I really like my IBM T20 keyboard. They keys have a great feel and, though I was prepared to hate it, I found I like the "nub" mouse much better than touch pads.
Don't be fooled, it is not double-buffering that uses more resources but that distracting
transparency.
Yeah, transparency takes resource but so does double buffering. The difference is that double buffering reduces flicker and headaches while transparency is just eye candy.
Btw, compiling a single file java app with Project Builder is slower than compiling a
10Klines java project with Microsoft Visual J++ on a Pentium 120...
That's because you're using two diffefent compilers. One's written in Java and one in C. Try using
Jikes (open source java compiler from IBM) for speed.
We did switch and it was a good decision, with J2EE and all. But I think at the time we just considered scheme too obsure for most of our clients. Could have been other reasons too, I just don't remember.
As far as I know Reiser does not yet support root file systems (necessary for booting) but according to the story, XFS does so yes, you should be able to have a completely journaled FS.
Considering that they're not necessarily Linux advocates, I'd imagine the did that calculation *before* buying all those machines.
In any case, they'd have done it at some point along the line before the 8000th server arrived, and if they found they were making a mistake I can't see why they wouldn't have switched by now. Especially since if they thought NT would somehow be so much better they could have just removed Linux and installed NT and not have had to buy more hardware.
Sounds like Linux is working out pretty well for them.
I never realized that competition required commerce. All that time I thought my high school little league team was competing with the other schools, when really I guess we were only playing a baseball game. Boy, is my face red.
Nothing weird about white guys co-opting "black music" and becoming more popular than the people that started it, or a black athlete rising to the top in his chosen sport.
Experience Linux users know that you don't have to install every last file that comes with a distribution. It's amazing how you can take the fact that RedHat includes a lot of prebuilt binary packages that are easy to install and come up with the conclusion that this somehow makes this Linux distribution worse than Microsof Windows.
I suspect the problem is that you need to get laid.
I was paying $60/month for 768Kbps SDSL from Flashcom until they went belly up. Of course prices like this and not charging customers at all are one reason they died. Still, paying $90/month for 384Kbps after having 768Kbps for over two years seems bad to me.
That's extremely expensive for a consumer level account. Also, at least in my area, you'll only get an RADSL line sharing connection from SpeakEasy for that price, which means slow upload speed and the connection drops out when my wife uses the speaker phone. Not a great deal IMHO.
My Flashcom service was absolutely fantastic and fast, customer support was terrible, but then I almost never had to call them once the connection was up. I was luck in that I was an early subscriber in Boston and was given a SpeedStream 5250 SDSL modem so I had symmetric speeds from the get-go.
By the time they went out of business last month, I was at 768K symmetrical for $60/month, which was probably the best deal in the country, including cable if you care about upload speeds, which I really do. Unfortunately now every other option looks like crap. $50/month for RADSL @ 604/128K and it cuts out when my wife uses the speaker phone? You've got to be kidding!?!? $90/month for 144K SDSL? Ninety dollars for less than double 56K modem speeds? I think I'm going to cry!
Where in Boston can you get this service? I'm in the South End and I've never heard of it. Are you actually in the city or just outside of it? The city of Boston has a totally different cable system than the surrounding areas, and our system is *really* bad.
So over time, if you've edited a 1k text file 100 times with 100 byte changes each time, you've got 10x the original size
rather than just the previous version. Sounds like MSWord.
If you only want the previous version, you can tell CVS to work that way, set the file type to binary and it'll only keep the most recent version. But if you're using CVS for backup only, then you're probably missing the point of CVS, which from your post I'm not sure weather you get.
If we keep buying internet access with slow upstream speeds, then we're locking ourselves out of new kinds of products that may be very useful to us, now or in the future. Things like napster, offsite backup, video conferencing, games, and I'm sure many things to come. You may say that you're not interested in the categories I've mentioned, but are you sure there'll never be something you'd like to do that requires reasonable upload speeds?
I personally pick ISPs that will provide me with symmetrical or close to symmetrical bandwidth. Look, we already have TV, the internet can be much more than interactive TV, but we have to make sure the ISP provides us the righ kind of plumbing first.
I just happen to live in a house over a buried internet backbone cable. So one day I dug a hole in my basement until I got to the cable, which was about five feet down. Man, those wires were huge! About two inches in diameter each. I peeled back the insulation on the red and black pair and then just stared at those big fat tubes of shiny copper for a while. They hummed like a power transformer. Then I took a CAT-5 cable and cut off one end and attached my car jumper cables to the significant wires then wrapped up each connection really tight with duct tape. After a deep breath, I plunged those big jumper cable clips onto the backbone cables. The shock sent me flying out of the hole and left me knocked out on the floor. When I woke up, my CAT-5 cable had melted, so I had to repeat the process, only this time I had to figure out a way to water cool the cable. Well, I've got it working now and man, that connection is fast! I think I have the only water cooled internet connection in the world.
For one, it's anonymous. Second, cable boxes have been doing this sort of thing for many years, admittedly not as accurately. That's how the Neilson ratings work, mostly cable box stats.
If I can skip commercials, maybe this will somehow help keep mainstream TV free. Actually, maybe it'd be better if advertisers abandoned TV and we had to pay for it, 'cause then I wouldn't watch it at all.
I tried them, one place is called Aironet or something like that. I live in the South End, and they did come to the house to install it. It turns out the reception was too weak. I volunteered to install a "cell" on my roof, but I haven't heard back from them yet.
It sounds pretty good. 1.5Mbps symmetrical, no static IPs though. Of course you share that bandwidth with everybody in your cell. When they've got enough cells installed in the city, you're supposed to be able to get by with just a PC card, so you should be able to walk around town with your laptop, and stay connected.
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I really like my IBM T20 keyboard. They keys have a great feel and, though I was prepared to hate it, I found I like the "nub" mouse much better than touch pads.
Yeah, transparency takes resource but so does double buffering. The difference is that double buffering reduces flicker and headaches while transparency is just eye candy.
Btw, compiling a single file java app with Project Builder is slower than compiling a 10Klines java project with Microsoft Visual J++ on a Pentium 120...
That's because you're using two diffefent compilers. One's written in Java and one in C. Try using Jikes (open source java compiler from IBM) for speed.
We did switch and it was a good decision, with J2EE and all. But I think at the time we just considered scheme too obsure for most of our clients. Could have been other reasons too, I just don't remember.
It's fun when words loose their meaning, isn't it?
As far as I know Reiser does not yet support root file systems (necessary for booting) but according to the story, XFS does so yes, you should be able to have a completely journaled FS.
In any case, they'd have done it at some point along the line before the 8000th server arrived, and if they found they were making a mistake I can't see why they wouldn't have switched by now. Especially since if they thought NT would somehow be so much better they could have just removed Linux and installed NT and not have had to buy more hardware.
Sounds like Linux is working out pretty well for them.
I never realized that competition required commerce. All that time I thought my high school little league team was competing with the other schools, when really I guess we were only playing a baseball game. Boy, is my face red.
Me too, right outside my condo in the South End. I normally hate advertising of any sort, but this is pretty cool, IMHO.
I suspect the problem is that you need to get laid.
Shutup already about your fscking bandwidth willya?
What I want is a Personal PIM Manager that Manages my Personal Information!
I was paying $60/month for 768Kbps SDSL from Flashcom until they went belly up. Of course prices like this and not charging customers at all are one reason they died. Still, paying $90/month for 384Kbps after having 768Kbps for over two years seems bad to me.
Only some of these are owned by M$: http://www.passport.com/directory/default.asp
By the time they went out of business last month, I was at 768K symmetrical for $60/month, which was probably the best deal in the country, including cable if you care about upload speeds, which I really do. Unfortunately now every other option looks like crap. $50/month for RADSL @ 604/128K and it cuts out when my wife uses the speaker phone? You've got to be kidding!?!? $90/month for 144K SDSL? Ninety dollars for less than double 56K modem speeds? I think I'm going to cry!
The city of Boston does not offer this service as far as I know. If you are in Boston and you have it, let me know how you got it, please!
Where in Boston can you get this service? I'm in the South End and I've never heard of it. Are you actually in the city or just outside of it? The city of Boston has a totally different cable system than the surrounding areas, and our system is *really* bad.
I'd complain if I were you. That's pathetic.
Amen. Visual SourceSafe appeals to people who have a hard time with command lines, past that, it's terrible. CVS is so much better, and it's free.
If you only want the previous version, you can tell CVS to work that way, set the file type to binary and it'll only keep the most recent version. But if you're using CVS for backup only, then you're probably missing the point of CVS, which from your post I'm not sure weather you get.
I personally pick ISPs that will provide me with symmetrical or close to symmetrical bandwidth. Look, we already have TV, the internet can be much more than interactive TV, but we have to make sure the ISP provides us the righ kind of plumbing first.
I just happen to live in a house over a buried internet backbone cable. So one day I dug a hole in my basement until I got to the cable, which was about five feet down. Man, those wires were huge! About two inches in diameter each. I peeled back the insulation on the red and black pair and then just stared at those big fat tubes of shiny copper for a while. They hummed like a power transformer. Then I took a CAT-5 cable and cut off one end and attached my car jumper cables to the significant wires then wrapped up each connection really tight with duct tape. After a deep breath, I plunged those big jumper cable clips onto the backbone cables. The shock sent me flying out of the hole and left me knocked out on the floor. When I woke up, my CAT-5 cable had melted, so I had to repeat the process, only this time I had to figure out a way to water cool the cable. Well, I've got it working now and man, that connection is fast! I think I have the only water cooled internet connection in the world.
If I can skip commercials, maybe this will somehow help keep mainstream TV free. Actually, maybe it'd be better if advertisers abandoned TV and we had to pay for it, 'cause then I wouldn't watch it at all.
I tried them, one place is called Aironet or something like that. I live in the South End, and they did come to the house to install it. It turns out the reception was too weak. I volunteered to install a "cell" on my roof, but I haven't heard back from them yet. It sounds pretty good. 1.5Mbps symmetrical, no static IPs though. Of course you share that bandwidth with everybody in your cell. When they've got enough cells installed in the city, you're supposed to be able to get by with just a PC card, so you should be able to walk around town with your laptop, and stay connected.