Not until Apple ships a dual capable mobo with integrated 100 bit or 1000 bit ethernet and integrated video, so that either they or someone
else can slap them into 1U enclosures
Apple's current G4 motherboards are all dual-processor capable, and the G4's also include Gigabit ethernet now, and thier older motherboards (Beige G3) also included integrated video.
Re:Will this catch on in the web hosting community (Score:1)
by um... Lucas (lk@caralis.com) on Friday November 03, @09:33AM PDT (#176)
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Not until Apple ships a dual capable mobo with integrated 100 bit or 1000 bit ethernet and integrated video, so that either they or someone
else can slap them into 1U enclosures. Because right now, you can fit 13 or 14 cobalt raq's into the space required by 3 or 4 G4's. So it's not
really a winning proposition that way.
At some point a while back, some outfit was shipping 1U enclosures for iMac motherboards,
I believe that outfit was Marathon Computers. They also will mount your B&W G3/G4 into a 4U rack (that's still pretty big).
While I'm far from an astronmer, I was wondering if we could somehow use the Hubble Space Telescope to study the planets in our solar system? Would Hubble give us a good view of the Outer planets, especially ones we haven't studied like Pluto or the new Kuiper belt object, or are they too close to us for Hubble to focus in on?
I am simply asking for a logical explanation of where the water went.
Duh, A giant Spaceship that turned into a giant vaccum cleaner (IIRC, Lord Dark-helmet lead the mission) and sucked up all of the oxygen (for their Perri-Air plants), and all of the water accidentally went with it.
They weren't as successful on their next mission:
Druidia :-)
I strongly recommend that you try some other US beers than Sam Adams (their stuff is alright (much better than Bud), but they do have some better seasonal beers)
Try: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale It's a dark golden color that has a great bitter taste to it. (In fact, most beers from the Sierra Nevada brewing company are really good, and can be found across the USA.
Portland Brewing Company has two great beers...McTarnahan Ale (a lighter ale that's much better than Sam) or Haystack Black, which is one of the greatest dark beers on Earth. The flavor and aroma of Haystack Black is amazing!
Also, you should give Anchor Steam a try, as it's very good too, and is made with a very unique brewing style...
This isn't the right direction for NASA. I think that they are doing this "Astro-biology" thing just so that they can get publicity. IMHO, adding six new Mars missions and then canceling (uh, I mean postponing) the Pluto-Kuiper misson is a big mistake. The reason is that Pluto has an athmosphere right now, which is expected to freeze over for 200 years in around 2015. If we don't get a probe there before that date, then we will lose lots of scientific data about Pluto.
The important fact to remember is that we can launch to Mars every 2 years, but we only get 1 opportunity to reach Pluto. For more information, check out Pluto Mission.
...but I do it would be cool to send a person to Mars, though!
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he plugged back into the Apple customer and made a real attempt to satisfy what Apple customers want
(disclaimer--I'm a long time Macintosh Owner & supporter (since '88)...as well as a Linux user (circa 1997))
What has Steve Jobs done to satisfy what the Apple Customer wants? I have a few examples
He killed the clones. Granted they were killing Apple's business, but Apple wasn't producing machines as fast or as sleek as the clone companies. It took almost 2 years for Apple to catch up to Power Computing's PowerTowerG3/275 (or something like that), and it took Apple almost 6 months to release a motherboard that ran at 66MHz (Motorola was close to shipping one right before the no clone policy.)
He doesn't ship any 6 PCI slot machines. Many of the people in Apple's Core markets need as many PCI slots as possible. SCSI (another sore subject), Video Caputre Cards, Video Cards (for multiple monitors), etc, are put to use well inside a Mac system.
Their B&W G3 "Trojan Horse" firmware upgrade. They issued a required upgrade for their Blue & White G3 Macs that disabled the machine if you upgraded to a G4 processor before Apple wanted you to. They later fixed this situation, but most Mac users weren't happy.
A few weeks after the B&W incident, Apple tried to ship G4 machines @ 400, 450 & 500 MHz. They couldn't get enough 500MHz chips, so they dropped the speeds down 50MHz, and then raised the prices of some people's orders (ie, if I ordered the 450MHz machine before Apple changed speed ratings, I would be shipped the 450MHz machine at the old 500MHz price...)
Recently, Apple charged their customers $30 to debug their beta OS! Granted it is nice, but it is far from feature complete, and there are lots of thorny issues that Apple needs to straighten out (ie, do you display folders that begin with a "." -- it's a system file/directory in Unix, but it worked fine in OS 9...and a few CD-ROM's I own have folders begining with a ".")
Mike at Xlr8YourMac had a petition to allow third party video cards to be installed at the Apple store. Almost 10,000 people signed it, but Apple seems to have ignored the wishes of thier customers. (FYI, ATI is the current supplier (both Radeon & Rage128 Pro), but 3dfx has Mac support, as does ProFormance, and supposedly the GeForce2MX is capable of supporting the Mac (no drivers, though) )
I'm not saying I hate the Apple, but I (and many other Mac users), has become very frustrated to the way Apple treats their die-hard group of users. There are tons more examples I (and other Mac users) can give you. I really hope that this changes in the future.
And we DO know what they died of. It was big, bad, came out of the sky and made a giant crater in the Yucatan and left a layer of iridium-rich sediment all over the planet.
Uh-Oh, Iridium-rich sediment all over the planet! We better convince Motorola not to burn up Iridium in our athmosphere, or were all going to be in trouble!
That would work fine for another industry, but it will not work if people's lives are on the line at this hospital. Imagine a doctor giving some guy a medicine that they are alergic to, because the doctor couldn't access the records, and you weren't there to help them...
During the past few years, we have seen a wealth of software patents that have been granted by the USPTO. Many of them have been trivially simple ideas (Amazon's 1-Click patent stands out, but I could easily rattle off several more.) Many feel that software should not be granted patents, while others feel that the length of time to a software patents should be shortened (because of the speed the technology moves, the next generation of software usually repaces the current every 18-36 months). A few business people believe that software patents should be treated the same as current non-software patents.
How do you feel on this issue regarding software patents, and if you feel that things need to change, what do you plan to do?
How about the FCC mandating that we abandon all of these different incompatible systems and adopt a single standard cellular phone system like Europe has
I don't think that this is a good idea. It's kinda analogous to saying "We should all abandon all Operating Systems except Windows, so that software will run on all machines." I personally think that competition is good for *most* industries, and the cell phone industry is no exception. When two standards are competing, they will try & provide us with the services *we* want the most.
Get rid of the
mish-mash of competing standards and you'll probably free up tons of bandwidth.
This is *totally* true. When you have two types of cells (such as CDMA->GSM) in a close frequency range, you need about 270KHz to seperate them (on both sides, for a total of just over.5MHz) That can really kill the bandwidth of a system. (FYI, CDMA->CDMA or GSM->GSM doesn't neccessarly need those barriers, except some service providers use them anyways)
I think that it is really cool that more bandwidth is being opened up for the 3G technologies. This will be good because it increases the total amount of users on a system (according to Shannon's equation, if you want more capacity, bandwidth has a linear relationship to capacity, while signal to noise has a log relationship to capacity)
It still leads us to one problem, though. When the FCC designed the first Cell-phone networks in the 800MHz area (The A & B channels), they allotted 10MHz to each carrier (local phone company + one competitor). As useage was increasing, the government allotted 2.5MHz more to each carrier. Except that they didn't give 2.5MHz "chunks" but they split it up how it was distributed. Now here's what the bandwith looks like:
-------------------------------------------
|A''(1MHz) | A (10)| B (10) | A' (1.5)| B'(2.5) |
-------------------------------------------
Because of the location of A', the US wireless system is relagated to using technologies that fit in that 1.5MHz chunk. With CDMA 2000 coming out soon, it is close to the theoritical capacity of the airwaves. Hopefully the government will give some of the 700MHz range to the carriers in the 800MHz zone and require that they no longer update the technology on the 800MHz frequency. Maybe that way we can have even more bandwith!
I personally think that this is kinda cool. I think that if the US & China (and whomever else...I'm just mentioning those countries because they're regarded as "enemies"), are able to find common ground exploring space, then hopefully we could live in a safer world. (Granted, I'm aware that they could be using this as cover to explore missile propultion technology, but I'll be an optimist...)
Heh...as much as I want to M$ broken up, I realize that it isn't going to happen anytime soon. The lawyers involved are enjoying being in the spotlight too much. So here is what I predict happening:
The lawyers from the govt & M$ argue for the next 6 months about the appeals process, then they decide on a 5 month appeal process.
1) Microsoft Windows 2000
2):Cue:Cat by DC
3) CD's from my favorite music authors (including Metallica & Dr. Dre)
4) Internet Filtering software (ie. Net Nanny)
5) A DVD Player approved by the MPAA
There are several compelling reasons to want Linux/BSD/(insert your favorite free OS here) to run on the PowerPC platform. The strongest argument would be that the future of CPU's are cloudy. Nobody knows who is going to be the speed king in 12-18 months...The future release of the itanium and sledgehammer means that the x86 architecture will be undergoing a change, and the best price/performance chip in 12-18 months may be the PowerPC...
Why be different, if all it's buying you is software incompatibility?
There are several people who run nothing but free (as in speech) software. Most free software for Linux86 should compile nicely to PowerPC Linux/Alpha Linux/whatever Linux. For example, if you wanted to set up a webserver (running apache), if you could get a PowerPC solution that outpreformed a x86 solution for the same price, wouldn't you select that one?
most companies' commercial software, if it ever gets released for Linux, gets released for Linux x86
Finally, this situation could change if there is a significant useage of another version of Linux in common use. Before you mention the chiken & egg problem here (no (platform)linux users = no new commercial software & no software = no new (platform)linux users), remeber, that's how Linux86 started...just a few people devoted to the cause...
It would be difficult to call the moon a *national* monument. If I remember correctly, the moon is classified by the UN the same way Anartica is: no one owns it. How can the US declare something like that, if we don't own the moon. It seems to me that the UN would be required to do something like that...
Heh, this is my second attempt at this post, because the first one didn't go through for some reason...maybe Taco is working on the site?
Anyway, to the point, the 256k Level 2 cache on the iBook is significantly better than the 1MB L2 cache on the Powerbooks for this reason: The L2 cache on the iBook is placed on the CPU and runs at the same clock speed as the CPU, while the Powerbook has an external L2 cache that runs at like 1/2 or 3/5 the clock speed of the CPU...There's a quick, unscientific result at Xlr8yourmac.com
Even though the iBook is faster than the Powerbook, I agree that the other features the Powerbook offers (PC Card Slots, Better Screen, etc) are much better than what the iBook offers a professional and thus would be idea for this consumer...
It seems to me that Intel has *really* lost their focus in the post-Andy Grove era. They've acquired a million companies, and are just staying alive because their name is Intel. First the Itanium (well, I guess that started in the Andy era), then the P4 being delayed, now this! Too bad Intels competition can't seem to *majorly* punish them (yea, AMD chips are cool, but they don't have any dual/quad processor support & aren't really being placed into high-end servers by companies like HP or Crapaq (oops, I mean Compaq))
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Not until Apple ships a dual capable mobo with integrated 100 bit or 1000 bit ethernet and integrated video, so that either they or someone else can slap them into 1U enclosures
Apple's current G4 motherboards are all dual-processor capable, and the G4's also include Gigabit ethernet now, and thier older motherboards (Beige G3) also included integrated video.
Re:Will this catch on in the web hosting community (Score:1) by um... Lucas (lk@caralis.com) on Friday November 03, @09:33AM PDT (#176) (User #13147 Info) http://www.dioxidized.com/ Not until Apple ships a dual capable mobo with integrated 100 bit or 1000 bit ethernet and integrated video, so that either they or someone else can slap them into 1U enclosures. Because right now, you can fit 13 or 14 cobalt raq's into the space required by 3 or 4 G4's. So it's not really a winning proposition that way. At some point a while back, some outfit was shipping 1U enclosures for iMac motherboards,
I believe that outfit was Marathon Computers. They also will mount your B&W G3/G4 into a 4U rack (that's still pretty big).
While I'm far from an astronmer, I was wondering if we could somehow use the Hubble Space Telescope to study the planets in our solar system? Would Hubble give us a good view of the Outer planets, especially ones we haven't studied like Pluto or the new Kuiper belt object, or are they too close to us for Hubble to focus in on?
Correct me if I'm wrong (and feel free to flame away :-) ), but IIRC, doesn't water evoporate in a vaccuum except for very low temperatures?
The article says that it's not a problem like a Space Shuttle experiences, because she's not traveling at orbital speed...
I am simply asking for a logical explanation of where the water went.
:-)
Duh, A giant Spaceship that turned into a giant vaccum cleaner (IIRC, Lord Dark-helmet lead the mission) and sucked up all of the oxygen (for their Perri-Air plants), and all of the water accidentally went with it.
They weren't as successful on their next mission:
Druidia
Don't forget Haystack Black as a list of the best stouts...
I strongly recommend that you try some other US beers than Sam Adams (their stuff is alright (much better than Bud), but they do have some better seasonal beers)
Try:
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale It's a dark golden color that has a great bitter taste to it. (In fact, most beers from the Sierra Nevada brewing company are really good, and can be found across the USA.
Portland Brewing Company has two great beers...McTarnahan Ale (a lighter ale that's much better than Sam) or Haystack Black, which is one of the greatest dark beers on Earth. The flavor and aroma of Haystack Black is amazing!
Also, you should give Anchor Steam a try, as it's very good too, and is made with a very unique brewing style...
This isn't the right direction for NASA. I think that they are doing this "Astro-biology" thing just so that they can get publicity. IMHO, adding six new Mars missions and then canceling (uh, I mean postponing) the Pluto-Kuiper misson is a big mistake. The reason is that Pluto has an athmosphere right now, which is expected to freeze over for 200 years in around 2015. If we don't get a probe there before that date, then we will lose lots of scientific data about Pluto.
...but I do it would be cool to send a person to Mars, though!
The important fact to remember is that we can launch to Mars every 2 years, but we only get 1 opportunity to reach Pluto. For more information, check out Pluto Mission.
(disclaimer--I'm a long time Macintosh Owner & supporter (since '88)...as well as a Linux user (circa 1997))
What has Steve Jobs done to satisfy what the Apple Customer wants? I have a few examples
I'm not saying I hate the Apple, but I (and many other Mac users), has become very frustrated to the way Apple treats their die-hard group of users. There are tons more examples I (and other Mac users) can give you. I really hope that this changes in the future.
And we DO know what they died of. It was big, bad, came out of the sky and made a giant crater in the Yucatan and left a layer of iridium-rich sediment all over the planet.
Uh-Oh, Iridium-rich sediment all over the planet! We better convince Motorola not to burn up Iridium in our athmosphere, or were all going to be in trouble!
okay, so it's not funny... =-)
heh, the giant Sequioa Trees in the high Sierra Nevada Mountains (not the ones in Spain =-) ), are known to live almost 2000 years!
According to the NASA Voyager Page, Voyager 1 is further out than Voyager 2 (scroll down to the stats)
That would work fine for another industry, but it will not work if people's lives are on the line at this hospital. Imagine a doctor giving some guy a medicine that they are alergic to, because the doctor couldn't access the records, and you weren't there to help them...
It's the furthest any of our technology has travelled away from us
Not quite...I've read that last year sometime, Voyager 1 passed Pioneer 10 as the most distant craft...
During the past few years, we have seen a wealth of software patents that have been granted by the USPTO. Many of them have been trivially simple ideas (Amazon's 1-Click patent stands out, but I could easily rattle off several more.) Many feel that software should not be granted patents, while others feel that the length of time to a software patents should be shortened (because of the speed the technology moves, the next generation of software usually repaces the current every 18-36 months). A few business people believe that software patents should be treated the same as current non-software patents.
How do you feel on this issue regarding software patents, and if you feel that things need to change, what do you plan to do?
How about the FCC mandating that we abandon all of these different incompatible systems and adopt a single standard cellular phone system like Europe has
.5MHz) That can really kill the bandwidth of a system. (FYI, CDMA->CDMA or GSM->GSM doesn't neccessarly need those barriers, except some service providers use them anyways)
I don't think that this is a good idea. It's kinda analogous to saying "We should all abandon all Operating Systems except Windows, so that software will run on all machines." I personally think that competition is good for *most* industries, and the cell phone industry is no exception. When two standards are competing, they will try & provide us with the services *we* want the most.
Get rid of the mish-mash of competing standards and you'll probably free up tons of bandwidth.
This is *totally* true. When you have two types of cells (such as CDMA->GSM) in a close frequency range, you need about 270KHz to seperate them (on both sides, for a total of just over
I think that it is really cool that more bandwidth is being opened up for the 3G technologies. This will be good because it increases the total amount of users on a system (according to Shannon's equation, if you want more capacity, bandwidth has a linear relationship to capacity, while signal to noise has a log relationship to capacity)
It still leads us to one problem, though. When the FCC designed the first Cell-phone networks in the 800MHz area (The A & B channels), they allotted 10MHz to each carrier (local phone company + one competitor). As useage was increasing, the government allotted 2.5MHz more to each carrier. Except that they didn't give 2.5MHz "chunks" but they split it up how it was distributed. Now here's what the bandwith looks like:
-------------------------------------------
|A''(1MHz) | A (10)| B (10) | A' (1.5)| B'(2.5) |
-------------------------------------------
Because of the location of A', the US wireless system is relagated to using technologies that fit in that 1.5MHz chunk. With CDMA 2000 coming out soon, it is close to the theoritical capacity of the airwaves. Hopefully the government will give some of the 700MHz range to the carriers in the 800MHz zone and require that they no longer update the technology on the 800MHz frequency. Maybe that way we can have even more bandwith!
I personally think that this is kinda cool. I think that if the US & China (and whomever else...I'm just mentioning those countries because they're regarded as "enemies"), are able to find common ground exploring space, then hopefully we could live in a safer world. (Granted, I'm aware that they could be using this as cover to explore missile propultion technology, but I'll be an optimist...)
Heh...as much as I want to M$ broken up, I realize that it isn't going to happen anytime soon. The lawyers involved are enjoying being in the spotlight too much. So here is what I predict happening:
The lawyers from the govt & M$ argue for the next 6 months about the appeals process, then they decide on a 5 month appeal process.
Hmmm...Let's see what I want:
:Cue:Cat by DC
1) Microsoft Windows 2000
2)
3) CD's from my favorite music authors (including Metallica & Dr. Dre)
4) Internet Filtering software (ie. Net Nanny)
5) A DVD Player approved by the MPAA
=-)
There are several compelling reasons to want Linux/BSD/(insert your favorite free OS here) to run on the PowerPC platform. The strongest argument would be that the future of CPU's are cloudy. Nobody knows who is going to be the speed king in 12-18 months...The future release of the itanium and sledgehammer means that the x86 architecture will be undergoing a change, and the best price/performance chip in 12-18 months may be the PowerPC...
Why be different, if all it's buying you is software incompatibility?
There are several people who run nothing but free (as in speech) software. Most free software for Linux86 should compile nicely to PowerPC Linux/Alpha Linux/whatever Linux. For example, if you wanted to set up a webserver (running apache), if you could get a PowerPC solution that outpreformed a x86 solution for the same price, wouldn't you select that one?
most companies' commercial software, if it ever gets released for Linux, gets released for Linux x86
Finally, this situation could change if there is a significant useage of another version of Linux in common use. Before you mention the chiken & egg problem here (no (platform)linux users = no new commercial software & no software = no new (platform)linux users), remeber, that's how Linux86 started...just a few people devoted to the cause...
It would be difficult to call the moon a *national* monument. If I remember correctly, the moon is classified by the UN the same way Anartica is: no one owns it. How can the US declare something like that, if we don't own the moon. It seems to me that the UN would be required to do something like that...
Heh, this is my second attempt at this post, because the first one didn't go through for some reason...maybe Taco is working on the site?
Anyway, to the point, the 256k Level 2 cache on the iBook is significantly better than the 1MB L2 cache on the Powerbooks for this reason: The L2 cache on the iBook is placed on the CPU and runs at the same clock speed as the CPU, while the Powerbook has an external L2 cache that runs at like 1/2 or 3/5 the clock speed of the CPU...There's a quick, unscientific result at Xlr8yourmac.com
Even though the iBook is faster than the Powerbook, I agree that the other features the Powerbook offers (PC Card Slots, Better Screen, etc) are much better than what the iBook offers a professional and thus would be idea for this consumer...
It seems to me that Intel has *really* lost their focus in the post-Andy Grove era. They've acquired a million companies, and are just staying alive because their name is Intel. First the Itanium (well, I guess that started in the Andy era), then the P4 being delayed, now this! Too bad Intels competition can't seem to *majorly* punish them (yea, AMD chips are cool, but they don't have any dual/quad processor support & aren't really being placed into high-end servers by companies like HP or Crapaq (oops, I mean Compaq))
Maybe the DeCSS Judge actually knew about this patent, and was just trying to protect us from being sued! We should all thank him! =-)