This seems to be exactly what Orion Multisystems needs for their 96-node "Galaxy" platform. It makes me wonder if this was originally built for the 96-node (which needs 2 - 3 beefy power supplies in parallel as-is to power all EIGHT 12-node boards in a single chassis).
Speaking as root@kernel.org, I think other sites sometimes over-design. As the main page mentions, we use a Compaq (now HP) DL380 G2 generously donated to us, and it's not as beefy as you might think.
It's just a dual Pentium III system. vsftpd was the biggest help towards lowering our load (it was exceeding 300 easily), as well as moving from our ancient distro to a modern one with proper threading and moving from prefork to worker in apache 2, and moving to apache2 for sendfile support to begin with.
Don't hold your breath on this one, but I hope to get graphs and stats posted regularly as well as site changelogs in the not to distant future -- you know useless stuff like what the maximum transfer rate with a single client was, historic rates by class, etc.
Word actually starts responding to user input before it's done loading itself so the user *thinks* it's done starting up, but the actual completion of startup is some tens of seconds after the user interface begins responding. Microsoft wants application startup to appear as fast as possible, even if under the covers it really isn't. If you want to test this, just try to see how many features you can actually use in the first second after word loads outside of starting to type your new document and opening top level menus.
You can get it via ftp, http, or rsync. The -01 cd will take about an hour from the time this message is posted to appear.
Enjoy! Note that we don't currently actively mirror SuSE so there's a large chance that this area will bitrot later since I'm manually making this available.
Uh, maybe you didn't notice that the article said that the 1GHz models have already been on the market for a while and they were releasing slower models.
One would expect that these models would be cheaper than the TM5700 clients that are 1GHz and *already on the market* for some time.
With the amount of effort I see people put into making ultra quiet computers, you'd think something like this might actually do well. I'm tired of my own office sounding like a wind tunnel, and I've considered many times moving the white box machines (yes, they're cheap but loud) into a machine room and using something fanless as a remote desktop in my office.
For what it's worth, the only times ftp.kernel.org, www.kernel.org, or mirrors.kernel.org have gone down that I can remember have been hardware failures or raid re-org. There is no redundant server -- all those are on a single host, yet somehow it manages, and every new kernel relese seems to appear on slashdot for whatever reason (like the recent 2.6.0-test tree article on slashdot). Then again, maybe having tons of mirrors helps, but there are still 12000-25000 hits per hour on average and served 489GB in July. Don't see a lot of news in this story. Of course redundancy is better, but there is good proof in the world that it's not strictly required.
I can't believe no one has mentioned Real Genius yet. I guess it must really be the most underrated, or else the majority of slashdot users must be too young to remember a movie from 1985.
It's clear that very few people posting actually read the article. Personally, I want hardware accelerated DES and 3DES, and I'd bet that Transmeta already has Linux prototypes with people like Peter Anvin and Linus working there.
Well, naturally I use a big expensive 2500 lumen projector because I love my DVDs and my HDTV. You can plug the RCA DTC-100 into any monitor with a standard HD15 (VGA) connector. The hsync frequency requirements aren't nearly as high as computer use.
Nathan Laredolaredo at gnu
Poor guy, he didn't do his homework shopping....
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I've been watching HDTV off air and off satellite for a couple years now. The author has apparently never heard of the RCA-DTC 100 which receives both DirecTV standard and high definition broadcasts (NASA tv is on the secondary orbit satellite too) and whose single dish supports four receivers, AND the unit includes an off-the-air broadcast HDTV receiver
In Silicon Valley, we can receive NINE digital off-the-air broadcast stations and the RCA-DTC100 doesn't need an expensive HDTV monitor, it can plug into your computer monitor too and it only runs $475 or so. The computer monitor will show more of the high definition signal than most consumer HDTV monitors since they typically just don't have enough phosphors to resolve 1920 horizontal pixels. There is much pixel aliasing
So in short, if the author of the article had done his homework when shopping, he would have known that there are several boxes that receive everything he was interested in in one unit, and he could still see HDTV HBO and watch the Tonight Show [sic] or the Superbowl or Olympics in HDTV
What's more, these days you don't need cable anymore since you can receive the over-the-air stations in better quality than cable offers. Last time I checked the rates for AT&T digital cable, they were infinitely more expensive than using rabbit ears for HD (which works just fine in my case)
Why? Can this fall under the Americans With Disabilities Act? We're not being provided equal access because we are "disabled" in Linux? This seems silly. Vote with your dollars. Go out and buy DVDs now whether you have a drive to play them or not. If industry moves to disable DVD-ROM based playback, of course stop buying DVDs alltogether.
As a result of this development everyone who runs Linux or reads Slashdot should today go out and buy at least one DVD movie, whether you own a DVD-ROM or not. This will send Hollywood and the DVD forum a clear message that they have a much larger market now that they can no longer restrict individual freedom under the guise of "preventing piracy." They accomplished nothing more than annoying users who wanted to play DVD under alternative operating systems.
I was the one who originally ported ircII and ircd to Linux in 1992. Linux networking was just not stable enough at the time to maintain connections. I would lose my connections every few hours, so I ported everything to 386bsd 0.1 and everything was stable and rock solid. This is what originally gave Linux a bad rep in the IRC community. All the time I was running a 386bsd server, I was still developing for Linux though, because for all else, 386bsd was a dog.
Did I mention that I can also PLAY unencrypted dvds under linux? This was how i tested the copies. I've also been working on a hardware mpeg2 decoder driver for linux (it's been done since April).
Re:first post .... .how much is the drive/media?
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Panasonic tells me the 2.6GB media is $25, and the double sided 5.2GB media is $40. They say the drive runs about $550. They gave me a free drive to write the support, and were nice enough to send lots of paper documentation.
In case anyone is curious, I have two PIII500 cpus runing at 560MHz. The PIII is definately an overclockable CPU. Using a 112MHz bus has its advantages.
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This seems to be exactly what Orion Multisystems needs for their 96-node "Galaxy" platform. It makes me wonder if this was originally built for the 96-node (which needs 2 - 3 beefy power supplies in parallel as-is to power all EIGHT 12-node boards in a single chassis).
It's just a dual Pentium III system. vsftpd was the biggest help towards lowering our load (it was exceeding 300 easily), as well as moving from our ancient distro to a modern one with proper threading and moving from prefork to worker in apache 2, and moving to apache2 for sendfile support to begin with.
Don't hold your breath on this one, but I hope to get graphs and stats posted regularly as well as site changelogs in the not to distant future -- you know useless stuff like what the maximum transfer rate with a single client was, historic rates by class, etc.
Word actually starts responding to user input before it's done loading itself so the user *thinks* it's done starting up, but the actual completion of startup is some tens of seconds after the user interface begins responding. Microsoft wants application startup to appear as fast as possible, even if under the covers it really isn't. If you want to test this, just try to see how many features you can actually use in the first second after word loads outside of starting to type your new document and opening top level menus.
I'm in the processing of mirroring the updated iso now, but I've made the first livecd iso available at http://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/live-cd-9.1/
You can get it via ftp, http, or rsync. The -01 cd will take about an hour from the time this message is posted to appear.
Enjoy! Note that we don't currently actively mirror SuSE so there's a large chance that this area will bitrot later since I'm manually making this available.
-- Nathan Laredo
http://nathanlaredo.com/recall.html
With the amount of effort I see people put into making ultra quiet computers, you'd think something like this might actually do well. I'm tired of my own office sounding like a wind tunnel, and I've considered many times moving the white box machines (yes, they're cheap but loud) into a machine room and using something fanless as a remote desktop in my office.
For what it's worth, the only times ftp.kernel.org, www.kernel.org, or mirrors.kernel.org have gone down that I can remember have been hardware failures or raid re-org. There is no redundant server -- all those are on a single host, yet somehow it manages, and every new kernel relese seems to appear on slashdot for whatever reason (like the recent 2.6.0-test tree article on slashdot). Then again, maybe having tons of mirrors helps, but there are still 12000-25000 hits per hour on average and served 489GB in July. Don't see a lot of news in this story. Of course redundancy is better, but there is good proof in the world that it's not strictly required.
http://us.imdb.com/Quotes?0089886
It's clear that very few people posting actually read the article. Personally, I want hardware accelerated DES and 3DES, and I'd bet that Transmeta already has Linux prototypes with people like Peter Anvin and Linus working there.
Well, naturally I use a big expensive 2500 lumen projector because I love my DVDs and my HDTV. You can plug the RCA DTC-100 into any monitor with a standard HD15 (VGA) connector. The hsync frequency requirements aren't nearly as high as computer use.
Nathan Laredo laredo at gnuI've been watching HDTV off air and off satellite for a couple years now. The author has apparently never heard of the RCA-DTC 100 which receives both DirecTV standard and high definition broadcasts (NASA tv is on the secondary orbit satellite too) and whose single dish supports four receivers, AND the unit includes an off-the-air broadcast HDTV receiver
In Silicon Valley, we can receive NINE digital off-the-air broadcast stations and the RCA-DTC100 doesn't need an expensive HDTV monitor, it can plug into your computer monitor too and it only runs $475 or so. The computer monitor will show more of the high definition signal than most consumer HDTV monitors since they typically just don't have enough phosphors to resolve 1920 horizontal pixels. There is much pixel aliasing
So in short, if the author of the article had done his homework when shopping, he would have known that there are several boxes that receive everything he was interested in in one unit, and he could still see HDTV HBO and watch the Tonight Show [sic] or the Superbowl or Olympics in HDTV
What's more, these days you don't need cable anymore since you can receive the over-the-air stations in better quality than cable offers. Last time I checked the rates for AT&T digital cable, they were infinitely more expensive than using rabbit ears for HD (which works just fine in my case)
Nathan Laredo laredo at gnuUGH! When will people learn the difference between then (a temporal transition) and than (a comparison)?
Why? Can this fall under the Americans With Disabilities Act? We're not being provided equal access because we are "disabled" in Linux?
This seems silly. Vote with your dollars. Go out and buy DVDs now whether you have a drive to play them or not. If industry moves to disable DVD-ROM based playback, of course stop buying DVDs alltogether.
As a result of this development everyone who runs Linux or reads Slashdot should today go out and buy at least one DVD movie, whether you own a DVD-ROM or not. This will send Hollywood and the DVD forum a clear message that they have a much larger market now that they can no longer restrict individual freedom under the guise of "preventing piracy." They accomplished nothing more than annoying users who wanted to play DVD under alternative operating systems.
I was the one who originally ported ircII and ircd to Linux in 1992. Linux networking was just not stable enough at the time to maintain connections. I would lose my connections every few hours, so I ported everything to 386bsd 0.1 and everything was stable and rock solid. This is what originally gave Linux a bad rep in the IRC community. All the time I was running a 386bsd server, I was still developing for Linux though, because for all else, 386bsd was a dog.
Did I mention that I can also PLAY unencrypted dvds
under linux? This was how i tested the copies.
I've also been working on a hardware mpeg2 decoder
driver for linux (it's been done since April).
Panasonic tells me the 2.6GB media is $25, and
the double sided 5.2GB media is $40. They say
the drive runs about $550. They gave me a
free drive to write the support, and were
nice enough to send lots of paper documentation.
Some of them are losing money in fact.
In case anyone is curious, I have two PIII500
cpus runing at 560MHz. The PIII is definately
an overclockable CPU. Using a 112MHz bus has
its advantages.
-- Nathan Laredo, laredo@gnu