doesn't the firmware on alphas have provisions for emulating some of the x86 bios calls? i thought there was something about x86 emulation on the alphalinux.org FAQ.
actually, just for the record, (cuz i've seen this twice so far, and am only halfway down the posts), mysql as of now *does* support transactions. check their website on the most current version for more details.
yea, access is such an sql-compliant database.
i've done this - works pretty good... there are some issues with the date format in access, though so be warned.
i understand that pennsylvania is completed deregulated as well - anyone from that region care to comment on the state of power there?
i've got no sympathy for sce or pg&e - they lobbied for the restructuring here in california, hoping that they'd be able to charge higher rates for electricity when demand goes up. instead, the companies that they sold their power generating facilities to decided to create a shortage, and since the utilities still have a rate cap, they've been caught in their own trap.
fuck 'em. besides, it's amazing how SCE payed out almost $1 billion in dividends just before the end of the year, and now says they're going bankrupt...
there were a significant number of design changes that motorola made to make the chip capable of 733MHz operation - check out the link here for a quick summation.
well, if you ordered it fast enough, it'll be available in about two weeks - that, and a titanium powerbook. the wait time is now up to about 30 days or so...
it takes more than simple registry hacks (that break when pushed to the limit of real multi-user functionality) and an option on the shutdown menu to make a multi-user OS. NT is most definitely not multi-user... the peecee guyz where i work have had many many many problems trying to sucessfully implement thin-clients running against winnt; all kinds of problems with applications not working for concurrent multiple users, even stupid stuff like one user setting the default background pixmap for their desktop makes it the default for all users logged in.
For the purposes of comparison between PC platform and Macintosh, I think it's safe to say that PC platform is defined as an intel-instruction compatible chipset and cpu that uses a BIOS that still persists in keeping track of real and extended memory and uses drive letters for volume access.
Yeah, are you fucking stupid? The PPC is only half again as fast at half the clock-speed!!
Why can't you see the superiority of the Intel architecture? Do paper benchmarks lie? Do you presume that they don't tell all of the story?
I long for the day I too can see base and extended memory shown on my Mac's bootup screen, and I will be forced to refer to my disks as C and D, as opposed to "windows not allowed here" or "NT fucking sucks".
Do you see LinuxPPC becoming more like its i386 brethren (more generic or uniform in hardware support), or taking advantage of some of the PPC hardware's special abilities (altivec on the G4, for example)? I know that linux on the PPC helped drive the frame buffer device for X-Windows, for example; do you see something similar happening for altivec or Firewire?
it has some interesting features, though a monster transfer rate isn't one of them - no addressing, point-to-point connection, etc.
so, with serial ide, if each device can communicate with the cpu directly is there going to be a limit, like scsi and parallel ide, of one data transfer operation at a time per bus? or will it really be serial (like SSA) and allow multiple simultaneous data transfers?
common myth propagated by the education system - roman gods were not the same as greek gods. a number of greek gods were assimilated over a period of time (as were others), but the original roman gods didn't possess mortal characteristics.
hahaha, ya, that's why integrating mozilla and staroffice is such a great idea - two, two, two bloatware suites in one! surf the web, read your email, access your filesystem, edit M$Word documents, and listen to music, all from the same program!!
fucking lame...give me vi and w3c or links any day...
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hmmm, i had absolutely no problems installing and running XonX on my powerbook G4 - pretty damned cool.
i'm gonna switch over all my servers now!!
doesn't the firmware on alphas have provisions for emulating some of the x86 bios calls? i thought there was something about x86 emulation on the alphalinux.org FAQ.
wow, M$ Sql server on sparc? how'd you manage that?
actually, just for the record, (cuz i've seen this twice so far, and am only halfway down the posts), mysql as of now *does* support transactions. check their website on the most current version for more details.
yea, access is such an sql-compliant database. i've done this - works pretty good... there are some issues with the date format in access, though so be warned.
"what do you mean, not every user can su to root?!? How inconvenient!! and i have to set a root password? fuck that! I'm going back to linux!!1!!"
anyone know what the shared memory limit is on linux?
ya, but you realize that when the linux guys start talking about desktop, what they really mean is "windows-like", right?
get real...
i've got no sympathy for sce or pg&e - they lobbied for the restructuring here in california, hoping that they'd be able to charge higher rates for electricity when demand goes up. instead, the companies that they sold their power generating facilities to decided to create a shortage, and since the utilities still have a rate cap, they've been caught in their own trap.
fuck 'em. besides, it's amazing how SCE payed out almost $1 billion in dividends just before the end of the year, and now says they're going bankrupt...
where do you work? my servers have maybe 3 hours of non-use, so backups can be performed and verified...
no, the rolling blackouts should wake people up about lack of government control/intervention over necessary commodities...
there were a significant number of design changes that motorola made to make the chip capable of 733MHz operation - check out the link here for a quick summation.
well, if you ordered it fast enough, it'll be available in about two weeks - that, and a titanium powerbook. the wait time is now up to about 30 days or so...
makes me want to switch from unix to nt...
For the purposes of comparison between PC platform and Macintosh, I think it's safe to say that PC platform is defined as an intel-instruction compatible chipset and cpu that uses a BIOS that still persists in keeping track of real and extended memory and uses drive letters for volume access.
Why can't you see the superiority of the Intel architecture? Do paper benchmarks lie? Do you presume that they don't tell all of the story?
I long for the day I too can see base and extended memory shown on my Mac's bootup screen, and I will be forced to refer to my disks as C and D, as opposed to "windows not allowed here" or "NT fucking sucks".
Great days are ahead of us, m'boys...
Do you see LinuxPPC becoming more like its i386 brethren (more generic or uniform in hardware support), or taking advantage of some of the PPC hardware's special abilities (altivec on the G4, for example)? I know that linux on the PPC helped drive the frame buffer device for X-Windows, for example; do you see something similar happening for altivec or Firewire?
so there is only one data transer per device per bus... lame.
it has some interesting features, though a monster transfer rate isn't one of them - no addressing, point-to-point connection, etc.
so, with serial ide, if each device can communicate with the cpu directly is there going to be a limit, like scsi and parallel ide, of one data transfer operation at a time per bus? or will it really be serial (like SSA) and allow multiple simultaneous data transfers?
common myth propagated by the education system - roman gods were not the same as greek gods. a number of greek gods were assimilated over a period of time (as were others), but the original roman gods didn't possess mortal characteristics.
one might wonder if this bit of game humor wasn't inspired by the doublethink concept in '1984'.
fucking lame...give me vi and w3c or links any day...