If you are right that IT spending is falling fast than Duron, Cyrix and the low end transmeta are going to be looked at. For purely financial reasons. Some companies have finally started cownting and considering does it really worth for the department secretary to use a 1GHz PIII.
Ok, here is the story:
I ran through lots of tests including a full debian install on a Crusoe Vaio. It ran very well (twice faster than the older PII model) and had no problems besides X (I could not get this running and sony deserves all the flak it can get for the display in the new Vaio).
A the same time it could not install RedHat, recent SuSe (old Suse installs fine, upgrade is also fine) and Mandrake. In all cases it hanged on the initializing swap the first time. Which definitely shows a problem. Either in the CPU virtual addressing or in the peripherals.
It is not just crusoe that is new in the machines. Crusoe is accompanied by a north bridge and new peripheral chips. As most of the machines released so far are subnotebooks these are not standard and IMHO buggy.
I am not saying that crusoe itself may not have bugs but from what I saw so far bugs in the north bridge (which unfortunately is on the same chip with Crusoe) and/or south bridge/peripherals are more likely.
Speaking from my own experience from these parts of the world (though not exactly in the same country):
This means that the treasury officer did not get his monthly share under the table.
If he could he could have assigned the biggest fine possible. Just in case he is not forgotten the next time. He has kidz to feed ya know.
Intel has delayed the P4 chip for
"re-structuring."
Bollocks, Intel has now released the chip. Officially. Game is over. And yes, at the same frequency Athlon beats the s**t out of it. So as long as Athlon manages to climb up to 1.7 P4 will be unable to beat it.
This of course does not mean that P4 will not sell. It will. And it will sell like hell. And the fact that it is more expensive does not matter either. Corporate IT is usually ruled by irrational mathematics and the cost and performance are a factor that is inferior to other more "important" ones.
Intel usually targets new systems at servers. That way they can charge thousands for the new chips.
How will that work if SMP is not available for several months?
It will not. I mean NOT AT ALL. No servers. Nada. Non. The reason is very simple - server also means lots of RAM. And there is no non-RDRAM solution for P4 currently available. The average server currently ships with at least 0.5G RAM, usually 1G or 2G (for those brave or stupid to run Intel on a 32 bit system in non-flat mode). The price tag on such RDRAM system puts P4 outside of the server market completely for now.
And IMHO this is the reason for Intel strange behaviour and trying to bail out of the RDRAM obligations. They got their marketing onto completely new grounds (no server release to show off and the much thinner profit margins) where they do not feel comfortable.
This means that actually you can make money off your kidz going to college instead of them eating all your money. Good point, wouldn't have thought of this one myself.
Pinging was used to gain publicity. So that they can "explain" how they got the information. If they did not get the assistance of every LIR around the globe they would have had to steal RIPE, ARIN and APNIC data.
And this means IP address space revokation. Forever. This company is going off the net. Unstopable and irrevokable.
AOL uses some location specific dial pools. So quite a lot of the AOL users can actually be traced to a region.
What concerns me more is that such an effort is impossible without using registry information. IMHO the entire scanning was just noise and verification. For all practical purposes they were not able to build anything without using RIPE, ARIN and APNIC.
All of these have extremely strict policies on such activities and this company if their database is accurate will disappear very soon. Because guess what, I am going to rat. And I am not the only one.
That is besides the fact that the quantity of compressed air necessary for a day of driving is one nice small bomb.
The fact that this one has no fuel to burn does not mean that the other ones don't. So just when you have thought that the crash flames from the petroleum driven ones have subsided the great pneumatic wonder goes booom and there is a nice crater in the road.
You do not walk out of the door. If you do, they can sue you for misconduct and than you should give the key to the police which will lawfully request it as a part of the investigation. If you refuse to do so it is 2 years in jail.
If you are porviding business mail hosting as some UK ISPs do you must brace yourselves to be ready to order such service.
In both technical and moral terms.
The employer is entitled to read the business mail of its employees.
This is valid only for hosted business email though. Not for personal.
Irrellevant. It's UK. The RIP bill actually specifies that taking measures to intervene with decryption for monitoring purposes is a crime. If you are asked for your keys you must hand them off.
You forgot that advances in technology are now also applied to advances in management. So engineers instead of doing their jobs are making sure their KPIs are right, progress reports are on time and their meetings booked in MS Outlook. Do not expect the newer version to be more stable and more durable than the old one. These times are long gone. And it is really really sad.
This is specialized hardware. NASA used to have similar beasts with 2^16 16 bit ALUs for satellite image processing. Not on one chip of course. On multiple.
Most of people with Palms hardly use the PDAs for something more complicated than schedule keeping and notes taking. This limits the public to geeky mgmt types (yes I know there are companies that have fully blown ordering systems running on a palm, but they are exemptions, not rules).
Putting linux on a PDA as long it works with M$ outlook, Lotus Notes and/or OpenMail covers the same market as well as the people who do on site repairs, remote maintenance, network management.
I do not have a PDA and I will not buy one until I can do usefull stuff with it - namely have a proper network stack and a proper set of tools to do my job (i.e. fix networks and applications). So until I see a PDA with a PCMCIA slot or anything similar where I can stick an ether and/or a wireless lan I will drag my laptop with me.
Obviously, I would prefer to have something that fits in a pocket and does the same job.
So it is not a matter of being open, it is neither because you can. The reason is that it will be a dream tool for lots of geeky jobs (as well as have its classic functions).
The management is really where Joe Shmoe CPU and Storage is.
And the idea of revolutionary blah blah blah - reinventing the terminal is not bad. Terminals used to have printers, tablettes, digital input and lots of other stuff. Take a look at an old Textronics catalogue for examples.
So all the stuff is well known. Just the speeds are new.
1. Have you managed solaris? Have you developed for solaris? Have you run solaris? Looks like you have not...
2. The biggest problem of RedHat is QA. Quality assurance. They have tons of bugs all the time. As Sparc is the only BigEndian RedHat platform (alpha is little endian under linux) it will be the first one to bite the bullet if someone in redhat's management looks towards decreasing bug fix tunraround times and improving QA. It is the obvious decision, but it is wrong. Guess why... Because auditing for endianness bugs gives an additional run on general bugs and solves them.
3. And another important factor is that there are very few people that will have both Sun kit and low bandwidth lines. Most of them do not pay for CDs. They do not need to. They can download an entire distro while going for a coffee break.
The only drug a programmer needs is an after-hours therapeutic dose of popular suspensions of Sacharomices Cerevisia in highly diluted extract of barley in ethanol. Usually also known as beer if it comes from somewhere close to Prague or Butt, horsePiss, etc if the origin is a country that allows beer to be spoiled by putting rice in it. Or by filtering it instead of letting it settle (no wonder Taco drinks wiskey).
Drugs and programming do not mix. A programmer needs a brain that thinks clearly and logically. As well as some therapy to relieve stress from time to time.
So there is a great level of difference between Wall Street and programming. I have yet to see a programmer with a successful career using testosterone creme or hard fuel. The article is complete B.S.
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He can and he should. A big one.
Welcome to the world of Microsoft my dear.
;-(
When they do shit like this it is only to make you buy something.
MS has released a network licence manager recently. So I guess you will just have to go an buy it
You contradict to yourself.
If you are right that IT spending is falling fast than Duron, Cyrix and the low end transmeta are going to be looked at. For purely financial reasons. Some companies have finally started cownting and considering does it really worth for the department secretary to use a 1GHz PIII.
And know what - I am happy to see that.
It is not funny.
It is insightful. It is more or les true when it comes to gov institutions anywhere around the globe...
Pity I am out of mod points.
Ok, here is the story:
I ran through lots of tests including a full debian install on a Crusoe Vaio. It ran very well (twice faster than the older PII model) and had no problems besides X (I could not get this running and sony deserves all the flak it can get for the display in the new Vaio).
A the same time it could not install RedHat, recent SuSe (old Suse installs fine, upgrade is also fine) and Mandrake. In all cases it hanged on the initializing swap the first time. Which definitely shows a problem. Either in the CPU virtual addressing or in the peripherals.
It is not just crusoe that is new in the machines. Crusoe is accompanied by a north bridge and new peripheral chips. As most of the machines released so far are subnotebooks these are not standard and IMHO buggy.
I am not saying that crusoe itself may not have bugs but from what I saw so far bugs in the north bridge (which unfortunately is on the same chip with Crusoe) and/or south bridge/peripherals are more likely.
Speaking from my own experience from these parts of the world (though not exactly in the same country): This means that the treasury officer did not get his monthly share under the table. If he could he could have assigned the biggest fine possible. Just in case he is not forgotten the next time. He has kidz to feed ya know.
Bollocks, Intel has now released the chip. Officially. Game is over. And yes, at the same frequency Athlon beats the s**t out of it. So as long as Athlon manages to climb up to 1.7 P4 will be unable to beat it.
This of course does not mean that P4 will not sell. It will. And it will sell like hell. And the fact that it is more expensive does not matter either. Corporate IT is usually ruled by irrational mathematics and the cost and performance are a factor that is inferior to other more "important" ones.
It will not. I mean NOT AT ALL. No servers. Nada. Non. The reason is very simple - server also means lots of RAM. And there is no non-RDRAM solution for P4 currently available. The average server currently ships with at least 0.5G RAM, usually 1G or 2G (for those brave or stupid to run Intel on a 32 bit system in non-flat mode). The price tag on such RDRAM system puts P4 outside of the server market completely for now.
And IMHO this is the reason for Intel strange behaviour and trying to bail out of the RDRAM obligations. They got their marketing onto completely new grounds (no server release to show off and the much thinner profit margins) where they do not feel comfortable.
That is a brilliant idea.
This means that actually you can make money off your kidz going to college instead of them eating all your money. Good point, wouldn't have thought of this one myself.
Pinging was used to gain publicity. So that they can "explain" how they got the information. If they did not get the assistance of every LIR around the globe they would have had to steal RIPE, ARIN and APNIC data.
And this means IP address space revokation. Forever. This company is going off the net. Unstopable and irrevokable.
AOL uses some location specific dial pools. So quite a lot of the AOL users can actually be traced to a region.
What concerns me more is that such an effort is impossible without using registry information. IMHO the entire scanning was just noise and verification. For all practical purposes they were not able to build anything without using RIPE, ARIN and APNIC.
All of these have extremely strict policies on such activities and this company if their database is accurate will disappear very soon. Because guess what, I am going to rat. And I am not the only one.
That is besides the fact that the quantity of compressed air necessary for a day of driving is one nice small bomb.
The fact that this one has no fuel to burn does not mean that the other ones don't. So just when you have thought that the crash flames from the petroleum driven ones have subsided the great pneumatic wonder goes booom and there is a nice crater in the road.
Minor correction.
You do not walk out of the door. If you do, they can sue you for misconduct and than you should give the key to the police which will lawfully request it as a part of the investigation. If you refuse to do so it is 2 years in jail.
That is what RIP is all about.
Clockwork Orange and 1984 all the way.
If you are porviding business mail hosting as some UK ISPs do you must brace yourselves to be ready to order such service. In both technical and moral terms. The employer is entitled to read the business mail of its employees. This is valid only for hosted business email though. Not for personal.
Irrellevant. It's UK. The RIP bill actually specifies that taking measures to intervene with decryption for monitoring purposes is a crime. If you are asked for your keys you must hand them off.
See subj:
You forgot that advances in technology are now also applied to advances in management. So engineers instead of doing their jobs are making sure their KPIs are right, progress reports are on time and their meetings booked in MS Outlook. Do not expect the newer version to be more stable and more durable than the old one. These times are long gone. And it is really really sad.
This is specialized hardware. NASA used to have similar beasts with 2^16 16 bit ALUs for satellite image processing. Not on one chip of course. On multiple.
I have doubts that it will ever get to run linux or BSD. I mean cisco buing the entire outfit. And I consider it to be highly probable.
Guess what will be next cisco aquisition.
Cisco IOS has run on MIPS32 for ages, I see no problems for them making it run on MIPS64.
This just looks like the next CPU for a cisco line card. If foundry, intel, juniper or any of the other sharks in the pond will not eat it first.
That is if this is not vapourware.
OK, counterpoint:
Most of people with Palms hardly use the PDAs for something more complicated than schedule keeping and notes taking. This limits the public to geeky mgmt types (yes I know there are companies that have fully blown ordering systems running on a palm, but they are exemptions, not rules).
Putting linux on a PDA as long it works with M$ outlook, Lotus Notes and/or OpenMail covers the same market as well as the people who do on site repairs, remote maintenance, network management.
I do not have a PDA and I will not buy one until I can do usefull stuff with it - namely have a proper network stack and a proper set of tools to do my job (i.e. fix networks and applications). So until I see a PDA with a PCMCIA slot or anything similar where I can stick an ether and/or a wireless lan I will drag my laptop with me.
Obviously, I would prefer to have something that fits in a pocket and does the same job.
So it is not a matter of being open, it is neither because you can. The reason is that it will be a dream tool for lots of geeky jobs (as well as have its classic functions).
It is not one PCI backplane. It is a PCI extender. Converting PCI into network.
Sound, Video, Other Joe Shmoe Lovelies.
The management is really where Joe Shmoe CPU and Storage is.
And the idea of revolutionary blah blah blah - reinventing the terminal is not bad. Terminals used to have printers, tablettes, digital input and lots of other stuff. Take a look at an old Textronics catalogue for examples.
So all the stuff is well known. Just the speeds are new.
1. Have you managed solaris? Have you developed for solaris? Have you run solaris? Looks like you have not...
2. The biggest problem of RedHat is QA. Quality assurance. They have tons of bugs all the time. As Sparc is the only BigEndian RedHat platform (alpha is little endian under linux) it will be the first one to bite the bullet if someone in redhat's management looks towards decreasing bug fix tunraround times and improving QA. It is the obvious decision, but it is wrong. Guess why... Because auditing for endianness bugs gives an additional run on general bugs and solves them.
3. And another important factor is that there are very few people that will have both Sun kit and low bandwidth lines. Most of them do not pay for CDs. They do not need to. They can download an entire distro while going for a coffee break.
The only drug a programmer needs is an after-hours therapeutic dose of popular suspensions of Sacharomices Cerevisia in highly diluted extract of barley in ethanol. Usually also known as beer if it comes from somewhere close to Prague or Butt, horsePiss, etc if the origin is a country that allows beer to be spoiled by putting rice in it. Or by filtering it instead of letting it settle (no wonder Taco drinks wiskey).
Drugs and programming do not mix. A programmer needs a brain that thinks clearly and logically. As well as some therapy to relieve stress from time to time.
So there is a great level of difference between Wall Street and programming. I have yet to see a programmer with a successful career using testosterone creme or hard fuel. The article is complete B.S.