That CD (aka "The Sounds of Slashdot") was given away for free at the Slashdot booth at LinuxWorld in New York last February. And this guy has the guts to _sell_ it, probably as a collector's piece. Some people have no idea of what ethics means...
Have a look at this, by the end of the list (Unisys hardware). We were and still are, the best performing OS for this benchmark on non-NUMA Intel based systems using Oracle as the RDBMS. I myself had to sweat a while in CA to get that score. Now, what the marketing people and the always unpredictable stock market made of it, is beyond my understanding.
These days, being good just is not enough, you also have to boast about your achievements in such a way that the speculators on Wall Street become aware that you're doing serious stuff.
This could have been posted anonymously but it isn't.
Not directly computer related, but you can download free books from the Project Gutenberg. Also, if you have a scanner and lots of free time, you can contribute to their online library...
Maybe the fact that the next version of Communicator will be 6.0 instead of 5.0 is due to the controversial AOL 5.0. That would make perfect sense, at least to me.
In a country where people make no difference between good and well, and where being a gentleman (or trying to behave as one) is considered as a handicap, it should be no surprise - but I'm still shocked - by this disturbing and widespread confusion that is, after all, nothing more than a fact of life, between the concepts of an "alien" and a "foreigner."
To me, an alien is that creature from outer space which made Ridley Scott famous whereas he deserved that fame for an earlier movie of his: "The Duellists."
A foreigner is simply a person who comes from a different country. That implies a different culture, of course, but not necessarily the fact that your blood should be based on nitric acid and that your goal in life should be to exterminate every human being on the ship. After all, like they said in Gilliam's masterpiece "Brazil": "We're all in it together."
Maybe my problem is I learned English English at school and not American English.
Splitting them up seems to be the only reasonable way to go. To me, decoupling the base "OS" (I'd rather say "execution environment", because in the normal world the GUI is not an integral part of the system) from applications is essential. Also the online business should be a separate thing. Their growing hardware department (see recent posts regarding their X-Box) should also be an isolated entity. So ultimately what I would like to see is this many baby-bills:
- base OS. - GUI. - business applications. - online stuff (IE, MSN). - OLTP business center. - hardware business. - games and educational department (this would include things like Encarta).
Of course, everything released as open source cannot be bad, but in the applications-known-not-to-work department, we can see some ultra-classics that should work: Quake, Quake II and UnReal Tournament. OTOH, Quake 3 is supposed to work fine with that stuff.
This does not quite convince me that my next 3D graphics board should be a Voodoo-whatever, though. Does anybody know if TNT drivers have been open-sourced yet?
He used to be a kernel person working for Chorus Systems (bought by Sun about two or three years ago) in Paris, France. This is an extremely good background, you can trust me on that one.
Nobody around here seems to have had any problems having the thing to run on his/her computer. I could not make it with the default drivers installed on my Compaq laptop 1688. Fortunately, the distribution of q3demotest includes a README that refers to the ultimate site for the kind of problems I had: http://www.glsetup.com. From there you can download an installer that will auto-detect your graphics card and automatically download the appropriate driver. Pretty cool stuff indeed. That's the kind of support I like;)
A quick lookup on http:/www.netcraft.com./ reveals that some of the users of Netcape web servers are State Farm (the name I used for the lookup), Dilbert, Playboy, Sybase, Ferrari and Walt Disney. Are these names big enough for your taste?
Navigator 3.04 (X11/Linux) went through all 3 pages without any problem. I stick to this "old" version because it works most of the time. I've tried Communicator 4.7 but the mailer was so slow, not to mention the different UI, that I gave up on it after about 2 hours of utilization.
3.04 is not so bad indeed. Like most other people, I'm waiting for the 1st non beta-release of Mozilla - which will require me to upgrade to Slackware 7 for the glibc 2.1 - and if it doesn't do it, I'll go for the Opera browser.
There's one recent trend I would like to complain about here: browser sniffers. Those f...g JS applets are probably written by good people whose managers are convinced that netsurfers use the most recent release of either NS or IE. This is definitely a wrong assumption. Sites like www.bmwusa.com, www.linuxworldexpo.com or the secured version of www.summitbank.com (I bank in NJ and I am on temporary assignment in CA) will deny access to browsers older than NS 4. That's a shame. HTML used to be an open standard, but then came Sun with all their fancy Java stuff and the world suddently came to an end - at least for NS 3 users...
I've had the same bad experience. Virtuality may magnify things and abolish geographical distance, which is not necessarilly a good thing in itself, but it also creates more opportunity for misunderstandings to develop. On the other hand, online foums/chatrooms may lead to the development one's network of relations, which in turn may result in the right IRL opportunity.
I think my next attempt will be with a matchmaker. It is, after my suster's advice, and I'm not getting any younger, therefore I do not have too much time to lose anymore.
Yes and, for those who don't remember, the roots of Digital Unix are actually OSF/1 which dates back to the glorious days of the Unices war UI vs OSF. That was in the early nineties. The good old times are over, I'm afraid:)
The employment page on NSA's web page (http://www.nsa.gov:8080/programs/employ/index.htm l) states: "NOTE: Employment is for U.S. Citizens ONLY." The net result is that they probably have the best US citizens of the world:)
Now the next question is to know if there are any special "accelerated process" that extremely talented non-US citizens would benefit from if someone at the NSA decided they are to be hired?
You're right to some extent. About as right as this guy a little bit farther down the stream which contribution has "Race to the GHz, chasing the wrong carrot" for its title. Obviously the youngest programmers being educated using fast processors will not necessarilly be sensitive to algorithms's complexity, at least not experimentally. That's for the human impact of such high core frequencies BUT the performance of a computer is something more complex and maybe some more thought (and more money) should be dedicated to the design of faster memory busses and memory chips.
What's the point of running at 1GHz if an L2 cache miss stalls you for (wild guess) 20 cycles? Assuming that a program running on a 1GHz CPU is reading from memory sequentially word by word (32 bits words) and causes an L2 miss every four accesses with the latency stated above, what would be the actual number of loads executed per second? 1000E6*(4/23)=173E6. We may be better off doing some data prefetching to minimize the cost of a cache miss...
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That CD (aka "The Sounds of Slashdot") was given away for free at the Slashdot booth at LinuxWorld in New York last February. And this guy has the guts to _sell_ it, probably as a collector's piece. Some people have no idea of what ethics means...
Then you probably do not consider Solaris to be in the "true" Unix world...
We're talking about Unix version 7 here, not SYSV.
Have a look at this, by the end of the list (Unisys hardware). We were and still are, the best performing OS for this benchmark on non-NUMA Intel based systems using Oracle as the RDBMS. I myself had to sweat a while in CA to get that score. Now, what the marketing people and the always unpredictable stock market made of it, is beyond my understanding.
These days, being good just is not enough, you also have to boast about your achievements in such a way that the speculators on Wall Street become aware that you're doing serious stuff.
This could have been posted anonymously but it isn't.
Not directly computer related, but you can download free books from the Project Gutenberg. Also, if you have a scanner and lots of free time, you can contribute to their online library...
Reminds me of Andrew S. Tanenbaum, you know, that old friend of Linus ;)
That interpretation must be highly cultural. To me it looks more like a heart or the African continent ;)
Don't you think your CRT radiates way more than the cable between your monitor and whatever digital euiqpment is driving it?
Maybe the fact that the next version of Communicator will be 6.0 instead of 5.0 is due to the controversial AOL 5.0. That would make perfect sense, at least to me.
and the Crusoe processor probably need it badly if that processor is to be successful in palmtops...
In a country where people make no difference between good and well, and where being a gentleman (or trying to behave as one) is considered as a handicap, it should be no surprise - but I'm still shocked - by this disturbing and widespread confusion that is, after all, nothing more than a fact of life, between the concepts of an "alien" and a "foreigner."
To me, an alien is that creature from outer space which made Ridley Scott famous whereas he deserved that fame for an earlier movie of his: "The Duellists."
A foreigner is simply a person who comes from a different country. That implies a different culture, of course, but not necessarily the fact that your blood should be based on nitric acid and that your goal in life should be to exterminate every human being on the ship. After all, like they said in Gilliam's masterpiece "Brazil": "We're all in it together."
Maybe my problem is I learned English English at school and not American English.
So long, as Steeve Watson would have said.
No, they own 15% of the capital BUT they have no one on the board. Next time you assert that kind of insults, please check your statements before.
NFS was developed by Sun. As usual, MS was the last vendor to provide this functionality as an integral part of the system.
that would be:
;)
So, so you think you can tell heaven from hell,
blue sky from pain. Can you tell a green field
from a cold steel rail?
from "Wish You Were Here," of course
Splitting them up seems to be the only reasonable way to go. To me, decoupling the base "OS" (I'd rather say "execution environment", because in the normal world the GUI is not an integral part of the system) from applications is essential. Also the online business should be a separate thing. Their growing hardware department (see recent posts regarding their X-Box) should also be an isolated entity. So ultimately what I would like to see is this many baby-bills:
- base OS.
- GUI.
- business applications.
- online stuff (IE, MSN).
- OLTP business center.
- hardware business.
- games and educational department (this would include things like Encarta).
-- I think, therefore I am. Descartes.
Of course, everything released as open source cannot be bad, but in the applications-known-not-to-work department, we can see some ultra-classics that should work: Quake, Quake II and UnReal Tournament. OTOH, Quake 3 is supposed to work fine with that stuff.
This does not quite convince me that my next 3D graphics board should be a Voodoo-whatever, though. Does anybody know if TNT drivers have been open-sourced yet?
He used to be a kernel person working for Chorus Systems (bought by Sun about two or three years ago) in Paris, France. This is an extremely good background, you can trust me on that one.
Nobody around here seems to have had any problems having the thing to run on his/her computer. I could not make it with the default drivers installed on my Compaq laptop 1688. Fortunately, the distribution of q3demotest includes a README that refers to the ultimate site for the kind of problems I had: http://www.glsetup.com. From there you can download an installer that will auto-detect your graphics card and automatically download the appropriate driver. Pretty cool stuff indeed. That's the kind of support I like ;)
A quick lookup on http:/www.netcraft.com./ reveals that some of the users of Netcape web servers are State Farm (the name I used for the lookup), Dilbert, Playboy, Sybase, Ferrari and Walt Disney. Are these names big enough for your taste?
Navigator 3.04 (X11/Linux) went through all 3 pages without any problem. I stick to this "old" version because it works most of the time. I've tried Communicator 4.7 but the mailer was so slow,
not to mention the different UI, that I gave up on it after about 2 hours of utilization.
3.04 is not so bad indeed. Like most other people, I'm waiting for the 1st non beta-release of Mozilla - which will require me to upgrade to Slackware 7 for the glibc 2.1 - and if it doesn't do it, I'll go for the Opera browser.
There's one recent trend I would like to complain about here: browser sniffers. Those f...g JS applets are probably written by good people whose managers are convinced that netsurfers use the most recent release of either NS or IE. This is definitely a wrong assumption. Sites like www.bmwusa.com, www.linuxworldexpo.com or the secured version of www.summitbank.com (I bank in NJ and I am on temporary assignment in CA) will deny access to browsers older than NS 4. That's a shame. HTML used to be an open standard, but then came Sun with all their fancy Java stuff and the world suddently came to an end - at least for NS 3 users...
Not to mention that XFS is still being ported to Linux by the SGI folks...
I've had the same bad experience. Virtuality may magnify things and abolish geographical distance, which is not necessarilly a good thing in itself, but it also creates more opportunity for misunderstandings to develop. On the other hand, online foums/chatrooms may lead to the development one's network of relations, which in turn may result in the right IRL opportunity.
I think my next attempt will be with a matchmaker. It is, after my suster's advice, and I'm not getting any younger, therefore I do not have too much time to lose anymore.
Yes and, for those who don't remember, the roots of Digital Unix are actually OSF/1 which dates back to the glorious days of the Unices war UI vs OSF. That was in the early nineties. The good old times are over, I'm afraid :)
The employment page on NSA's web page (http://www.nsa.gov:8080/programs/employ/index.htm l) states: "NOTE: Employment is for U.S. Citizens ONLY." The net result is that they probably have the best US citizens of the world :)
Now the next question is to know if there are any special "accelerated process" that extremely talented non-US citizens would benefit from if someone at the NSA decided they are to be hired?
You're right to some extent. About as right as this guy a little bit farther down the stream which contribution has "Race to the GHz, chasing the wrong carrot" for its title. Obviously the youngest programmers being educated using fast processors will not necessarilly be sensitive to algorithms's complexity, at least not experimentally. That's for the human impact of such high core frequencies BUT the performance of a computer is something more complex and maybe some more thought (and more money) should be dedicated to the design of faster memory busses and memory chips.
What's the point of running at 1GHz if an L2 cache miss stalls you for (wild guess) 20 cycles? Assuming that a program running on a 1GHz CPU is reading from memory sequentially word by word (32 bits words) and causes an L2 miss every four accesses with the latency stated above, what would be the actual number of loads executed per second?
1000E6*(4/23)=173E6. We may be better off doing some data prefetching to minimize the cost of a cache miss...