older media. Those harnessing new inventions have the power to win control of the hearts and minds of others.
With the tools in place, who should the National Socialists target? Clearly, as a counterpoint to Man's desire to hold power over others, there is also a desire to resent the success of others. If someone is successful, they reduce the self-worth of their beholders. Although times were harsh in Germany in the prelude to World War II, there were still successful inhabitants of that country. Possessing shrewd business acumen as well as the contacts in other countries needed to maintain support in such a poverty stricken and broken land, who else should deserve the wrath of the populace more than the Jews?
Fast-forward to the latter quarter of the 20th Century. Computing technology is focused in niche markets, and limited to big successful companies like IBM and Microsoft. As the markets were limited, there were also limited opportunities for employment. This gave rise to a rising number of college dropouts, seething with resentment and unable to relate to society beyond the staccato clatter of keyboards and the pallid green glow of an 80x24 text display, and lacking the basic business skills (and a smart suit) needed to secure employment at one of these companies.
At this time, a new invention was beginning to take hold in College campuses throughout the world. The Internet. As with the Gutenberg press and Cinema beforehand, this new technology would grow to spread one of the most virulent memes of the modern age - Open Source Software, created as the antithesis of successful business practise.
So, the parallels between the birth of Anti-Semetic National Socialism and the birth of Open Source Software have been made. Of course, it is easy to claim that A=B without providing further logical evidence in support. So, the next task of my thesis is to provide further parallels, and bring this discourse back to the initial focus on Slashdot Moderation.
Slashdot was conceived, in it's original 'Chips 'n' Dips' incarnation, as a vehemently anti-corporate Open Source website. Roughly 10-15 years down the line from the birth of Open Source, it has become saturated with propaganda, and now forms the centrepiece of the Open Source Development Network. An authority in it's field, Slashdot's success is in no small part due to the ability of the editors to 'pick and choose' valid news articles submitted by users, and present the same old tired "Open Source Good / Closed Source Bad" rhetoric time and time again, dabbling with anti-copyright and the right of the 'common man' to remove an artist's ability to gain compensation for the work. In essence, this is similar to the 'paring down' of artistic worth in 1930's Germany. If no-one is willing to contribute valid and vibrant art to the community, then all art shall become harsh and functional, possessing a certain intimidating aesthetic.
Which leads onto Open Source's shining achievement - Linux. This diatribe is not aimed towards Linux in particular, as it is a well-oiled, well-tuned machine. A technically adept Operating System, it is worthy of admiration by any rational man. The point of this thesis is not to attack the art produced by Open Source coders, which in itself is worthy, but to enlighten all as to the political processes behind the OSS movement.
By the same scale, it is hard to fault Mercedes for the technical excellence of the vehicles which were used by the National Socialist party. But the politics behind the party are what taint the image of Mercedes' vehicles of the era. The Swastika itself is a benign symbol, found this day in such diverse locations as Pokemon cards, but is permanently tainted with the history of the acts made under its auspice. In the same way, companies switching to Open Source solutions will begin to regard the Penguin with the same trepidation as their profits fall.
It should be worth noting at this point that IBM, previously one of the world's greatest companies, has begun reporting servere financial losses, no doubt due to its adoption of Open Source practises. This epoch-making event was NOT reported on Slashdot, even though articles were submitted.
And what of the other great company mentioned above? Microsoft, aka Micro$oft, Mickeysoft, Microshaft, Kro$oft, and many other derogatory and undeserved names. Throughout the previous 25 years, Microsoft has grown from strength to strength, again possessing shrewd business acumen as well as providing products that people want. This makes them the number one target for the OSS movement. Incapable of standing by their own merits, the OSS zealot would rather attack Microsoft as a priority than produce anything of worth for their community.
Slashdot Moderators, crazed with their limited new-found power, exhibit this behavior. It is a sad state of affairs that the majority of article moderations are negative. Where is the positive feedback and sense of social contribution? Nowhere to be found. Moderators are too focused on putting their peers down to make themselves appear superior, rather than doing the hard work and becoming better on their own terms.
As the National Socialists required a scapegoat, Slashdot Moderators require a constant stream of Postings to label '-1, Inferior'. Once a posting is reduced to the score of -1, it becomes invisible to the casual user. Again, this is a parallel to the Ghettoization of Germany upon the election of Hitler.
In essence this would not be so bad, were postings to be evaluated on their own terms. However, alongside the moderation of their postings, each user has a 'Karma' value, namely the sum of their worth to the Slashdot community. As a user's posts are moderated up or down, so their Karma fluctuates. As Karma becomes negative, a user's default posting score is reduced, until they are posting at a default of -1. Again, ghettoizing PEOPLE, not just their opinions.
This ghettoization is reinforced with the often fake belief that a negatively moderated post, and therefore the poster, is a "Troll". (Is it any wonder that such a name has been chosen to describe these people, invoking mental imagery of facial disfigurement and hooked noses?) As the Jews were accused of fraud, dishonesty and being subhuman animals, so too are Trolls accused of FUD, Crapflooding, and obfuscated goatse.cx links. Quite often, these 'undesirables' are capable of providing a valid insightful comment on a topic, but because it is in opposition to the Political dogma of Slashdot they are moderated back into their ghetto. The person becomes moderated, not their opinion.
This is just the thin end of the wedge. Although, as memes are transient, it is difficult to silence an opinion, it is trivial to silence a person. Upon the rise of National Socialism in Germany, the populace were motivated by propaganda into entering the Jewish Ghettos en masse with the sole purpose of causing as much damage as possible to Jewish businesses and residences. The infamous Krystalnacht. This parallels far too accurately with the Slashdot Editor's non-discouragement of the act of IP-banning. As mentioned above, this occurs when an individual user's postings are repeatedly moderated down in a short period. They then become incapable of posting any contributions themselves. In essence, they have been silenced, regardless of the worth of their postings.
Of course, the editors claim that Meta-Moderation is the panacea to solve this clear abuse of moderating privledge. But if a Meta Moderator is presented with a list of moderations that they disagree with, such as this targetted 'silencing' mentioned above, they cannot note them as such without in turn becoming an 'Undesirable' themselves, as too many Disagreements with the Moderation groupthink also result in loss of Karma.
Throughout all of this, the Editors have claimed a false level of detachment from the acts of moderation. In a same way, as the National Socialists gathered their power and began working on their Elite Political wing, The SS, they too remained detached from the civilians working in their name. Why? Because after inspiring the populace to such acts of violence through their propaganda, they could then claim that they were only giving the people what they want.
And then began the next stage of the atrocities. The Gestapo, Germany's secret police, were recruited from the best and the brightest of Germany's elite. As is the case now, the best and the brightest of society were often shunned and ostracized in society. In essence, the Gestapo were a tightly controlled 'Geek Army' of intelligent young men with a burning, seething resentment of normal society. The perfect psychological profile for the cause.
After all, give a normal man (with an active sex life) a gun and he will use it responsibly in self defence. Give a geek a gun and he will behave according to his sociopathic logic and hatred of the world he arrogantly presumes to be distant from. Ask yourself why Slashdot flat-out justified the murder of innocents at Columbine. And then ask yourself why, even for a brief moment, you almost began to sympathize with the killers after Jon Katz' manipulative and pseudo-emotive Hellmouth articles.
How this relates to Slashdot is clear. The majority of Slashdot posters are Sociopathic OSS zealots, unable through lack of social finesse or personal hygiene to mate regularly. Sexually and emotionally frustrated and with grudges to bear, incapable in their blinkered sense of self-righteousness of accepting any dissenting opinion than the OSS cause. Now give these people the opportunity to Moderate these dissenting opinions. Of course they are going to want to silence them, by any means necessary.
Now, the Slashdot Editors have admitted taking this silence of opinion into the next stage, by moderating whole swathes of 'undesirable' posts negatively. And then permanently banning anyone who moderates said posts back up from moderating EVER again! The result of this new policy? The few Moderators with any sense of fairness and decency are removed from the moderation pool, leaving the power ENTIRELY in the hands of the zealots. Clearly, positive moderation is discouraged under this regime, which is a direct parallel with the way the National Socialists moved their own sympathisers into positions of power throughout Europe.
So how does this compare to the genocide performed in Auschwitz and their ilk? I would like at this point to explain that in NO way do I wish to belittle the horrors that were performed in the name of National Socialism. The six million innocents killed were a cry of anguish from which humanity may never recover. And a vast distance in time and scope from a few banned posters on some shitty "My Favourite Links - now with comments" website. But these stories need to be retold before the horror is lost forever.
For the only thing that we learn from history is that we never learn anything from history. Time and time again, the St. Vitus dance is played out, we make the same mistakes, and we perpetually fail to see the warning signs.
So, moderators, the next time you moderate a rational, insightful post down, maybe because you disagree with it or because it's posted by a 'Known Troll', just ask yourself this...
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
I'd like to wish a happy july 4th to the country that funds Israel's terrorism, created the DMCA, and generally wipes it's ass on the rest of the world.
Happy July 4th you filthy pig fuckers.
The Slashdot Effect: A new for
Wait, i am confused here. I thought Dec was bought out by Compaq, which then butchered Dec and their Alpha technology to the point that Compaq finally sold off what remained of the Alpha to Intel (and a bunch of former Alpha engineers also went to AMD if memory serves correctly). Can any one clarify what really happened to Alpha ? I hope that Alpha sticks around, as i feel its a good archtecture (forgive spelling) compared to the x86 stuff.
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
almost as good as a wank.
I R00z j00!!!!!
i just noticed the bottom part, "integrated RDRAM memory controller". RDRAM is WAYYYYY too $$$$ to be used in servers, and the latency on it sucks balls as well. I dont understand why they dont go with dual DDR (ala nforce style or intels p4 chipset thats due out next time some year).
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
Be Patriotic, Smoke Amerikan grown marijuana, not treasonous imports !!!!
;-), Homer mentions to
Courtesy of About 420
Connotative Use/Meaning
420 is a phreak s (and not just a hippie s) favorite number for a
variety of reasons, or maybe for no reason at all, but colloquially
the number says pot -- let s smoke pot, or someone s smoking
pot, or gee, i really like pot, or time to smoke pot, either by
time (4:20 a.m. or p.m.), date (April 20th), or otherwise (e.g. State
Route 420). April 20th at 4:20 is marked by annual events in
Mount Tamalpais, CA (an informal gathering); Marin Conty, CA
(the 420 Hemp Fest); Ann Arbor, MI (the Hash Bash); and
Washington, D.C. (buildup towards the July 4th Smoke-In).
Original Source(s)
Conventional wisdom: The most common tale is that 420 is the
police radio code or criminal code (and therefore the police call)
in certain part(s) of California (e.g. in Los Angeles or San
Francisco) for having spotted someone consuming cannabis
publicly, i.e. pot smoking in progress; that local cannabis users
picked up on the code and began celebrating the number temporally
(esp. 4:20 a.m., 4:20 p.m., and April 20); that the number became
nationally popularized in the late 1980s and, more ferverently, in
the early- to mid-1990s; and is colloquially applied to a variety of
relaxed and/or inspired contexts, including not only pot
consumption but also a good time more generally (in contrast to
the drug war surrounding).
Conventions are legends: 420 is not police radio code for
anything, anywhere. Checks of criminal codes (including those of
the City of San Francisco, the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, the State of California, and the federal penal code) suggest
that the origin is neither Californian nor federal (the two best
guesses). For instance, California Penal Code 420 defines as a
misdemeanor the hindrance of use (obstructing entry) of public
lands, and California Family Code 420 defines what constitutes a
wedding ceremony (Marco). One state does come close: The
Illinois Department of Revenue classifies the Alcoholic Liquor Act
under Part 420, and the Cannabis and Controlled Substances Tax
Act are next, under Part 428. (RB 5/19/99)
True story?: According to Steven Hager, editor of High Times,
the term 420 originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971,
among a group of about a dozen pot-smoking wiseacres who
called themselves the Waldos. The term 420 was shorthand for the
time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis
Pasteur, to smoke pot. ``Waldo Steve, a member of the group who
now owns a business in San Francisco, says the Waldos would
salute each other in the school hallway and say ``420 Louis! The
term was one of many invented by the group, but it was the one
that caught on. ``It was just a joke, but it came to mean all kinds of
things, like `Do you have any? or `Do I look stoned? he said.
``Parents and teachers wouldn t know what we were talking about.
The term took root, and flourished, and spread beyond San Rafael
with the assistance of the Grateful Dead and their dedicated cohort
of pot-smoking fans. The Waldos decided to assert their claim to
the history of the term after decades of watching it spread, mutate
and be appropriated by commercial interests. The Waldos contacted
Hager, and presented him with evidence of 420 s history, primarily
a collection of postmarked letters from the early 70s with lots of
mention of 420. They also started a Web site, waldo420.com. ``We
have proof, we were the first, Waldo Steve said. ``I mean, it s not
like we wrote a book or invented anything. We just came up with a
phrase. But it s kind of an honor that this emanated from San
Rafael. Maria Alicia Gaura for the San Francisco Chronicle,
4/20/00 p. A19; and thanks to Noah Cole for the submission
Alternate explanations
There are a variety of other explanations, all much more interesting
than police code, and many plausible. Some are more likely uses
of the 420/hemp connection rather than sources of it, such as the
score for the football game in Fast Times at Ridgement High,
42-0.
Known Myths: It isn t police code (see above). There are 315
chemicals in marijuana, not 420. And although tea time in
Amsterdam is rumored to be 4:20, it is actually 5:30 (Gerhard
den Hollander).
Sixties Songs: For instance, Bob Dylan s famous Rainy Day
Women #12 and 35 is a possible reference, or source --
12x35=420. And Stephen Stills wrote (and Crosby Stills Nash
& Young performed) a song 4+20 (first recorded 7/16/69,
released on Deja Vu 3/11/70) about an 84-year-old
poverty-stricken man who started and finished with nothing.
(Thanks to Sherry Keel 12/6/98.) Dylan aslo mentions 4 and
20 windows in The Balland of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
(on John Wesley Harding).
Older Verse: But 420 in poetry is older than that - Greg
Keller notes the old nursery rhyme line, four and twenty
black birds baked in a pie. Revelation 5:14 (in the King
James Version of the Christian Bible) reads, And the four
beasts said A-Men. And the four and twenty elders fell down
and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever. (Travis
Spurley 2/15/99) And in Midnight s_Children, Salman
Rushdie wrote, Inevitably, a number of these children failed
to survive. Malnutrition, disease and the misfortunes of
everyday life had accounted for no less than four hundred and
twenty of them by the time I became conscious of their
existence; although it is possible to hypothesize that these
deaths, too, had their purpose, since 420 has been, since time
immemorial, the number associated with fraud, deception and
trickery. (Comet 2/14/98) Comet s best guess is that this
refers to something in Indian mythology or numerology, since
the book is set in India and frequently involves Indian history,
culture, and religion. Given the high interest in Eastern
religion among the phish/dead community, this seems a likely
origin of 420 s current significance.
Temporal Significance: Hands on analog clock at 4:20 look
like position of doobie dangling from mouth Larry in
Tuscan and Alex Mack 5/19/99). Disruptive students are out
of detention and safetly away from school by 4:20, also
rumored to be the time that you should dose to be peaking
when the Dead went on stage Hart. The Waldos were a
group of teens back in the 70 s that lived in San Rafael, CA.
420 was the way they talked about pot in front of teachers,
non-smoking family members etc. Also it was the time of day
they could just go relax, and get baked. (PhunkCellar)
Jamaicans purportedly worked till 4 then walked home then
lit up. They would talk 420 like our parents talked about after
5. That s when partying began Larry in Tuscan). Albert (not
Abbie) Hofmann supposedly first encountered LSD at 4:20
p.m. on 4/19/1943 (Bart Coleman citing Storming Heaven by
Jay Stevens, recommended by Mickey Hart in Planet Drum).
Surrealist painter Miro was born April 20, 1893. And
www.filmspeed.com says the propoganda film Reefer
Madness has a copyright date of April 20, 1936 (i.e. 4/20).
(Patrick Woolford)
Misc: Could be that it comes from hydroponics, the practice
of cultivating plants in water often used by indoor marijuana
cultivators, since 4 is used for H on a calculator (420/H20).
(Nick Lowe 3/30/00) The number 80 (eight) is quatre vingt
(pronounced cah-truh vahn), meaning four (times} twenty.
Dan Nijjar 1/27/00 (No connection yet between the number
80 and pot. A quarter pound is roughly 120 grams, rounding
quarter-ounces to 7.5.) The titanic was supposed to arrive
4/20/1912. (Thanks to RB.) Perhaps the heavy use of vt420
terminals in the Berkeley area is to blame? (BTW, 420 in
binary code is 110100100.)
Ubiquitous?
Now there s a 420 Pale Ale. One of the late-97/early-98 Got
Milk ads featured a character eating cookies without milk and
then passing a sign that reads Next Rest Area 420 miles (as Ross
Bruning). Reportedly, all of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction
are stuck on 4:20. Shirts with the number 420 on the red-and-blue
interstate highway shield (Interstate 420?) have show up on the
sitcom Will and Grace (Paul Risenhoover 5/14/99) and in several
videos. UPS labelling software has a 420 postal code legend for
next-day/2-day deliveries (which is how Phish tickets are sent).
(Jack Lebowitz 10/3/98) MTV s 1997 Viewer s Choice Award (for
the MTV Video Awards) was decided by calls to
1-800-420-4MTV. And by May of 1998, the number was
appearing in so many ads (eg Copenhagen 5/14/98 Rolling Stone
p54, Corvette p55 5/98 Car & Driver) that its presence is
presumed to be intentional. Many songs are around 4 minutes 20
seconds long (since many songs fall between 2:30 and 5:30),
including for example Pink Floyd s A Great Day for Freedom (on
The Division Bell, 1994), the Foo Fighters My Hero, and
Smokin from Boston s first album. There have also been some
420 references on The Simpsons. In the re-run episode aired on
April 20th, 1999 at a special time (probably in honor of those
college students staying in the holiday spirit
Flanders that Barney s birthday is April 20th. Also, the jackpot sign
in one part of the casino says $420,000. There are a couple less
concrete ones, but these two have to be legit, especially since they
decided to air THAT particular episode on 4/20/99. (Submitted by
Matt Meehan 4/21/99) And (as of Fall 99) the 60 free minutes that
Working Assets Long Distance offers, at the 7 cents per minute
rate, is $4.20 free. There s even a band named 420, and another
names . In the first fifteen pages of Karel Capek s novel War with
the Newts, a man diving under wonder stayed down for four
minutes and twenty seconds. Grant Garstka 1/6/00 At the
suggested retail price ($3.96) and Michigan (6%) sales tax, a deck
of Uno cards costs $4.20. Nic Boris 4:20 marks the first downbeat
of the drums in Led Zeppelin s epic Stairway to Heaven. (Dan
Harris) The bill authorizing force after the World Trade Center
attacks of 9/11/01 passed 420 to 1, and news reports in following
months noted many times that there are (or were then, anyway) 420
airports in the U.S. Allan Morris And don t forget that Adolf Hitler
was born on April 20, macabely celebrated (or at least
referenced) via the Columbine High School shootings.
Phish-related Occurances
Whatever the origin, the number appears frequently... For the
summer 1997 tour, TicketMaster service charges were $4.20. In
the Fall 1997 Doniac Schvice Dry Goods section, a limited edition
Pollack poster printed on 100% hemp is order number 420P. The
Great Went was 420 miles from Boston (former home of Phish).
The official logo includes 4 gills and 20 bubbles (Gringo
11/12/98). As of 6/15/97, including covers and originals, Phish
had performed a total of 420 songs (thought its 486 by 4/24/98).
(David Steinberg). Lawnboy is 420megs of memory. Patrick
Walker Phish s The Vibration of Life underlies a whirling loop
with Seven Beats per second (which makes 420 beats per minute.)
Trey has used the altered line woke up at 4:20 in Makisupa
Policeman, which also often indirectly celebrates 420ing, e.g. by
mention of goo balls. One of the funniest shirts around takes light
jabs at both the 4:20 phenomenon and the rumored evolution
(collapse?) of the Phish.Net (especially rec.music.phish) from
being Gamehendge to Flamehendge, and beyond. The first day of
the Great Went started at 4:20 (with Makisupa Policeman. (The
second day started late, at 4:37.) Noah Cole The first single from
Slip Stitch and Pass was played on WBCN 10/14/97 at 4:20 pm.
An uproar at 12/31/96 can be heard on tape during the 2001, in
response to an enormous digital clock (which was counting down
to midnight) reaching 11:55:40 and reading -4:20. (Yoda)
During the 9-12-00 2001, Trey hits the first riff right at 4:20 into
the intro jam. (Cal 2/25/01) Some mail order tickets for the 1997
New Year s run were in section 420. The first Mass Pike toll
leaving Oswego was $4.20. (Camille Heath ) And the standard
shipping for The Phish Companion through Amazon was
originally $4.20.
420 Shows: Phish performed on April 20 in 1989, 1990, 1991,
1993, and 1994. The first day of the Great Went started at 4:20,
although that was called a soundcheck by Trey after three songs.
The Jazzfest Harry Hood 4-26-96 started at about 4:20 reported by
Trevor. At Big Cypress, David Bowie was playing at 4:20 a.m.
And the one event during the hiatus (10/8/00 - ?) featuring all
four members - for Jason Colton s wedding - was 12/1/01, 420
from: http://www.phish.net/faq/n420.html:
Alpha is brilliant, too bad it didn't receive the development and marketing dollars it deserved. Compaq should be ashamed.
Thank goodness AMD is here to take up the slack with Hammer! =)
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
Score: -1 100% Flamebait
There is certainly much evidence that past religions are, every day, lifting
.
more and more of their ridiculous restrictions. Even so, when an entire religion
is based on abstinence instead of indulgence (as it should be) there is little
left when it has been revised to meet the current needs of man. So, why waste
time "buying oats for a dead horse"?
The watchword of Satanism is INDULGENCE instead of "abstinence" . . . BUT - it
is not "compulsion". ON THE CHOICE OF A HUMAN SACRIFICE THE supposed
purpose in performing the ritual of sacrifice is to throw the energy provided by
the blood of the freshly slaughtered victim into the atmosphere of the magical
working, thereby intensifying the magician's chances of success.
The "white" magician assumes that since blood represents the life force, there
is no better way to appease the gods or demons than to present them with
suitable quantities of it. Combine this rationale with the fact that a dying
creature is expending an overabundance of adrenal and other biochemical
energies, and you have what appears to be an unbeatable combination.
The "white" magician, wary of the consequences involved in the killing of a
human being, naturally utilizes birds, or other "lower" creatures in his
ceremonies. It seems these sanctimonious wretches feel no guilt in the taking of
a non-human life, as opposed to a human's.
The fact of the matter is that if the "magician" is worthy of his name, he will
be uninhibited enough to release the necessary force from his own body, instead
of from an unwilling and undeserving victim!
Contrary to all established magical theory, the release of this force is NOT
effected in the actual spilling of blood, but in the death throes of the living
creature! This discharge of bioelectrical energy is the very same phenominon
which occurs during any profound heightening of the emotions, such as: sexual
orgasm, blind anger, mortal terror, consuming grief, etc. Of these emotions, the
easiest entered into of one's own violation are sexual orgasm and anger, with
grief running a close third. Remembering that the two most readily available of
these three (sexual orgasm and anger) have been burned into man's unconscios as
"sinful" by religionists, it is small wonder they are shunned by the "white"
magician, who plods along carrying the greatest of all millstones of guilt!
The inhibitive and asinine absurdity in the need to kill an innocent living
creature at the high-point of a ritual, as practiced by erstwhile "wizards", is
obviously their "lesser of the evils" when a discharge of energy is called for.
These poor conscience-stricken fools, who have been calling themselves witches
and warlocks, would sooner chop the head off a goat or chicken in an attempt to
harness its death agony, than have the "blasphemous" bravery to masturbate in
full view of the Jehovah whom they claim to deny! The only way these mystical
cowards can ritualistically release themselves is through the agony of another's
death (actually their own, by proxy) rather than the indulgent force which
produces life! The treaders of the path of white light are truly the cold and
the dead! No wonder these tittering pustules of "mystical wisdom" must stand
within protective circles to bind the "evil" forces in order to keep themselves
"safe" from attack - ONE GOOD ORGASM WOULD PROBABLY KILL THEM!
The use of a human sacrifice in a Satanic ritual does not imply that the
sacrifice is slaughtered "to appease the gods". Symbolically, the victim is
destroyed through the working of a hex or curse, which in turn leads to the
physical, mental or emotional destruction of the "sacrifice" in ways and means
not attributable to the magician.
The only time a Satanist would perform a human sacrifice would be if it were to
serve a two-fold purpose; that being to release the magician's wrath in the
throwing of a curse, and more important, to dispose of a totally obnoxious and
deserving individual.
Under NO circumstances would a Satanist sacrifice any animal or baby! For
centuries, propagandists of the right-hand path have been prattling over the
supposed sacrifices of small children and voluptuous maidens at the hands of
diabolists. It would be thought that anyone reading or hearing of these heinous
accounts would immediately question their authenticity, taking into
consideration the biased sources of the stories. On the contrary, as with all
"holy" lies which are accepted without reservation, this assumed modus operandi
of the Satanists persists to this day!
There are sound and logical reasons why the Satanists could not perform such
sacrifices. Man, the animal, is the godhead to the Satanist. The purest form of
carnal existence reposes in the bodies of animals and human children who have
not grown old enough to deny themselves their natural desires. They can perceive
things that the average adult human can never hope to. Therefore, the Satanist
holds these beings in a sacred regard, knowing he can learn much from these
natural magicians of the world.
The Satanist is aware of the universal custom of the treader of the path of
Agarthi; the killing of the god. Inasmuch as gods are always created in man's
own image - and the average man hates what he sees in himself - the inevitable
must occur: the sacrifice of the god who represents himself. The Satanist does
not hate himself, nor the gods he might choose, and has no desire to destroy
himself or anything for which he stands! It is for this reason he could never
willfully harm an animal or child.
The question arises, "Who, then, would be considered a fit and proper human
sacrifice, and how is one qualified to pass judgment on such a person?" The
answer is brutally simple. Anyone who has unjustly wronged you - one who has
"gone out of his way" to hurt you - to deliberately cause trouble and hardship
for you or those dear to you. In short, a person asking to be cursed by their
very actions.
When a person, by his reprehensible behavior, practically cries out to be
destroyed, it is truly your moral obligation to indulge them their wish. The
person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly
called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected masochist who is
working towards his own destruction. The reason a person viciously strikes out
against you is because they are afraid of you or what you represent, or are
resentful of your happiness. They are weak, insecure, and on extremely shaky
ground when you throw your curse, and they make ideal human sacrifices.
It is sometimes easy to overlook the actual wrongdoing of the victim of your
curse, when one considers how "unhappy" a person he really is. It is not so
easy, though, to retrace the damaging footsteps of your antagonist and make
right those practical situations he or she has made wrong.
The "ideal sacrifice" may be emotionally insecure, but nonetheless can, in the
machinations of his insecurity, cause severe damage to your tranquility or sound
reputation. "Mental illness", "nervous breakdown", "maladjustment", "anxiety
neuroses", "broken homes", "sibling rivalry", etc., etc., ad infinitum have too
long been convenient excuses for vicious and irresponsible actions. Anyone who
says "we must try to understand" those who make life miserable for those
undeserving of misery is aiding and abetting a social cancer! The apologists for
these rabid humans deserve any clobberings they get at the hands of their
charges!
Mad dogs are destroyed, and they need help far more than the human who
conveniently made froths at the mouth when irrational behavior is in order! It
is easy to say, "So what! - these people are insecure, so they can't hurt me."
But the fact remains - given the opportunity they would destroy you!
Therefore, you have every right to (symbolically) destroy them, and if your
curse provokes their actual annihilation, rejoice that you have been
instrumental in ridding the world of a pest! If your success or happiness
disturbs a person - you owe him nothing! He is made to be trampled under foot!
IF PEOPLE HAD TO TAKE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR OWN ACTIONS, THEY WOULD THINK
TWICE! LIFE AFTER DEATH THROUGH FULFILLMENT OF THE EGO MAN is aware that
he will die, someday. Other animals, when nearing death, know they are about to
die; but it is not until death is certain that the animal senses his coming
departure from this world. And even then he does not know exactly what is
entailed in dying. It is often pointed out that animals accept death gracefully,
without fear or resistance. This is a beautiful concept, but one that only holds
true in cases where death for the animal is unavoidable.
When an animal is sick or injured he will fight for his life with every ounce of
strength he has left. It is this unshakable will to live that, if man were not
so "highly evolved", would also give him the fighting spirit he needs to stay
alive.
It is a well known fact that many people die simply because they give up and
just don't care anymore. This is understandable if the person is very ill, with
no apparent chance for recovery. But this often is not the case. Man has become
lazy. He has learned to take the easy way out. Even suicide has become less
repugnant to many people than any number of other sins. Religion is totally to
blame for this.
Death, in most religions, is touted as a great spiritual awakening - one which
is prepared for throughout life. This concept is very appealing to one who has
not had a satisfactory life; but to those who have experienced all the joys life
has to offer, there is a great dread attached to dying. This is as it should be.
It is this lust for life which will allow the vital person to live on after the
inevitable death of his fleshly shell.
History shows that men who have given their own lives in pursuit of an ideal
have been deified for their martyrdom. Religionists and political leaders have
been very crafty in laying their plans. By holding the martyr up as a shining
example to his fellow men, they eliminate the common sense reaction that willful
self-destruction goes against all animal logic. To the Satanist, martyrdom and
non-personalized heroism is to be associated not with integrity, but with
stupidity. This, of course, does not apply to the situations which involve the
safety of a loved one. But to give one's own life for something as impersonal as
a political or religious issue is the ultimate in masochism.
Life is the one great indulgence; death the one great abstinence. To a person
who is satisfied with his earthly existence, life is like a party; and no one
likes to leave a good party. By the same token, if a person is enjoying himself
here on earth he will not so readily give up this life for the promise of an
afterlife about which he knows nothing.
The Eastern mystical beliefs teach humans to discipline themselves against any
conscious will for success so they might dessolve themselves into "Universal
Cosmic Awareness" - anything to avoid good healthy self-satisfaction or honest
pride in earthly accomplishments!
It is interesting to note that the areas in which this type of belief flourishes
are those where material gains are not easily obtainable. For this reason the
predominant religious belief must be one which commends its followers for their
rejection of material things and their avoidance of the use of labels which
attaches a certain amount of importance to material gains. In this way the
people can be pacified into accepting their lot, no matter how small it may be.
Satanism uses many labels. If it were not for names, very few of us would
understand anything in life, much less attach any significance to it; - and
significance compels recognition, which is something everyone wants, especially
the Eastern mystic who tries to prove to everyone he can meditate longer or
stand more deprivation and pain than the next fellow.
The Eastern philosophies preach the dissolution of man's ego before he can
produce sins. It is unfathomable to the Satanist to conceive of an ego which
would willfully choose denial of itself.
In countries where this is used as a sop for the willingly impoverished, it is
understandable that a philosophy which teaches the denial of the ego would serve
a useful purpose - at least for those in power, to whom it would be detrimental
if their people were discontented. But for anyone who has every opportunity for
material gain, to choose this form of religious thought seems foolish, indeed!
The Eastern mystic believes strongly in reincarnation. To a person who has
virtually nothing in this life, the possibility that he may have been a king in
a past life or may be one in the next life is very attractive, and does much to
appease his need for self-respect. If there is nothing in which they can take
pride in this life, they can console themselves by thinking, "there are always
future lives." It never occurs to the believer in reincarnation that if his
father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, etc. had developed "good karmas", by
their adherence to the same beliefs and ethics as his present ones - then why is
he now living in privation, rather than like a maharajah?
Belief in reincarnation provides a beautiful fantasy world in which a person can
find the proper avenue of ego-expression, but at the same time claim to have
dissolved his ego. This is emphasized by the roles people choose for themselves
in their past or future lives.
Believers in reincarnation do not always choose an honorable character. If the
person is of a highly respectable and conservative nature, he will often choose
a colorful rogue or gangster, thereby fulfilling his alter-ego. Or, a woman who
has much social status may pick a harlot or famous courtesan for the
characterization of herself in a past life.
If people were able to divorce themselves from the stigma attached to personal
ego-fulfillment, they would not need to play self-deceitful games such as belief
in reincarnation as a means of satisfying their natural need for
ego-fulfillment.
The Satanist believes in complete gratification of his ego. Satanism, in fact,
is the only religion which advocates the intensification or encouragement of the
ego. Only if a person's own ego is sufficiently fulfilled, can he afford to be
kind and complimentary to others, without robbing himself of his self-respect.
We generally think of a braggart as a person with a large ego; in reality, his
bragging results from a need to satisfy his impoverished ego.
Religionists have kept their followers in line by suppressing their egos. By
making their followers feel inferior, the awesomeness of their god is insured.
Satanism encourages its members to develop a good strong ego because it gives
them the self-respect necessary for a vital existence in this life.
If a person has been vital throughout his life and has fought to the end for his
earthly existence, it is this ego which will refuse to die, even after the
expiration of the flesh which housed it. Young children are to be admired for
their driving enthusiasm for life. This is exemplified by the small child who
refuses to go to bed when there is something exciting going on, and when once
put to bed, will sneak down the stairs to peek through the curtain and watch. It
is this child-like vitality that will allow the Satanist to peek through the
curtain of darkness and death and remain earthbound.
Self-sacrifice is not encouraged by the Satanic religion. Therefore, unless
death comes as an indulgence because of extreme circumstances which make the
termination of life a welcome relief from the unendurable earthyl existence,
suicide is frowned upon by the Satanic religion.
Religious martyrs have taken their own lives, not because life was intolerable
for them, but to use their supreme sacrifice as a tool to further the religious
belief. We must assume, then, that suicide, if done for the sake of the church,
is condoned and even encouraged - even though their scriptures label it a sin -
because religious martyrs of the past have always been deified.
It is rather curious that the only time suicide is considered sinful by other
religions is when it comes as an indulgence. RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS THE
highest of all holidays in the Satanic religion is the date of one's own birth.
This is in direct contradiction to the holy of holy days of other religions,
which deify a particular god who has been created in an anthropomorphic form of
their own image, thereby showing that the ego is not really buried.
The Satanist feels: "Why not really be honest and if you are going to create a
god in your image, why not create that god as yourself." Every man is a god if
he chooses to recognize himself as one. So, the Satanist celebrates his own
birthday as the most important holiday of the year. After all, aren't you
happier about the fact that you were born than you are about the birth of
someone you have never even met? Or for that matter, aside from religious
holidays, why pay higher tribute to the birthday of a president or to a date in
history than we do to the day we were brought into this greatest of all worlds?
Despite the fact that some of us may not have been wanted, or at least were not
particularly planned, we're glad, even if no one else is, that we're here! You
should give yourself a pat on the back, buy yourself whatever you want, treat
yourself like the king (or god) that you are, and generally celebrate your
birthday with as much pomp and ceremony as possible.
After one's own birthday, the two major Satanic holidays are Walpurgisnacht and
Halloween (or All Hallows' Eve).
St. Walpurgis - or Walpurga, or Walburga, depending upon the time and area in
which one is referring to her - was born in Sussex about the end of the Seventh
or the beginning of the Eighth Century, and was educated at Winburn, Dorset,
where after taking the veil, she remained for twenty-five years. She then, at
the instance of her uncle, St. Boniface, and her brother, St. Wilibald, set out
along with some other nuns to found religious houses in Germany. Her first
settlement was at Bischofsheim in the diocese of Mainz, and two years later (754
A.D.) she became abbess of the Benedictine nunnery at Heidenheim, within her
brother Wilibald's diocese of Eichstadt in Bavaria, where another brother,
Winebald, had at the same time also been made head of a monastery. On the death
of Winebald in 760 she succeeded him in his charge, retaining the
superintendence of both houses until her death on February 25, 779. Her relics
were translated to Eichstadt, where she was laid in a hollow rock, from which
exuded a kind of bituminous oil, afterwards known as Walpurgis oil, regarded as
having miraculous efficacy against disease. The cave became a place of
pilgrimage, and a great church was built over the spot. She is commemorated at
various times, but principally on May 1st, her day taking the place of an
earlier Pagan festival. Amazingly enough, all of this rigmarole was found
necessary simply to condone the continuance of the most important Pagan festival
of the year - the grand climax of the spring equinox!
The Eve of May has been memorialized as the night that all of the demons,
specters, afreets, and banshees would come forth and hold their wild revels,
symbolizing the fruition of the spring equinox.
Halloween - All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Day - falls on October 31st or
November 1st. Originally, All Hallows' Eve was one of the great fire festivals
of Britain at the time of the Druids. In Scotland it was associated with the
time when the spirits of the dead, the demons, witches, and sorcerers were
unusually active and propitious. Paradoxically, All Hallows' Eve was also the
night when young people performed magical rituals to determine their future
marriage partners. The youth of the villages carried on with much merry-making
and sensual revelry, but the older people took great care to safeguard their
homes from the evil spirits, witches, and demons who had exceptional power that
night.
The solstices and equinoxes are also celebrated as holidays, as they herald the
first day of the seasons. The difference between a solstice and an equinox is a
semantic one defining the relationship between the sun, moon, and the fixed
stars. The solstice applies to summer and winter; the equinox refers to autumn
and spring. The summer solstice is in June, and the winter solstice is in
December. The autumn equinox is in September, and the spring equinox is in
March. Both the equinoxes and the solstices vary a day or two from year to year,
depending on the lunar cycle at the time, but usually fall on the 21st or 22nd
of the month. Five to six weeks after these days the legendary Satanic revels
are celebrated.
THE BLACK MASS NO other single device has been associated with Satanism as
much as the black mass. To say that the most blasphemous of all religious
ceremonies is nothing more than a literary invention is certainly a statement
which needs qualifying - but nothing could be truer.
The popular concept of the black mass is thus: a defrocked priest stands before
an altar consisting of a nude woman, her legs spread-eagled and vagina thrust
open, each of her outstretched fists grasping a black candle made from the fat
of unbaptized babies, and a chalice containing the urine of a prostitute (or
blood) reposing on her belly. An inverted cross hangs above the altar, and
triangular hosts of ergot-laden bread or black-stained turnip are methodically
blessed as the priest dutifully slips them in and out of the altar-lady's labia.
Then, we are told, an invocation to Satan and various demons is followed by an
array of prayers and psalms chanted backwards or interspersed with obscenities
. . all performed within the confines of a "protective" pentagram drawn on the
floow. If the Devil appears he is invariably in the form of a rather eager man
wearing the head of a black goat upon his shoulders. Then follows a potpouri of
flagellation, prayer-book burning, cunnilingus, fellatio, and general
hindquarters kissing - all done to a background of ribald recitations from the
Holy Bible, and audible expectorations on the cross! If a baby can be
slaughtered during the ritual, so much the better; for as everyone knows, this
is the favorite sport of the Satanist!
If this sounds repugnant, then the success of the reports of the black mass, in
keeping the devout in church, is easy to understand. No "decent" person could
fail to side with the inquisitors when told of these blasphemies. The
propagandists of the church did their job well, informing the public at one time
or another of the heresies and heinous acts of the Pagans, Cathars, Bogomils,
Templars and others who, because of their dualistic philosophies and sometimes
Satanic logic, had to be eradicated.
The stories of unbaptized babies being stolen by Satanists for use in the mass
were not only effective propoganda measures, but also provided a constant source
of revenue for the Church, in the form of baptism fees. No Christian mother
would, upon hearing of these diabolical kidnappings, refrain from getting her
child properly baptized, post haste.
Another facet of man's nature was apparent in the fact that the writer or artist
with lewd thoughts could exercise his most obscene predilections in the
portrayal of the activities of heretics. The censor who views all pornography so
that he will know what to warn others of is the modern equivalent of the
medieval chronicler of the obscene deeds of the Satanists (and, of course, their
modern journalistic counterparts). It is believed that the most complete library
of pornography in the world is owned by the Vatican!
The kissing of the Devil's behind during the traditional black mass is easily
recognized as the forerunner of the modern term used to describe one who will,
through appealing to another's ego, gain materially from him. As all Satanic
ceremonies were performed toward very real or material goals, the oscularum
infame (or kiss of shame) was considered a symbolic requisite towards earthly,
rather than spiritual, success.
The usual assumption is that the Satanic ceremony or service is always called a
black mass. A black mass is not the magical ceremony practiced by Satanists. The
Satanist would only employ the use of a black mass as a form of psychodrama.
Furthermore, a black mass does not necessarily imply that the performers of such
are Satanists. A black mass is essentially a parody of the religious service of
the Roman Catholic Church, but can be loosely applied to a satire on any
religious ceremony.
To the Satanist, the black mass, in its blaspheming of orthodox rites, is
nothing more than a redundancy. The services of all established religions are
actually parodies of old rituals performed by the worshippers of the earth and
the flesh. In attempts to de-sexualize and de-humanize the Pagan beliefs, later
men of spiritual faith whitewashed the honest meanings behind the rituals into
the bland euphemisms now considered to be the "true mass". Even if the Satanist
were to spend each night performing a black mass, he would no more be performing
a travesty than the devout churchgoer who unwittingly attends his own "black
mass" - his spoof on the honest and emotionally-sound rites of Pagan antiquity.
Any ceremony considered a black mass must effectively shock and outrage, as this
seems to be the measure of its success. In the Middle Ages, blaspheming the holy
church was shocking. Now, however, the Church does not present the awesome image
it did during the inquisition. The traditional black mass is no longer the
outrageous spectacle to the dilettante or renegade priest that it once was. If
the Satanist wishes to create a ritual to blaspheme an accepted institution, for
the purpose of psychodrama, he is careful to choose one that is not in vogue to
parody. Thus, he is truly stepping on a sacred cow.
A black mass, today, would consist of the blaspheming of such "sacred" topics as
Eastern mysticism, psychiatry, the psychedelic movement, ultra-liberalism, etc.
Patriotism would be championed, drugs and their gurus would be defiled,
acultural militants would be deified, and the decadence of ecclesiastical
theologies might even be given a Satanic boost.
The Satanic magus has always been the catalyst for the dichotomy necessary in
molding popular beliefs, and in this case a ceremony in the nature of a black
mass may serve a far-reaching magical purpose.
In the year 1666, some rather interesting events occurred in France. With the
death of François Mansart, the architect of the trapezoid, whose geometrics were
to become the prototype of the haunted house, the Palace of Versailles was being
constructed, in accordance with his plans. The last of the glamorous priestesses
of Satan, Jeanne-Marie Bouvier (Madame Guyon) was to be overshadowed by a shrewd
opportunist and callous business-woman named Catharine Deshayes, otherwise known
as LaVoisin. Here was an erstwhile beautician who, while dabbling in abortions
and purveying the most efficient poisons to ladies desirous of eliminating
unwanted husbands or lovers, found in the lurid accounts of the "messes noir" a
proverbial brainstorm.
It is safe to say that 1666 was the year of the first "commercial" black mass!
In the region south of St. Denis, which is now called LaGarenne, a great walled
house was purchased by LaVoisin and fitted with dispensaries, cells,
laboratories, and . . . a chapel. Soon it became de rigueur for royalty and
lesser dillettantes to attend and participate in the very type of service
mentioned earlier in this chapter. The organized fraud perpetrated in these
ceremonies has become indelibly marked in history as the "true black mass".
When LaVoisin was arrested on March 13, 1679 (in the Church of Our Blessed Lady
of Good Tidings, incidentally), the die had already been cast. The degraded
activities of LaVoisin had stifled the majesty of Satanism for many years to
come.
The Satanism-for-fun-and-games fad next appeared in England in the middle 18th
Century in the form of Sir Francis Dashwood's Order of the Medmanham Fanciscans,
popularly called The Hell-Fire Club. While eliminating the blood, gore, and
baby-fat candles of the previous century's masses, Sir Francis managed to
conduct rituals replete with good dirty fun, and certainly provided a colorful
and harmless form of psychodrama for many of the leading lights of the period.
An interesting sideline of Sir Francis, which lends a clue to the climate of the
Hell-Fire Club, was a group called the Dilettanti Club, of which he was the
founder.
OMG BIG PENIS ATE MY SOUP
I used to use Alpha's but left the platform 3 years ago because of lack of progress in the development of the Alpha. Especially now Compaq is dead too, the Alpha is a sitting duck. HP already has PA-Risc and and a very good relationship with Intel and their Itanium chip. Too bad!
Holy cow. 8 RDRAM channels? That is *insane*.
I'm not dead yet!
Your sketch was more or less right on. When Compaq sold ALPHA to Intel, they said there would only be one more ALPHA chip.
Damn them to hell anyway. ALPHA was the best.
Now all of that is great and all, but will it run my WINDOZE!!
I first read about their Alpha 21xxx something 64 bit processor and it was running at a whooping 300mhz at that time, which I think was around 94 or 95, compared to my measly i486 dx/2 66mhz that was mind boggeling fast.. good to see that at least a part of my old favorite chip maker still lives
Do you want total war? Yes we want total war!
Do you want fucking war? Yes we want fucking war!
November 1939, eastern front line
Machine gun fire, defending our pride
Four months of hell, thousands of bombs fell
Antaa tulla tänne vaan, SUOMI FINLAND PERKELE!
PERKELE!
[CHORUS:]
WAR - Winter war
WAR - Bowe to no one
WAR - Winter war
WAR - Kill them all
Russia beaten up, over 200000 communists dead
If they want a new war, this time will kill them all
[CHORUS]
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
Sure RDRAM is 'slow' when used on PC architecture however on an Alpha which has VERY WIDE memory bus it can actually use all that memory bandwidth. The latency doesnt matter anymore. As for cost. If you are buying one of these you probably had to get the job done 'yesterday' :-)
Peter
www.alphalinux.org
... and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
After HP anouncement that Alpha is a dead end, this is of no relevance... SADDDLY!!
b .h tm
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/07may02
They are dropping Alpha and PA-RISC for Itanium... baaadddd move!!
Aw man, I hope MS doesn't start releasing all of its BackOffice software with a fucking Alpha directory again. Alpha is stupid, Compaq is stupid, HP is even more stupid. This unholy union between compaq and hp...oh wait, nevermind, I have a life and I don't have to worry about any of this crap. Rot in hell you fucking Geek ass losers!!
too bad alpha is useless now that there is no winNT/win2k support for it
The Slashdot Effect: A new for
Get to the basement, troll
The Israeli Transport Minister Ephraim Sneh has said the shooting was believed to be a terrorist attack. El Al released a statement also saying it was a terrorist attack.
"When a gunman opens fire on El Al passengers at an international airport, you have to assume it is terrorism," Mr Sneh said.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
And while they're at it, they can change the name to "Omega".
Democracy. Whiskey. Sexy. Pick any two.
mummy, mummy, buy mi this!
Up to 256 GB of ECC memory
Over 51 GB/s aggregate internal bandwidth
4 MB or 8 MB ECC memory onboard cache per CPU
Up to 224 PCI slots on 64 PCI buses
(the image in linked news announcement has this page (www.compaq.com/alphaserver/index.html) link).
:wq
just a short comment on how good the alpha high performance math libraries really are (and the alpha engineers -- may alpha rest in peace). :o ldarray[b][a];}} :
I was writing code for a simple matrix transform using the algorithm as follows
for (a=0;a100;a++){for(b=0;b100;b++){
txarray[a][b]=
using the alpha libraries to do the transform instead rated me a 10x boost in speed.
this was weird as i didnt see how the above algorithm could be optimized...tearing apart the assembly i saw
for (a1=0;a1100;a1=a1+10){for b1..{for(a=0;a10;a++){for(b...
evidently they had optimised it so that reads and writes would occur from closely spaced regions of memory and less time would be spent writing.
result ? a 10x boost on a simple algorithm and a neat hack at the same time.
just an example of how awesome the engineering of the alpha wa
Watch the firmware directories on gatekeeper.dec.com for 'nt' firmware on the EV7 boxen. If they release it, It just may run :-).
Peter
www.alphalinux.org
My next machine will be an UltraSparc(tm) based machine.
Incidently, Intel(tm) now have the rights to the Alpha(tm) chip.
I would like to see one of these give a specFp result
;-)
I bet that it could cane IA64 in the specInt but the real test would be floating point and to do IEEE754 properly you need 64 bit otherwise you end up emulating it
now we have of the true 64 bit microproessor's
Sun Microsystems - Processors which are a Sparc
PA-risc which is MIPS like
and MIPS64 which I like alot
of the ports linux to 64bit for linux HPPA and the oldie but goodie linux Alpha and linux sprac64 of course not forgeting linux for IA64 but unfortunately the linux for MIPS is not 64bit so if ever their was a challenge as linux is mostly 64bit clean its to do a MIPS64 port
oh and intel wont like to say linux for hammer which is not real 64bit just has some 64bit registers tacked on (but hey you can do fp right
oh no. I didn't just write that, did i?
Remember: If you buy anything from spammers, you have a small penis.
Only 'real' techies seem to have any time for Alpha. A company I work at has just thrown some out which ran a development SAP system only 18 months ago. Now it's been recycled by one of my collegues and runs RedHat.
;)
Works as a nice door stop too!
Arabs are deceitful liers. There's no evidence for this, but it's a scientific FACT!
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
When I first penned this rambling diatribe, the additional fact that Editors have secret moderation powers hadn't been released. Now they admit to pulling strings amd killing any thought or idea they disagree with.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
They have been available for the compaq testdrive project for a couple of weeks
cpu Alpha
cpu model EV7
system variation Marvel/EV7
cycle frequency 800000000
BogoMIPS 2140.20
platform string Compaq AlphaServer ES80 7/800
cpus detected 2
cpus active 2
This has been restructured a bit to pass through the junk filter as well as condense it to the most important info.
Ordo Militum Unix.
Why do they use 0.18 by the end of the year?
0.13 schould be capable of such a chip.
IBM uses 0.13 already for their power4.
One of the foundries like UMC or TSMC would be proude to produce the alpha.
Thus we have come full circle. islam is National Socialism.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
- ALPHA RULEZ! Intel sux0rs!
- RDRAM sux0rs! Evil patents! Evil company! Evil! Information wants to be w4r3z3d!
- ALPHA RDRAM ??
* Sound of Explosion *Religion is a corrupt organized cult created by power hungry men and women who want to control the minds of innocent and vulnerable people to put them in control of what they want on this Earth and how they want other people to live and abide to this
Religion must die
They should go all the way and integrate either one of these into the packaging:
Suddenly, Athlons seem mighty cool (literally).
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
This is not loop unrolling, it's a technique called tiling. The idea is that accesses to your rectangular array are performed in small square sections. This optimizes cache usage during the transform, where sequential access in 1 of the 2 dimensions would otherwise be cache-unfriendly.
Once again, capitalism destroys superior technology, as the DECHPaq behemoth kills off all its own engineering masterpieces to appease Intel.
Long live Alpha, long live Alpha/x86 binary translation technology, long live PA-RISC, long live HP instrumentation and calculators. Long live control by the competent, rather than the short term profit-minded!
May Fiorina and Cappellas be given the softest of pillows to relieve their nightmares of guilt.
4th July? Why are we celebrating independence from a nation now no less free than our own?
What does Alpha do next? ...profit?
Will we see fast RAMBUS controllers, single-chip MP mesh network, in a future version of Itanium, the architecture formerly known as Merced?
Alpha, you will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Considering how many CPU's you can get in a single box it's often not nessesery.
FRA: STFU GTFO
I hope there will be a Samsung/generic offering, and that mainboards, etc will be available for hobbyists, open source developers and researchers.
Mostly because I have sworn to never buy anything ever again from Compaq/HP because of some screw ups I have experienced with ordering Alpha products from Compaq, that 1 1/2 years later, they cannot resolve. I have finally taken the matter to my bank card company, and the Better Business Bureau. Their customer service, fulfillment, and transaction/order tracking suck, but they are good at taking your money. So no Samsung, no more alpha for me, thanks.
Also, because I am cheap. But I like the Alpha Processor, and OpenVMS had a pretty sophisticated design for its time.
It's news like this what makes Slashdot:
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
Thankyou chrisd, now please cover the stories on the Warcraft3 Linux porting effort.
I am the nightmare of nightmares.
I'm not irked. Merely yet still in the mourning stages.
"Who's going to bust their hump optimising for a dead CPU?" he said as his trusty multia burst into flames in protest.
The current Slashdot moderation system is made by gay communists!
While I prefer AMD processors over Intel's, and I have an x86-PC, as I understand the situation, the Hammer is not a good thing in any way. My understanding being that the Hammer is simply an extension of the x86 architecture from 32 to 64 bits. (in a remarkably similar fashion to how the 80386 was a 32-bit extension to the 80286/8086, which was a 16-bit extension to the 8085, 8080, & 8008. I'm not sure if the 8008 was an 8-bit extension of the 4004 or not; the 4004 was a 4-bit processor, and is considered to be the world's first microprocessor.)
So the x86 architecture/instruction set still has a great deal of commonality with the Altairs running CP/M.
The 'x86' architecture was only intended to be used for a few years. IBM first extended it from the Altair (8085, 64k) to the PC (8086/8, 1M). The popularity of the PC lead to the decision to extend the PC to the AT (80286, 16M). After that, IBM decided that the architecture needed replacement and then tried to kill it. IBM created an entirely new, superior architecture, complete with a new, superior OS. (The PS/2 and OS/2).
This failed miserably. (Not in small part to the fact it was a 'closed' architecture-- just like Macintosh)
Instead most of the world chose to stay with the 'x86' architecture (and the more economical clones), maintain backwards compatibility, and deal with its limitations. (I won't say flaws, because the original architecture was never meant to be extended this far to begin with. Of course, that was back with the 8080 and 8085, 64k (max) memory, the Altair, and CP/M.
And now, the x86 architecture is one extension upon another, finally arriving at the monstrosity we know today.
The Hammer (and Intel's 64-bit extension to the Pentium... NOT the Itanium) will be yet another generation of an architecture originally intended to handle no more than 64k of memory.
It's sick; the best comparison I can think of is if the 'x86' architecture is compared to bare hands, the only tools we have are gloved hands with speed/power assist. No wheel, no lever -- just hands.
The sooner we kill the x86 architecture, the better. It was ancient 15 years ago. Humanity gave up horses and slaves in favor of automobiles and machinery. We can give up the old x86 architecture for something better. Maintaining it is inhumane.
But getting Intel, AMD, and others to cooperate (and share valuable, patented technologies with each other) is like asking Microsoft to GPL the source for Windows.
-- Sometimes you have to turn the lights off in order to see.
Samsung have the right to develop & manufacture Alphas for as long as they want, no matter what Intel & HPaq say or do.
Samsung have the right to develop, manufacture & sell Alphas for as long as they want, no matter what Intel & HPaq say or do.
Hi!
I own (still) Alpha XL 266 with 128Mb ram and 21064 266Mhz CPU. I am MCSE. I run Linux Debian on my Alpha. It is production server for my company that I own.
Regarding some morron on this forum that said MCSE's are too dumb to run Linux........!#$! OFF!