It was either the Inquirer or The Register that had an interesting article saying that these CPUs (which are MP Xeons) still have their multi-cpu support enabled, thus saving astute customers thousands of dollars over their full-priced, $3,900 Xeon counterparts.
Isn't the X client/server built to naturally support being used transperantly via the network??
Yes, but modern graphics-rich window managers and applications pull a lot more packets than the X windows of olden days. The first time I saw an X terminal, it was at a trade show in 1987. It was running through a 19,200 baud serial link and the apparent speed was very useable. But take, for instance, todays web browsing. I've got B3ta in another window in my X terminal which I'm posting this from. With that site's animated gifs and all, I'm consuming about 8,500 packets per second from the Konqueror client and feeding out about 1,500 OK packets per second back out to it.
Perhaps we can have a new category for the Billboard Top 100 -- Corporate Rock. Peppy and positive tunes designed to bring out the best productivity and upbeat morale for your employees!
Gee, and nobody has taken a swipe at MicroS**t for their inability to release an X86-64 version of their crappy software in a timely manner.
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That's a pretty good idea.
I use a bunch of homemade Xterminals made out of Nforce boards and we have replaced/sbin/init itself with an executable shell script (and use ash for the shell instead of bash). The entire contents of init is this:
No shutdown script is necessary because Xterminal users simply logout and turn them off.
I think one of the biggest slowdowns on PCs is the lame PCBIOS which takes a very long time to run through all the hardware. I remember following LinuxBIOS development. It is so fast, that it was finished checking the computer's hardware before the disk drives finished spinning up.
When your stuck on how to code something....
run a competition and let others do the coding for you.
I actually read the terms and conditions. You're absolutely correct:
(vi) licenses to TopCoder and Google rights to all information submitted during the tournament (including rights to source code and other executables),
All the top countries either have public ownership or heavily-regulated monopoly ownership of the last-mile pipes. Very, very simple.
The US is under the yoke of what I call Mississippi Economic Theory -- deregulate public utilities, because greed is good and that greed will deliver better public utilities.
The bill was submitted by Joe Pitts, and co-sponsored by Chris John, John Sullivan, and Jim DeMint. It would be really, really nice if a group such as EFF would begin targeting Congress critters by selecting a vulnerable RIAA lapdog and supporting his opponent. All it takes is one victory to put the brakes on their nonsense. Just one.
In many situations, profit motive alone produces very stupid results. Profit motive has given us wasteful situations where both the monopolistic companie's cable and dsl feed the same neighborhoods on the same poles. These monopolies often refuse to offer high-speed uploads, they don't allow users to serve their own email or web pages.
As a customer of broadband (stuck with cable), there is little differentiation and certainly no economic freedom to chose the service I need. Take one monopoly, add greed and you have little incentive for ISP to work for their money.
Indeed. I also wonder why they keep plugging away at the 'support' and 'training' issue. Some tech journal's articles seem to be written from a strictly corporate/academic standpoint.
That was definitely the case at IDG in the late 80's. I then worked at a company that did some Linotronic service bureau work for IDG. Their journalists were hired based on their history as journalists, and not on IT experience.
Now, we keep seeing articles based on IT buzzwords, rather than people's dirty hands. BSD would get mentioned in articles, but only if they bought ads to run in those magazines. If Dell decided to sell machines with a BSD preinstalled and advertised the fact or sent press releases, then it would be mentioned. Otherwise, those journalist's world is very, very small
Problem is when you spend too much time deciding if the timeslice request is from the gui or if it is from your ethernet interrupt or if it is from your game port or if it is from your disk drive, keyboard, frying pan, toilet, telephone, tea kettle, tissue paper dispenser, trackball, Bob, etc. etc.
I have been trying for several days to download the ISO's on the MIPS version of Debian. My main irritaton with this is the fact that the FTP keeps timing out.
Use an http connection to download. I've found it more trouble free than an ftp connection.
Linux desktops should be going for new and wonderful, not same old same old.
One very old method which is lost to many stuck in the Windows-style autonomous desktop computing 'para-dime' is to use Xterminals. Based on off-the-shelf PC components and fat, cheap 2 and 4-way Opteron servers, this old way saves the cost and support headache of many, many drive spindles and duplicated operating system maintenance. The K-12Linux project has shown the way for many schools. Governments and businesses can adopt the same old-fashioned methodology.
Ok, well first of all, it was stupid of these consumers to purchase OS X for systems which it was known not to work on. I'd considered purchasing OSX for my wife's old Powerbook G3, until I learned that OS X wasn't made to work with it. I wasn't stupid and plunk down money on software that wouldn't do me any good.
But the word on the street wasn't what the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field said about OSX on G3s. Stevie continues to unnessarily make bogus claims about Apple products. It continues to cost Apple money and customers.
I hope so. Just who is the 'ESA' anyway? After all, I or you could form a company called MBSA (Master Bait's Software Association) and perform the same audit nonsense that the BSA does. I could demand people pay me 'fines' for using unauthorized software or from people who put naughty files on their ftp server, etc.
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Here's the benefit to the US government/corporate bedfellows: every individual gets their own block of addresses. Therefore it is easier to track terrorists and make America a safer place, therefore more votes and patronage for the corporates.
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Yes, but modern graphics-rich window managers and applications pull a lot more packets than the X windows of olden days. The first time I saw an X terminal, it was at a trade show in 1987. It was running through a 19,200 baud serial link and the apparent speed was very useable. But take, for instance, todays web browsing. I've got B3ta in another window in my X terminal which I'm posting this from. With that site's animated gifs and all, I'm consuming about 8,500 packets per second from the Konqueror client and feeding out about 1,500 OK packets per second back out to it.
I use a bunch of homemade Xterminals made out of Nforce boards and we have replaced
No shutdown script is necessary because Xterminal users simply logout and turn them off.
I think one of the biggest slowdowns on PCs is the lame PCBIOS which takes a very long time to run through all the hardware. I remember following LinuxBIOS development. It is so fast, that it was finished checking the computer's hardware before the disk drives finished spinning up.
I actually read the terms and conditions. You're absolutely correct: (vi) licenses to TopCoder and Google rights to all information submitted during the tournament (including rights to source code and other executables),
All the top countries either have public ownership or heavily-regulated monopoly ownership of the last-mile pipes. Very, very simple. The US is under the yoke of what I call Mississippi Economic Theory -- deregulate public utilities, because greed is good and that greed will deliver better public utilities.
Running Squid with a 256mb ram disk cache is all the speedup we need, and it does so without altering the data being fed from upstream.
As a customer of broadband (stuck with cable), there is little differentiation and certainly no economic freedom to chose the service I need. Take one monopoly, add greed and you have little incentive for ISP to work for their money.
That was definitely the case at IDG in the late 80's. I then worked at a company that did some Linotronic service bureau work for IDG. Their journalists were hired based on their history as journalists, and not on IT experience.
Now, we keep seeing articles based on IT buzzwords, rather than people's dirty hands. BSD would get mentioned in articles, but only if they bought ads to run in those magazines. If Dell decided to sell machines with a BSD preinstalled and advertised the fact or sent press releases, then it would be mentioned. Otherwise, those journalist's world is very, very small
When a contract is drawn up with ignorance of contract law.
The average joe sixpack linux user doesn't have root access, so how are these so-called equivalent scripts going to work?
Problem is when you spend too much time deciding if the timeslice request is from the gui or if it is from your ethernet interrupt or if it is from your game port or if it is from your disk drive, keyboard, frying pan, toilet, telephone, tea kettle, tissue paper dispenser, trackball, Bob, etc. etc.
Use an http connection to download. I've found it more trouble free than an ftp connection.
One very old method which is lost to many stuck in the Windows-style autonomous desktop computing 'para-dime' is to use Xterminals. Based on off-the-shelf PC components and fat, cheap 2 and 4-way Opteron servers, this old way saves the cost and support headache of many, many drive spindles and duplicated operating system maintenance. The K-12Linux project has shown the way for many schools. Governments and businesses can adopt the same old-fashioned methodology.
But the word on the street wasn't what the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field said about OSX on G3s. Stevie continues to unnessarily make bogus claims about Apple products. It continues to cost Apple money and customers.
Scam, scam, scam.
Here's the benefit to the US government/corporate bedfellows: every individual gets their own block of addresses. Therefore it is easier to track terrorists and make America a safer place, therefore more votes and patronage for the corporates.
Sure, people can't ingnore this, but tell me which kernel developers depend on corporate acceptance, marketshare and all that other commercial crap?