Do you have proof for the claim in your.sig? Also, you *do* know that the current DTV stations will be switching to higher power transmissions after the analog stations shut down? (Some of the DTV stations will be moving channels, too.)
I disagree. It would have been better if it supported SATA2 instead of just 1, but I put 2 of them with 4GB ram each as a striped raid and the performance was literally jaw dropping,
If you could ship a functioning iram (with RAM that makes it work) to this guy and get him to report on its success, then I'd run out next month and purchase one. Until then, you're just some AC making unsubstantiated claims on/..:)
I had high hopes for the I-Ram. I was planning on buying one many years ago. I'd *really* love it if someone would manufacture a reliable RAM-based disk.
Anyway, read on. Also, wtf is up with your crazy formatting?
ON LINUX though? Yes, maybe it is "finicky",
...
In computers, stability depends largely on 2 things in hardware:
A.) Drivers
The iram is an SATA disk that uses the PCI bus for power. Gigabyte provides no drivers for the iram. (Before you argue this point, check out what "drivers" they offer on their web site.) When using PATA or SATA disks, the only driver that matters is the driver for the IDE or SATA controller. Imagine what a world of hurt we'd be in if each model of harddrive required a special driver. Thankfully, there's a single spec that you need to adhere to to have a functioning PATA or SATA drive. If the majority of Linux SATA or PATA drivers were crap, I'd imagine that we'd be seeing more broken systems -and bug reports- out there than we already do.:D
(Maybe worse also, if the user & his anecdotal evidence, is an "idiot @ the wheel driving"
This guy is a kernel hacker. (Check the CREDITS file of a recent kernel tarball.) I doubt that it's a PEBKAC issue. Others have reported on his blog that using a certain type of memory makes the iram function correctly. You could ship the right RAM to him, and ask him to try again. As I said before, I'd *love* to have a reliable verification that this thing worked. If I had one, I'd buy one next month... as a Christmas present to me... for how awsome I am!;)
Also, I personally have a CENATEK "RocketDrive"... &, I use it as I outline + for 7-8 yrs. now going strong & it's fine...
Lovely.:) It's not the iram.
CENATEK ROCKETDRIVE = PC-133 SDRAM memory, PCI 2.2 ISA bus
I could be incorrect here... maybe. You typically have a card that works in a PCI bus *OR* an ISA bus... not both. Care to clarify your statement?
AND, besides: Windows, per this article (specifically Windows 2000) does a better job of using SSD's apparently than any other OS out there...
I don't imagine that you read Alterslash? Anyway. The methods used by the folks in the article in question are questionable, at best. Check out this comment thread and this comment thread.
Um, yeah. I have some doubts about Mono. Some time this week, I'll think *really* hard about the Mono/Novell/C#/MSFT situation and come up with a real opinion. ('Cause I'd really like to use something as featureful as Beagle.)
CFLs give you more light per penny spent over the lifetime of the device. If consumers are too damn ignorant to crunch the numbers themselves, what can you do? (Other than outlawing inefficient incandescent bulbs for light-producing fixtures...)
If it's the "replace boards one-by-one, then throw away the bad one" style of "repair", then anyone can do that. *Really* repairing something by replacing *components* on a board takes quite a bit of training and knowledge.
Anyone who would label nine months of pregnancy followed by an expensive delivery a "free ride" for the woman has clearly never lived with a pregnant woman. Pregnancy puts a woman's body through the wringer and damn near incapacitates them, and at the end you either pay a ton of money for surgical removal of the baby or suffer in agony as its rips through a too-small opening to get out.
Why do economically advantaged women have more than two children?
If I post on Slashdot, I can easily track replies and I get mostly-interesting ones, making it worth registering an account and posting
I've never posted on technocrat. Is the complaint about a lack of email notification when comments are posted in a thread? If so, there are other -very vibrant- comms which use this style of posting.
and the majority of people with DSs don't need one, because they a) don't (or shouldn't) pirate, or b) don't do any of the other cool stuff you could do with an R4.
*grins*
And the majority of folks who didn't have electrical power didn't: a) stay up late at night b) keep very many perishable foodstuffs c) wash their clothes very often
Sorry that your distro didn't work with your hardware. Have you filed a bug on your distro's bugtracker? If not, please do that now. Did you receive troubleshooting instructions? If so, please follow them now. Did the instructions resolve the issue? If not, please post this new information in the bug tracker. Were you asked to file a bug somewhere else? If so, please go do so now. Sometimes your distro maintainers need to make "upstream" software providers aware of bugs. Sometimes your distro maintainers can't easily reproduce the bug and will ask you to notify the upstream provider for them. Was your bug closed with no acceptable resolution? Sorry about that. Maybe your distro maintainers suck or speak a different language than you do. Or, maybe your hardware mfgr. is making life hard for Linux driver developers. Writing a polite "Please free the specs!" letter to the mfgr. can do no harm.
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Do you have proof for the claim in your .sig?
Also, you *do* know that the current DTV stations will be switching to higher power transmissions after the analog stations shut down? (Some of the DTV stations will be moving channels, too.)
I don't need a licence to use:
* Telephones
* Public access television
* Water
* Electricity
* My bicycle (even on public roads!)
I don't think that you've thought this through.
I disagree. It would have been better if it supported SATA2 instead of just 1, but I put 2 of them with 4GB ram each as a striped raid and the performance was literally jaw dropping,
That's lovely. :)
The only reliable jaw-dropping evidence that I have of this thing's performance is its complete inability to:
1) Retain the data that has been written to it.
2) Maintain a constant throughput while randomly writing across the device.
If you could ship a functioning iram (with RAM that makes it work) to this guy and get him to report on its success, then I'd run out next month and purchase one. Until then, you're just some AC making unsubstantiated claims on /.. :)
I had high hopes for the I-Ram. I was planning on buying one many years ago. I'd *really* love it if someone would manufacture a reliable RAM-based disk.
Anyway, read on. Also, wtf is up with your crazy formatting?
ON LINUX though? Yes, maybe it is "finicky",
In computers, stability depends largely on 2 things in hardware:
A.) Drivers
The iram is an SATA disk that uses the PCI bus for power. Gigabyte provides no drivers for the iram. (Before you argue this point, check out what "drivers" they offer on their web site.) :D
When using PATA or SATA disks, the only driver that matters is the driver for the IDE or SATA controller. Imagine what a world of hurt we'd be in if each model of harddrive required a special driver. Thankfully, there's a single spec that you need to adhere to to have a functioning PATA or SATA drive.
If the majority of Linux SATA or PATA drivers were crap, I'd imagine that we'd be seeing more broken systems -and bug reports- out there than we already do.
(Maybe worse also, if the user & his anecdotal evidence, is an "idiot @ the wheel driving"
This guy is a kernel hacker. (Check the CREDITS file of a recent kernel tarball.) I doubt that it's a PEBKAC issue. Others have reported on his blog that using a certain type of memory makes the iram function correctly. You could ship the right RAM to him, and ask him to try again. ;)
As I said before, I'd *love* to have a reliable verification that this thing worked. If I had one, I'd buy one next month... as a Christmas present to me... for how awsome I am!
Also, I personally have a CENATEK "RocketDrive"... &, I use it as I outline + for 7-8 yrs. now going strong & it's fine...
Lovely. :) It's not the iram.
CENATEK ROCKETDRIVE = PC-133 SDRAM memory, PCI 2.2 ISA bus
I could be incorrect here... maybe. You typically have a card that works in a PCI bus *OR* an ISA bus... not both. Care to clarify your statement?
AND, besides: Windows, per this article (specifically Windows 2000) does a better job of using SSD's apparently than any other OS out there...
I don't imagine that you read Alterslash?
Anyway. The methods used by the folks in the article in question are questionable, at best. Check out this comment thread and this comment thread.
BEAGLE USES MONO!!!1111 EEEVIL!!!111
Um, yeah. I have some doubts about Mono. Some time this week, I'll think *really* hard about the Mono/Novell/C#/MSFT situation and come up with a real opinion. ('Cause I'd really like to use something as featureful as Beagle.)
*shrug*
CFLs give you more light per penny spent over the lifetime of the device. If consumers are too damn ignorant to crunch the numbers themselves, what can you do? (Other than outlawing inefficient incandescent bulbs for light-producing fixtures...)
Big 10-4. *I* understood what you were saying. Your dad sounds like a wise fellow.
I was hoping that Mr. AC upthread would come back and think about what he said. : /
And why don't you do daily full onsite backups? Sounds like you'd save a ton in shipping costs and software complexity!
NB: NOT SERIOUS.
Meh. We're starting *much* more software now than we were fifteen years ago, boss. (Not that most folks are doing anything with that software...)
It'd be a better comparison if we were asking how long it took a mainframe from fifteen years ago to boot up.
"Wow. Seriously.
The i-RAM is in another league in IOMeter...
Heh. The i-RAM is a finicky chunk of trash.
http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/89113.html
What sort of "PC Repair" are we talking about?
If it's the "replace boards one-by-one, then throw away the bad one" style of "repair", then anyone can do that.
*Really* repairing something by replacing *components* on a board takes quite a bit of training and knowledge.
Have the networked swipe card security system send a WOL to your computer
*dies laughing*
Where the hell do *you* work?!
When was the last botnet herder convicted of anything? It will never happen.
Heh. I think that you've missed something.
Most of those folks are out of the country. (Which country? Most *any* country.)
Anyone who would label nine months of pregnancy followed by an expensive delivery a "free ride" for the woman has clearly never lived with a pregnant woman. Pregnancy puts a woman's body through the wringer and damn near incapacitates them, and at the end you either pay a ton of money for surgical removal of the baby or suffer in agony as its rips through a too-small opening to get out.
Why do economically advantaged women have more than two children?
If I post on Slashdot, I can easily track replies and I get mostly-interesting ones, making it worth registering an account and posting
I've never posted on technocrat. Is the complaint about a lack of email notification when comments are posted in a thread? If so, there are other -very vibrant- comms which use this style of posting.
and the majority of people with DSs don't need one, because they a) don't (or shouldn't) pirate, or b) don't do any of the other cool stuff you could do with an R4.
*grins*
And the majority of folks who didn't have electrical power didn't:
a) stay up late at night
b) keep very many perishable foodstuffs
c) wash their clothes very often
*shrug*
Sorry that your distro didn't work with your hardware.
Have you filed a bug on your distro's bugtracker? If not, please do that now.
Did you receive troubleshooting instructions? If so, please follow them now.
Did the instructions resolve the issue? If not, please post this new information in the bug tracker.
Were you asked to file a bug somewhere else? If so, please go do so now. Sometimes your distro maintainers need to make "upstream" software providers aware of bugs. Sometimes your distro maintainers can't easily reproduce the bug and will ask you to notify the upstream provider for them.
Was your bug closed with no acceptable resolution? Sorry about that. Maybe your distro maintainers suck or speak a different language than you do. Or, maybe your hardware mfgr. is making life hard for Linux driver developers. Writing a polite "Please free the specs!" letter to the mfgr. can do no harm.
*sigh*
Your "extract the firmware from the Windows drivers" plan is a really bad idea.
A better idea is to not use wifi hardware that doesn't work with a free driver.
I suppose that you've already seen this?
http://www.mondodesigno.com/linux/cf41.html
*nods*
MSFT isn't the first place that I'd go.
I was *quite* pleased with my copy of Sam's "C++ In 21 Days", DJGPP, and EDIT.
Hell, while we're here, why not talk about Squeak? It has an absolutely *KILLER* IDE, is cross-platform, and is free and unencumbered. :D
Um...
Delphi?
*blink*
I don't have a Windows box to test on so....
This generates a "Privileged Instruction" error, followed by triggering a hardware breakpoint?
*snerk*
This is the best thing that I've read all day! Thanks for the laughs!
In fact, I'm pretty sure "Time-Wasting" and "Self-Righteous Ignorance" are required courses in most teacher-training programs.
Heh. You forgot about the one-semester course on "How To Use The Overhead Projector".
Meh. We all know that kdawson needs to be drug out behind the woodshed and shot.
Given this knowledge, *you* are doubly clueless to have relied in his summary! ;)