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well, will those quite familiar with aix please enlighten us with what linux could be missing? it's got xfs, lvm, ppc support. and that's about the end of what i know aix and linux now share.
wow, i guess it's finally gonna be NT's moment to shine, with NT standing for Needs a Terabyte. that microsoft, it sure does know it's stuff. who woulda known that 5 years ago when NT was released that $5,000 machines would have a terabyte of disk space, ideal for NT. microsoft is a visionary in that sense.
i imagine that this will be useful for a terminal machine. just plug one end into the serial cable, the other into the machine. with one of those ethernet adapters (palm has some, right?), you could get a little ssh/telnet client going, would be sweet. then you'd need one of those little folding keyboards, but it would work. and i hope the battery life stays up there too. this kind of thing just might make me break down and buy one.
i posted the following to comp.os.linux.hardware a few weeks back. the numbers are lower, reasons being: beta tyan board, mem speed is only 119mhz for some reason(not 133), producing 1071 mhz cpu speed. the demo for q3, which is older than that used in this test.
enjoy
the following hardware is identical under both conditions.
visiontek geforce3
the quake3 free demo was used.
for your enlightenment, i will post my Quake3 demo benchmarks under linux on
the following boards. the first is the Tyan S5250, an 840 board, with dual
p3-1ghz, and 1gig rambus ram. 2.4.5 kernel, XFree86-4.1.0, nvidia binary
drivers 1.0-1251. agpgart was not used, as it was slower than nvidia's
nvagp support using agp4x, probably because the 840 isn't that well
supported under agpgart. using hi-quality settings under q3 and doing
demo001, i got 119fps.
on a Tyan S2462, a 760mp dual athlon board with dual 1066mhz chips(are
1.33ghz chips, but posted at 1066 for some reason), with 256 meg ddr sdram
running at 266. same 2.4.5 kernel, XFree86-4.1.0, nvidia binary drivers
1.2-1251. once again agpgart was not used, as it complained that it was an
unsupported chipset. doing agp_try_unsupported=1(or whatever it was, can't
remember, but it was the right thing), didn't work either. using nvagp
listed it as generic amd chip with support for agp4x. i edited the
nv-registry.c(or whiver one it was) to include sba support, which only took
on this chipset. using hi-quality settings and doing demo001, i got 133
fps.
both these seemed low to me. possible reasons are poor support in nvagp for
840 (a server chipset, not exactly a gaming platform) and the 760mp, which
is really new. also, the older version of q3 which is in the demo probably
doesn't have as good support for dual cpu's. also, agpgart has no support
for the 760mp, so i couldn't even test it. nevertheless, the clear winner
is the 760mp system. it was only 6% faster in cpu speed, less ram, slower
memory, and it is 12% faster in q3. not too shabby.
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great, that's just what we need. next thing you know, we're reading about an international incident involving developers in a gymnasium who went on a panty raid.
".... One developer was arrested after refusing to give back the panties. He claimed that they were 'rightfully' his, as they had a picture of a penguin on them. It appears that the lack of an Internet connection in the gymnasium caused severe withdrawal symptoms among the developers. It is unkown at this point if there is a medical precedent for....."
sure this is a good idea, read a book about consulting to help you become a consultant. anyway....
what's available online? with all these stories about 'how i battled an irc hacker' or 'how i saved slashdot' or 'how a killer bear attacked our noc, and my linux skills saved us', there's got to be a site somewhere that has info regarding consultants. any help?
also, what's with the open magazine banners? the same company that owns slashdot owns open magazine. i find that suspect.
with xfree86 4.02 and the rage hardware, which i am so glad to see being pushed out of the way by better nvidia chips on ppc(even though ydl doesn't support them yet), does hardware mesa-gl/glx work? i know q3 doesn't support it, but maybe quakeforge would? anybody know?
is it just me, or is 84 megs an awful lot for aol? it seems an effective way to cut down on bloatware is to include it on the windows cd. imagine if ms did this. or maybe offer certain companies a certain size, say 10 megs, to include what it wanted. it's not gonna happen, but if it did, it would surely produce some interesting ideas on how to combat this. one last though, is aol using the best compression? very simple idea, but i'd like to know.
For the lazy(read: efficient) among us who find it too much work to hit google, would somebody care to describe the status of linux and apache with ipv6? or any other web server, for that matter. and since at least one freebsd freak is going to post 'we've had ipv6 working for ages now. that just proves we're better.' well, who cares? but post it anyway.
there's only 2 questions i have. when and where? i mean, come on, where else are you gonna be able to use this sort of technlology? even if i had the money to buy a 390, i wouldn't. well, for personal use at least. is it gonna be a link on the zseries page? i'm gonna sign up asap, and gonna see what i can build on it. i'm gonna try and build quakeforge on it. i won't be able to play it, unless i export the display, which is useless unless i'm on a lan with it, which i won't be. my only gripe is that redhat won't be offered. oh well, them's the breaks. i think it would look good on a resume. or something...
the way i see it, this will take off like the LS-120 drives. come on, show of hands, who has one? that's what i thought. the new itanium boxes use ls-120 instead of floppies, but besides them? well, the prototype itanium's were. maybe i'm not supposed to say anything about them, but i didn't sign the nda, the company did. and they fired me, so.....
Re:Why i'm still not switching...
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I didn't have to build myself. I came fully assembled.
when i went to the university of rhode island, i had a savitch java book, and needed to use code warrior. there were 15 windows machines, 4 macs and 2 or 3 linux machines. when i got there, all the windows machines were doubled up, and that left me with a mac. i saw the linux machines, and the attitude around them was that you needed to get explicit permission to use them, needed to ask the professor to add and account for you, you needed to submit your blood for dna testing to ensure you weren't predisposed to ruining these 'sacred elite machines'. they treated it as if the linux machines were on pedestals. now that would surely make it easy for me to start using linux if i were a newbie.
i used the mac for 5 minutes, nothing worked, and asked to do the work on one of my machines in my dorm room. i got denied.
i stayed there for a few more weeks and then left. they need to get with the times.
and then i ruined all that was good to me. i miss her.
i don't know about all other computer geeks, but some, like me, had to be a 'non-typical-geek'. meaning, partying with the football guys when they showed up at parties. also, being 6' tall with an attitude to match helped. didn't anyone else think "ya, i like computers, you got a problem with it?" not out to make trouble, but not going to be pushed around. there are others out there, right? or is the typical computer geek true to the stereotype?
of course it's stable now. i'm sure virgin nt 4.0 was stable. just wait until the service packs and hot fixes muck things up for you. the sp1 for office 2k makes it so that you can't uninstall it. it asks for the office 2000 sp1 cd, even if you downloaded the update. basically you're dead in the water. and this is the best in the world? it makes me sick. free software i can understand if it's not perfect, but this? absolutely disguists me. please visit www.windowstolinux.com and give me some ideas. or better yet, hire me!
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well, will those quite familiar with aix please enlighten us with what linux could be missing? it's got xfs, lvm, ppc support. and that's about the end of what i know aix and linux now share.
blah blah, where are the benchmarks. some definitive examples of ia64 speeds, etc..
it was funny, not flamebait.
wow, i guess it's finally gonna be NT's moment to shine, with NT standing for Needs a Terabyte. that microsoft, it sure does know it's stuff. who woulda known that 5 years ago when NT was released that $5,000 machines would have a terabyte of disk space, ideal for NT. microsoft is a visionary in that sense.
i imagine that this will be useful for a terminal machine. just plug one end into the serial cable, the other into the machine. with one of those ethernet adapters (palm has some, right?), you could get a little ssh/telnet client going, would be sweet. then you'd need one of those little folding keyboards, but it would work. and i hope the battery life stays up there too. this kind of thing just might make me break down and buy one.
might
i posted the following to comp.os.linux.hardware a few weeks back. the numbers are lower, reasons being: beta tyan board, mem speed is only 119mhz for some reason(not 133), producing 1071 mhz cpu speed. the demo for q3, which is older than that used in this test.
enjoy the following hardware is identical under both conditions. visiontek geforce3 the quake3 free demo was used. for your enlightenment, i will post my Quake3 demo benchmarks under linux on the following boards. the first is the Tyan S5250, an 840 board, with dual p3-1ghz, and 1gig rambus ram. 2.4.5 kernel, XFree86-4.1.0, nvidia binary drivers 1.0-1251. agpgart was not used, as it was slower than nvidia's nvagp support using agp4x, probably because the 840 isn't that well supported under agpgart. using hi-quality settings under q3 and doing demo001, i got 119fps. on a Tyan S2462, a 760mp dual athlon board with dual 1066mhz chips(are 1.33ghz chips, but posted at 1066 for some reason), with 256 meg ddr sdram running at 266. same 2.4.5 kernel, XFree86-4.1.0, nvidia binary drivers 1.2-1251. once again agpgart was not used, as it complained that it was an unsupported chipset. doing agp_try_unsupported=1(or whatever it was, can't remember, but it was the right thing), didn't work either. using nvagp listed it as generic amd chip with support for agp4x. i edited the nv-registry.c(or whiver one it was) to include sba support, which only took on this chipset. using hi-quality settings and doing demo001, i got 133 fps. both these seemed low to me. possible reasons are poor support in nvagp for 840 (a server chipset, not exactly a gaming platform) and the 760mp, which is really new. also, the older version of q3 which is in the demo probably doesn't have as good support for dual cpu's. also, agpgart has no support for the 760mp, so i couldn't even test it. nevertheless, the clear winner is the 760mp system. it was only 6% faster in cpu speed, less ram, slower memory, and it is 12% faster in q3. not too shabby.
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Patrick Paul
Microway.com
patrick@no_microway_spam.com
great, that's just what we need. next thing you know, we're reading about an international incident involving developers in a gymnasium who went on a panty raid. ".... One developer was arrested after refusing to give back the panties. He claimed that they were 'rightfully' his, as they had a picture of a penguin on them. It appears that the lack of an Internet connection in the gymnasium caused severe withdrawal symptoms among the developers. It is unkown at this point if there is a medical precedent for ....."
sure this is a good idea, read a book about consulting to help you become a consultant. anyway.... what's available online? with all these stories about 'how i battled an irc hacker' or 'how i saved slashdot' or 'how a killer bear attacked our noc, and my linux skills saved us', there's got to be a site somewhere that has info regarding consultants. any help? also, what's with the open magazine banners? the same company that owns slashdot owns open magazine. i find that suspect.
with xfree86 4.02 and the rage hardware, which i am so glad to see being pushed out of the way by better nvidia chips on ppc(even though ydl doesn't support them yet), does hardware mesa-gl/glx work? i know q3 doesn't support it, but maybe quakeforge would? anybody know?
is it just me, or is 84 megs an awful lot for aol? it seems an effective way to cut down on bloatware is to include it on the windows cd. imagine if ms did this. or maybe offer certain companies a certain size, say 10 megs, to include what it wanted. it's not gonna happen, but if it did, it would surely produce some interesting ideas on how to combat this. one last though, is aol using the best compression? very simple idea, but i'd like to know.
For the lazy(read: efficient) among us who find it too much work to hit google, would somebody care to describe the status of linux and apache with ipv6? or any other web server, for that matter. and since at least one freebsd freak is going to post 'we've had ipv6 working for ages now. that just proves we're better.' well, who cares? but post it anyway.
there's only 2 questions i have. when and where? i mean, come on, where else are you gonna be able to use this sort of technlology? even if i had the money to buy a 390, i wouldn't. well, for personal use at least. is it gonna be a link on the zseries page? i'm gonna sign up asap, and gonna see what i can build on it. i'm gonna try and build quakeforge on it. i won't be able to play it, unless i export the display, which is useless unless i'm on a lan with it, which i won't be. my only gripe is that redhat won't be offered. oh well, them's the breaks. i think it would look good on a resume. or something...
the way i see it, this will take off like the LS-120 drives. come on, show of hands, who has one? that's what i thought. the new itanium boxes use ls-120 instead of floppies, but besides them? well, the prototype itanium's were. maybe i'm not supposed to say anything about them, but i didn't sign the nda, the company did. and they fired me, so.....
I didn't have to build myself. I came fully assembled.
when i went to the university of rhode island, i had a savitch java book, and needed to use code warrior. there were 15 windows machines, 4 macs and 2 or 3 linux machines. when i got there, all the windows machines were doubled up, and that left me with a mac. i saw the linux machines, and the attitude around them was that you needed to get explicit permission to use them, needed to ask the professor to add and account for you, you needed to submit your blood for dna testing to ensure you weren't predisposed to ruining these 'sacred elite machines'. they treated it as if the linux machines were on pedestals. now that would surely make it easy for me to start using linux if i were a newbie.
i used the mac for 5 minutes, nothing worked, and asked to do the work on one of my machines in my dorm room. i got denied.
i stayed there for a few more weeks and then left. they need to get with the times.
and then i ruined all that was good to me. i miss her.
i don't know about all other computer geeks, but some, like me, had to be a 'non-typical-geek'. meaning, partying with the football guys when they showed up at parties. also, being 6' tall with an attitude to match helped. didn't anyone else think "ya, i like computers, you got a problem with it?" not out to make trouble, but not going to be pushed around. there are others out there, right? or is the typical computer geek true to the stereotype?
of course it's stable now. i'm sure virgin nt 4.0 was stable. just wait until the service packs and hot fixes muck things up for you. the sp1 for office 2k makes it so that you can't uninstall it. it asks for the office 2000 sp1 cd, even if you downloaded the update. basically you're dead in the water. and this is the best in the world? it makes me sick. free software i can understand if it's not perfect, but this? absolutely disguists me. please visit www.windowstolinux.com and give me some ideas. or better yet, hire me!
For christ's sake, i thought this was america. this shit pisses me off.
any chance of it running on the as400? first post?