That's the first thing I thought about with the announcement. Apple could have had a 1u rack server since the iMac. The iMac's motherboard is quite small. 1u servers are commodity items now.
All the big boys are doing blade servers these days. Maybe in 5 years we get the Xblade?
This is a GOOD thing. I'm not using Mozilla on Linux because I can't figure out how to turn off html email rendering. Have you ever seen something in your email like this?: http://www.spammer.com/1pixel.gif?yourname@yourdom ain.com
That's a very common way to harvest email addresses.
I've been an outside contractor doing things for HP for about 7 years or so. The old HP Way of cooperation amongst the people working there (Silicon Valley area, both Cupertino and Palo Alto) has been replaced by fear and back stabbing competition. There have been constant departmental 'reorganizations' accross the board ever since Fiorina came on.
It has become a mess. The layoffs that are coming will seriously dampen wider economic recovery in the Tech sector, at least in No. California. But I understand that Carly and Curly get around $70 million in bonuses because of the merger. I wonder why they have such an incentive to grow their company's assets?
I suggest you head over to Storage Review and double check the facts about SCSI vs. IDE. While some Windows-style user space benchmark tests will show that reading and writing out of an 8mb cache is faster than doing the same out of a 2mb cache in a mid-range SCSI drive, overall performance definitely belongs to SCSI.
If you check out Storage reviews File Server Benchmark database, you'll see that the fastest ATA drive scores well below half what a 15,000 rpm Fujitsu drive does.
I agree. We do NOT need any legislation. I could care less about any music publisher who wants to milk their ancient CDROM music formats ad infinitum. The music industry's product is an anachronism and should go away as soon as possible. Did the government make laws to prop up the buggy whip industry?
Aside from the million-dollar videos for MTV, all recorded music is just a facsimile of a performance. The corporate bloat that surrounds the publication of these facsimilies should go. The corporate music product is so easily reproducable that it is the best interest of the people that they close their billion-dollar doors. Any musical performer can record music and distribute it without the sleezy, expensive, racketeering, payola crooks who now act as publishers and distributors.
The sickening music publishing industry COULD raise the bar of difficulty on wholesale copying of their product if they improved it with a new 96khz and 5.1 Dolby CD product. But will they bother? Nooooooooooooooooo! Why should they? Some people in this country actually think we NEED to prop up those music-industry fsckwits.
As far as 'pirating' commercial software. Count me as one of those who could care less about such another anachronistic industry. I don't need commercial software and I don't want it either.
How did that old song go? Freedom of choice is what you've got. Freedom from choice is what you want.
On the other hand, who would you rather call for a diskn drive support, Dell or Western Digital? I much prefer putting brand-name components on the inside than having no-name components on the inside with a brand name on the outside!
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IBM made the wrong move. For years they have been leading innovation in the hard drive business, but lately have given up a lot of mind share on the reliability of their drives. They really screwed up with their inability to make good on their Deskstar problems. It's as if they pretended the problem didn't exist!
The prudent approach would be to severely clean house at the top management level of the disk drive division. It's as if the thumbheads at the top don't know any better than to look further than the quarterly bottom line money figures. Sure, their disk-drive profits are probably tanking big time right now. But how can they be so stupid to not know the real reason why, or expect that the current situation must be permanent?
Yes, but what gives them the right to extend their license to other code? The GPL requires that you feed back any changes, etc. They're trying to say, in essence, "if you use our products, you can't use them with other products that aren't licensed to our satisfaction." If this is acceptible, what's to stop them from banning any third-party software whatsoever in the future?
Absolutely nothing. But The US (and maybe Canada) is the only country so far that is stupid enough to grant software patents. At the very worst, Linux will die in the US. Can't you just see Micros**t getting the federal government to block offshore internet addresses of known Linux ftp sites? China successfully blocked unfavorable political sites to 'protect' their population, I'm sure the fat political bastards in Washington can make sure that Microsoft gets the protection they want for a few guarantee$ of future electibility.
I'm looking at upgrading the Linux server to act as a giga switch. We've got two Macs and another Linux workstation. That means four $40 Ark cards (both Macs already have giga-nics)and a changing over to a $65 SiS745-based motherboard. SiS claims they have a concurrent line (1.2GB/second bus total) to each of six PCI masters. The server we're using now does file and print serving for only two people. I think it will be able to handle giga-switching quite well.
The godless Red Menace will produce a genetically superior million-man army of cloned soldiers, selected for their size and prowess, intent upon landing upon our shores, intent on crushing our American Way.
It doesn't matter if the author leaves the project. Since it is under GPL, somebody with Gentoo or LFS or anybody else for that matter can pick it up from where he left off.
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It is hardly news. CompUSA probably just has demos of applications software.
Kinkos has always been the best place to get software. Sure, you have to pay by the hour, but their Macs are/were equipped with zip drives, later CDR drives, but this new Firewire thing is a real boon for getting bloatware.
What I'd like to know is if the iPod can play music while you're getting your copy of Office. If Apple used Linux or Darwin in the iPod, that would be a no-braner!
I suppose that if you're an atheist this would make sense, but surprisingly there are still many people who do believe in a God.
Yes, I believe in God and isn't it obvious that human beings are not the end-all, be-all of this universe? We are one of millions of species of life on this tiny planet--one of billions of planets in this galaxy -- one-of-billions of galaxies. In fact, there is no religious dogma that I know of that does NOT promise an end of the world!
Our minds have given us a definite one-up on survival, thus we're overpopulating. What could be more simple?
Since this universe is ALWAYS in balance, there's no way that 6 billion animals can hide the fact that they need to deal with 6 billion stinky turds per day. There's no way that these six billion humans can each own a car. There's no room, not enough raw materials, not enough ability to create the energy necessary to run six billion autos.
What if there were only 2 billion humans? Wouldn't the world's quality of life be much better? Only 2 billion turds per day to get rid of! And wouldn't there be more of a chance that each one of those 2 billions could enjoy a better quality life? Isn't that what your God promises?
I'm totally happy with trailing-edge technology. Every April I get a new motherboard and whatever new CPU that costs between $70 and $80 dollars.
Last year I decided I was sick of 3d games, so I got a real cheap $68 ECS K7SEM all-in-one board. I sold the old Voodoo Banshee card, and the old ethernet card, and the old K6-2 CPU on Ebay for about half what I payed for them the previous April. The board has been extremely stable (Linux & KDE) and the display quality is quite surprising. I use a 19" monitor and I have to run 16-bit color, though, to get a decent refresh rate.
This April, I'll another SiS all-in-one. The new ones use DDR memory and the 315 video gpu so I'm looking forward to running 24-bit color. I'll probably get $40 for the old ECS board and maybe $35 or so for the old 850 Athlon. Not bad for a years worth of computing!
Athlon-based systems really lack the kind of reliability that say a server needs...though that is mostly because of chipset problems, not the CPU itself.
Seriously, what reliability problems are there in the 760mpx? I've heard about an IO/APIC error with Linux kernels, but this is a setup problem which is solved by disabling MPS1.4 in the BIOS. Same with some gamers not being able to run Quake under Windows--solved by reverting to an earlier Nvidia driver.
But you mention reliability. Data corruption? Boards failing while in use? I don't think so, but if you'd like to point some specific issues out to me, I'd like to know.
After reading the article through, I can see how right you are. Seriously, that Xeon is a DOG. The benchmarks between this and the Athlon MP clearly show little advantage.
The only measured advantage showed up in the Linux kernel compile at j=4 where SMT gained 2 seconds out of a total of about 2 minutes for the Xeon. I've been hearing Intel make a lot of excuses about how their new technologies need 'better compilers' and 'optimized code'. Sounds more like the emperor's new clothes to me. Maybe Intel wouldn't need the 'new compilers' excuse if they kicked up the Xeon's level 1 cache up a lot more than the paltry 8k... SMT wants a lot of L1 cache IMO.
Since this is the first I've read about SMT Xeon benchmarks, I decided to run over to pricewatch to check up on the prices for the products used in the test:
I think Apple is working with the AMD Hammer series as the only reasonable future for 64-bit computing. At least that's what some of the rumor sites have alleged. I don't think it would be all that wise for Apple to port their stuff to beige boxes, but they are certainly capable of producing their own chipsets. They can ignore support of the wintel beige-box hardware architecture, yet at the same time support a 64-bit x86 CPU.
So, Apple can continue to sell their higher-priced blimpo boxes yet run with a more modern and cost effective architecture. By the time the Hammer series is available, there should be enough commercial software running on the OSX API for it to be fat-binary feasable.
Frankly, reading in the transcript about the loosly bantered charges of 'molotive cocktail', and the bag of 'fertilizer' (potting soil), 'gas can, tape and electrical wires' found in his old Toyota tells me that the prosecutor and the FBI are quite willing to lie like criminals in order to make their case.
With that caliber of slimy creeps working for and representing 'the people', no wonder they can't catch the REAL bad guys.
Woe be to the honest person who happens to run afoul of the governmet's political agenda.
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All the big boys are doing blade servers these days. Maybe in 5 years we get the Xblade?
Hmmm. let's see...
This is a GOOD thing. I'm not using Mozilla on Linux because I can't figure out how to turn off html email rendering. Have you ever seen something in your email like this?:m ain.com
http://www.spammer.com/1pixel.gif?yourname@yourdo
That's a very common way to harvest email addresses.
It has become a mess. The layoffs that are coming will seriously dampen wider economic recovery in the Tech sector, at least in No. California. But I understand that Carly and Curly get around $70 million in bonuses because of the merger. I wonder why they have such an incentive to grow their company's assets?
If you check out Storage reviews File Server Benchmark database, you'll see that the fastest ATA drive scores well below half what a 15,000 rpm Fujitsu drive does.
Aside from the million-dollar videos for MTV, all recorded music is just a facsimile of a performance. The corporate bloat that surrounds the publication of these facsimilies should go. The corporate music product is so easily reproducable that it is the best interest of the people that they close their billion-dollar doors. Any musical performer can record music and distribute it without the sleezy, expensive, racketeering, payola crooks who now act as publishers and distributors.
The sickening music publishing industry COULD raise the bar of difficulty on wholesale copying of their product if they improved it with a new 96khz and 5.1 Dolby CD product. But will they bother? Nooooooooooooooooo! Why should they? Some people in this country actually think we NEED to prop up those music-industry fsckwits.
As far as 'pirating' commercial software. Count me as one of those who could care less about such another anachronistic industry. I don't need commercial software and I don't want it either.
How did that old song go? Freedom of choice is what you've got. Freedom from choice is what you want.
Send a bill? No, you're paying for the priviledge.
All GPL and so-called 'Open' source transfers will be blocked to protect Microsoft's interoperability patents. Although GPL and so called 'Open' source was eliminated under the 2003 American Patriot and Copyright Protection Act, reports have shown that this scourge continues to proliferate in foreign lands. We will block all foreign ftp transfers to ensure that American jobs will remain secure. American jobs mean security for American citizens.
All enemy political propaganda websites, such as in the People's Republic of China, Muslim terrorists in the Middle East, Communist, Socialist, British Labor Party, all French and Dutch, and the (formerly) American Democratic Party will be blocked to ensure that Patriots do not become polluted with unsound ideals.
All unauthorized downloads from pirate, copyright-violating music sites and international file-sharing networks will be blocked as per the procedures in the American Patriot and Copyright Protection Act of 2003.
In addition, for our citizen's protection, all email received in the United States from foreign internet addresses will be checked for malicious, terrorist, or other prohibited activity to identify and aprehend enemies of the state that may be within our own borders.
The prudent approach would be to severely clean house at the top management level of the disk drive division. It's as if the thumbheads at the top don't know any better than to look further than the quarterly bottom line money figures. Sure, their disk-drive profits are probably tanking big time right now. But how can they be so stupid to not know the real reason why, or expect that the current situation must be permanent?
Absolutely nothing. But The US (and maybe Canada) is the only country so far that is stupid enough to grant software patents. At the very worst, Linux will die in the US. Can't you just see Micros**t getting the federal government to block offshore internet addresses of known Linux ftp sites? China successfully blocked unfavorable political sites to 'protect' their population, I'm sure the fat political bastards in Washington can make sure that Microsoft gets the protection they want for a few guarantee$ of future electibility.
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Kinkos has always been the best place to get software. Sure, you have to pay by the hour, but their Macs are/were equipped with zip drives, later CDR drives, but this new Firewire thing is a real boon for getting bloatware.
What I'd like to know is if the iPod can play music while you're getting your copy of Office. If Apple used Linux or Darwin in the iPod, that would be a no-braner!
Yes, I believe in God and isn't it obvious that human beings are not the end-all, be-all of this universe? We are one of millions of species of life on this tiny planet--one of billions of planets in this galaxy -- one-of-billions of galaxies. In fact, there is no religious dogma that I know of that does NOT promise an end of the world!
Our minds have given us a definite one-up on survival, thus we're overpopulating. What could be more simple?
Since this universe is ALWAYS in balance, there's no way that 6 billion animals can hide the fact that they need to deal with 6 billion stinky turds per day. There's no way that these six billion humans can each own a car. There's no room, not enough raw materials, not enough ability to create the energy necessary to run six billion autos.
What if there were only 2 billion humans? Wouldn't the world's quality of life be much better? Only 2 billion turds per day to get rid of! And wouldn't there be more of a chance that each one of those 2 billions could enjoy a better quality life? Isn't that what your God promises?
Last year I decided I was sick of 3d games, so I got a real cheap $68 ECS K7SEM all-in-one board. I sold the old Voodoo Banshee card, and the old ethernet card, and the old K6-2 CPU on Ebay for about half what I payed for them the previous April. The board has been extremely stable (Linux & KDE) and the display quality is quite surprising. I use a 19" monitor and I have to run 16-bit color, though, to get a decent refresh rate.
This April, I'll another SiS all-in-one. The new ones use DDR memory and the 315 video gpu so I'm looking forward to running 24-bit color. I'll probably get $40 for the old ECS board and maybe $35 or so for the old 850 Athlon. Not bad for a years worth of computing!
Seriously, what reliability problems are there in the 760mpx? I've heard about an IO/APIC error with Linux kernels, but this is a setup problem which is solved by disabling MPS1.4 in the BIOS. Same with some gamers not being able to run Quake under Windows--solved by reverting to an earlier Nvidia driver.
But you mention reliability. Data corruption? Boards failing while in use? I don't think so, but if you'd like to point some specific issues out to me, I'd like to know.
The only measured advantage showed up in the Linux kernel compile at j=4 where SMT gained 2 seconds out of a total of about 2 minutes for the Xeon. I've been hearing Intel make a lot of excuses about how their new technologies need 'better compilers' and 'optimized code'. Sounds more like the emperor's new clothes to me. Maybe Intel wouldn't need the 'new compilers' excuse if they kicked up the Xeon's level 1 cache up a lot more than the paltry 8k... SMT wants a lot of L1 cache IMO.
Since this is the first I've read about SMT Xeon benchmarks, I decided to run over to pricewatch to check up on the prices for the products used in the test:
Which would you use? Which would you use if you were Michael Dell? By the way, isn't IBM putting two or more cpus in one of their Power4 chips?Are you talking about the Lindows lawsuit?
So, Apple can continue to sell their higher-priced blimpo boxes yet run with a more modern and cost effective architecture. By the time the Hammer series is available, there should be enough commercial software running on the OSX API for it to be fat-binary feasable.
With that caliber of slimy creeps working for and representing 'the people', no wonder they can't catch the REAL bad guys.
Woe be to the honest person who happens to run afoul of the governmet's political agenda.