There are two main sticking points: Lotus Notes and Web base tools that work only with IE.
They have not dedicated any resources towards getting the first work natively and the goatse.cx called Wine is not a solution. It is a workaround until the solution is there. At least for an IBM application such as Lotus Notes. And with the investment into LN for an organization of their size switching away from LN (if there was anything to switch to) is not an option.
They have not dedicated any resources towards making their tools work with multiple browsers.
Why should they expect that it will just work then?
To add to that especially as far as the LN is concerned they are being outright idiotic. The abcense of an LN client is what prevents the rollout in many large corps which are not entirely locked into MSFT. If they want to sell Linux they should actually bite the bullet and remove one of the main sticking points to selling it into a large enterprise instead of talking marketing bullshit.
Basically, they should put their money where their mouth is.
Depends which disease and which vaccine are you talking about. Many are known to be ineffective, but are used for the exact reason that their massive use decreases the pool of disease carriers. As a result despite the fact that 20% of the vaccinated are still vulnerable (that is for VZV), it is still used because the massive vaccination decreases the chance that people in the 20% will get it.
An important note - you actually have to perform a continuous vaccination campaign. Sometimes for 10s of years for it to have an effect. Not a one-off 750million PR exercise.
The relevant royalties and software for a GSM phone are around 25-30$ if not more. CDMA is comparable. 3G is more.
With so much invested in IP a dollar or so for an additional hardware feature does not really make a difference and quite often a more powerfull CPU ends up being cheaper nowdays. One of the biggest expenses is R&D. Using more powerfull hardware brings a decrease in R&D costs.
To add to that quite often the development goes on a load with all features in. As a result, a phone using new hardware without some features is a less tested system then the phone with the features.
Overall the economics are non-trivial. Quite often a phone which has less features based on less powerfull hardware ends up being more expensive.
1. There is no point in vaccinating only sections of the population. A few years later the disease is back. There are precedents where it is worse then before. 1960-es Asia strains of smallpox were infecting people who have been vaccinated with some of the vaccine varieties so they had to be revaccinated with the new generation of vaccines.
2. There is a precedent where the industrialised countries pooled all of their resources through the WHO and eradicated a disease. Smallpox. The money involved if converted to modern prices was more than the billigatus grand gesture and it was not a piecemeal one-off PR exercise. The eradication of smallpox involved several new vaccine strains, blanket vaccinations of entire countries, maintaining vaccination programmes and missions for 10+ years in a country. It was a coordinated effort that lasted nearly 20 years. And succeeded.
3. There are a number of projects like the smallpox one that can be completed with under 500 million. Eradication of polio is a prime example. There are a few others. Burning 750 millions for PR purposes does not strike me like something particularly usefull compared to giving 75 million to any of these projects. This of course will mean that the Billigatus will have to assume that someone else will actually decide how the money is to be used which is something his foundation has so far disallowed.
I can continue ad naseum but this is yet another billigatus PR exercise. In fact most of the efforts nowdays are like this. Noone wants to give money to something that will run for 20 years or more but may solve the problem once and for all.
Anyway, on subject. Who cares about yet another piece of PR shit. Using the American vaccine pricing 750 million will just about vaccinate 1-2 central African countries with the standard kids vaccines + essential tropical ones. Once. It is a drop in the ocean. Even if the vaccines are priced sanely it is still a drop in the ocean. It will take the vaccines to be priced at manufacturing cost and manufactured in the 3rd world for this money to be barely enough to vaccinate just central Africa leaving central American and Asian kids to die.
Off the top of my head. These are approximate prices and they are likely to vary per market up to several times. They are also one-shot prices so if you are running a campaign and buying bulk you may get better pricing (not by much for some of the vaccines).
Standard course of childhood vaccinations is above 200$ as per US prices. Under standard I mean MMR, VZV, Polio, TB, that cough thing, Diphteritis, the strain of the meningococcus that has a vaccine for it and a few minor items. If you add the tropical ones like Cholera, Yellow Fever, etc you are going to add 100-200 more.
The developed countries have vaccination programs already so we should be looking only at the ones who need it and nearly all of them are tropical. So 750 million by 400 makes around 2 million. That is less then the children in 2-3 African countries. Even if we manage to get a 10 times volume discount we are still looking at less then half of Central Africa.
Typical billigatus foundation PR exercise. Same as the Indian fight AIDS campaign and a few others. I guess some people never change.
Standard RTP jitter using proper testing gear measured during evening hours (residential peak time).
90% 3ms or under. Did not try to fit it to poisson, but it did look like a pretty good fit. The upward hump which you see on congested networks was definitely missing. Basically no congestion, equipment based jitter only.
It depends what are you called. There is a large number of UK agencies where you have to be called appropriately. John Smith or Vinod Patel usually does nicely. If you are called something inappropriate which sounds Polish, French or god forbid eastern European you have no chance in getting a responce whatsoever.
So here is what I usually do: if I do not get a responce from a place on more then 5 applications I also send a revised version of my CV with a fake Indian or British name (a random permutation of names from lackluster UK soaps usually does nicely).
If I get an immediate responce I start filtering the place out from any further job searches (no point applying if they will discriminate based on your name anyway).
The approach is not scientific as there is not enough data for a proper statistics, but it is helpfull enough. Saves _loads_ of time and frustration.
Two dedicated VOIP operators - Gossip Telecom and one more which specializes in businesses and offers IP Centrex style solutions (fully outsourced VOIP PBX). These are dependant on your link so your mileage is likely to vary. Also at least some ISPs have started offering VOIP as an addon at a minimal cost. Once again, mileage will vary except possibly Nildram. Speaking out of experience (done some measurements on their network and have a non-UK VOIP phone on it): they have nearly 0% packet loss (around 0.01% which is the loss from DSL) and under 3ms jitter. Even the shitties VOIP implementation just works. Of course this does not come out of the blue. They charge you 25 monthly for a static IP with the relevant services attached while the industry average is around 23.
You have not read it. It will be on a specific class of tasks. It is similar to modern GPUs. They are faster then 10 opterons on a specific task.
Back to the article. The guy seems to understand hardware, but he does not understand shit about software. Once he got past the first 3 parts he started babbling. Linux on cell, so on, so fourth. If he just read his previous parts he should have hit himself on the head. The only type of linux this can run is mcLinux. There is no memory protection as such. So no Linux, no Windows past 2000, no MacOS past X, so on so fourth.
Similarly, it is all nice and well about cell software beasties making herds by themselves and cooperating on a task. I am going to be a spoilsport and ask a nasty question: Err.. What about a security model? Memory protection? Privilege model for communications? So on so fourth...
To continue on this, the power of a modern general purpose OS is the task switching. How long does it take to load and store the context of the vector processing units? Doing so requires moving their dedicated memory to main memory. This will take ages.
Overall, this is a design similar to Cray 1 initial design. Cray initial design smashed the IBM, DEC (and lesser fish) monopoly on big computing iron to bits. Unfortunately the next thing the people buying the Cray asked for was "can we share this resource between two people?". The answer was provided eventually, but by the time Cray could do all the nifty time sharing and memory management tricks necessary to do this its advantage was no longer phenomenal. And all people who could use Crays for single tasks with manual scheduling actually continued to use it that way. But it did not even dent the general purpose big iron market.
From the perspective of a vendor making a small embedded device whose success is dependant on time-to-market open source is quite often a very expensive proposition. 95% of the stuff on the market is in fact broken hardware fixed by a quick and ugly fixes in software. It was done this way because the budget and the delivery schedules did not allow fixing the hardware properly. Do you thing that the vendors would like to have the breakage documented, well known and available to the average luser doing a google for it? Of course not.
Yes. 2.6 is definitely considerably faster (typing this on a Lex running 2.6.9 at the moment).
In either case make sure to build a custom kernel. Most distros do not ship a MTRR enabled kernel for C3 which results in the video working considerably slower then it can.
No, This is Sun marketing and project management choice. They are looking at OO as a part of their desktop solution. A different OO will increase their training costs, muddy the overall message and most importantly increase the sales of a CPU that is in the servers of their main competitor.
When Sun is making a decision you can always count on the following: they will make the decision regardless of technical or financial merit if the words IBM are involved anywhere. In that case it will be whatever the anti-IBM decision will be. It is part of the company culture (just ask any old time Sun staffer anything about IBM and watch).
IR shielding on more expensive glass does it already. Painting the doors is also a bloody good idea and I have alluminized floor underlay already (saves you up to 20-30% of heat loss through the floor). T
Actually, they are marketing it the wrong way. They are marketing it as means of signal not getting out. I think the case of signal not getting in is considerably more interesting.
Which leads to the nice and obvious results. The idiot neigbour with the new and flashy access point he got for Xmas is no longer interfering with your wireless.
While at it, alluminium laced paints are usually highly combustible. What is the fire safety rating of this stuff?
Teenagers will not take this one. Too bland sluggish and weak for their taste. Speaking out of experience as I have one in the house and quite a few in the office (circa 20-30).
The PC on the picture is LeX. http://www.lex.com.tw/. It exists in 2 major incarnations - 533 MHz C3 and 800 MHz C3. The first is fully passive cooling, the second is fanned. Both incarnations have subvariants with 1-3 10/100 Realtek or 10/10/1000 Intel Ethernets.
Video is Cyberblade with shared RAM, audio and on-board chipset is Via. There is 3", 2", CF and disk on chip connector on board. The standard disk is a 2". Can take up to 512MB 133 SDRAM using a single low profile DIMM. DC to DC convertor on board, external 12V DC power supply.
The 3 interface variety make very good firewalls and routers.
The price quoted on the website is barely just above what Lex charges for the 533 with a minimal disk or flash and minimal RAM. This means that it is running either Linux or QNX.
The systems are nice, but I would not recommend them for use in anything but a dedicated server/system or a diskless terminal.
The reasons for this are:
Bad cooling especially on the 533. If you add a disk the heat generation in the case is nearly always above the thermal throttle threshold. This makes the machine go sluggish even with minimal use.
The video is quite sluggish and if pushed to higher frequencies takes a lot of the system memory bandwidth.
As far as spec is concerned the Lex is a very advanced typewriter with a reasonable audio (all proper mini-ITX VIA motherboards have a better one). It crawls when used under Linux 2.4, 2.6 is passable but still slow. BSD 5.x is quite good as it seems to take advantage of the thermal throttle in a better way. Windoze is barely standable. It should also run QNX and a few other suspects.
So whom did they copy a superscalar design based on x86 over risc emulation from in 1995? Can we all know this mistery company?
My guess is that whatever they did U5 was not going to be more then a few percent of their turnover. In those days UMC was the one of the biggest cheap chip foundries (bigger then TSMC is now in market share terms) and if Intel managed to get a injunction on their other products that would have really hurt them.
Will not work with a Via C3 600 Mhz Eden. Standard M motherboard by the look of it. I use them for servers and test kit (have 20-30 around the office, the house and various installations for friends).
Whatever you do the CPU will stay at under 32C in a 1U server, 29C in a normal case. The moment it gets warmer then 40C it starts throttling down (without your intervention, you cannot do anything about it). Practically impossible to fry as long as it has at leas something resembling heatsink on top.
While on the subject, 10 years ago I used to have an AMD 386 DX motherboard screwed directly onto the desk. The CPU was just the right temperature to keep a jezve with turkish coffee or a small expresso cup warm. Worked a treat and I am still amazed that we did not spill a single drop of coffee on top of it in nearly a year.
I hate to sound like Victor Meldrew, but I seriously dislike the way 2.6 is going. It should have settled by now, but instead of that you see major changes to scheduler, network drivers in every changelog. The only thing that is being left alone for now is the VM (thanks god for that).
While I have to admit that none of them is anything as scary as some of the stuff that happened to 2.4 around 2.4.7-2.4.13 when the VM got changed, it is not right.
The supposedly ready and released kernel 2.6 by now from minor version 0 to minor version 10 has had its entire ethertool interface changed at least twice, the process scheduler changed at least once, the IO scheduler changed at least once, it still does not support things that 2.4 used to support in the USB subsystem (anyone running a scanner on it raise your hand). Shall I continue?
In btw, does anyone know of any place on the network where you can view the changelog split by subsystem/kernel tree directory? It is 1.5 on the average (so much for "stable" kernel) between minor version and it is getting quite hard to read.
The lack of breakthrough will be due to something entirely different.
So far we have been exploiting the fruits of fundamental material science, physics and chemistry research done in the 60-es (if not earlier), 70-es and to a small extent in the 80-es. There has been nothing fundamentally new done in the 90-es. A lot of nice engineering - yes. A lot of clever manufacturing techniques silicon of insulator being a prime example - yes. But nothing as far as the underlying science is concerned.
This is not just the semiconductor industry. The situation is the same across the board. The charitable foundations and the state which used to be the prime source of fundamental research funding now require a project plan and a date when the supposed product will deliver a result (thinly disguised words for profit). They also do not invest into projects longer then 3 years.
As a result noone looks at things that may bring a breakthrough and there shall be no breakthroughs until this situation changes
This means that you do not understand the meaning of java as far as Sun marketing strategy is concerned.
Java as far as Sun is concerned is a method of pushing a large number of customers onto Sun's native *sparc/Solaris platform and the associated software and support contract. The only reason for the existence of ports to other platforms is to bait people into switching.
It is the only platform with first tier support and the only platform whose scheduler is continuously updated and optimised specifically to match the Java current threading model.
Java is a big-endinan platform. All internal data representations must be big endian (this is in the standard) and execution on any small endian platform like x86 will always incur a performance penalty. This is similar to what MSFT is doing with.NET. It is specified as little endian for the exact same reason.
And if performance fails to help the fledging sales (Sun is having a really bad quarter), licensing comes to the rescue.
Intel implied that they have copied their CPU design illegally.
All others with x86 clones have licenses for 286 and/or 386. IIRC the licensees are IIT, Harris, AMD and Cyrix. UMC never licensed the instruction set.
IANAL so I am not sure to what extent did Intel intellectual property cover 486. P4 is clearly protected by patents and requires a license to copy the bus design and the SSE instructions. P3 is not as far as its bus is concerned. I have no idea about the instruction set for P3 or earlier.
Anyway, to the extent of my knowledge UMC did not really put up a fight and gave up more or less quietly.
All I can say that now I am even more inclined to think that a significant proportion of the jets in the US airspace has had missile warning systems installed. Most of these have a component which detects laser illumination at the more popular wavelengths because it is used for distance/speed measurement in the newer missile launchers.
This is the only way someone could have noticed that some idiot is shining a laser pointer. At 500+ mph there is simply no way for the dot to stay long enough in one place for someone to notice.
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And they will fail.
There are two main sticking points: Lotus Notes and Web base tools that work only with IE.
They have not dedicated any resources towards getting the first work natively and the goatse.cx called Wine is not a solution. It is a workaround until the solution is there. At least for an IBM application such as Lotus Notes. And with the investment into LN for an organization of their size switching away from LN (if there was anything to switch to) is not an option.
They have not dedicated any resources towards making their tools work with multiple browsers.
Why should they expect that it will just work then?
To add to that especially as far as the LN is concerned they are being outright idiotic. The abcense of an LN client is what prevents the rollout in many large corps which are not entirely locked into MSFT. If they want to sell Linux they should actually bite the bullet and remove one of the main sticking points to selling it into a large enterprise instead of talking marketing bullshit.
Basically, they should put their money where their mouth is.
Depends which disease and which vaccine are you talking about. Many are known to be ineffective, but are used for the exact reason that their massive use decreases the pool of disease carriers. As a result despite the fact that 20% of the vaccinated are still vulnerable (that is for VZV), it is still used because the massive vaccination decreases the chance that people in the 20% will get it.
An important note - you actually have to perform a continuous vaccination campaign. Sometimes for 10s of years for it to have an effect. Not a one-off 750million PR exercise.
I doubt that it is going to lower any prices.
The relevant royalties and software for a GSM phone are around 25-30$ if not more. CDMA is comparable. 3G is more.
With so much invested in IP a dollar or so for an additional hardware feature does not really make a difference and quite often a more powerfull CPU ends up being cheaper nowdays. One of the biggest expenses is R&D. Using more powerfull hardware brings a decrease in R&D costs.
To add to that quite often the development goes on a load with all features in. As a result, a phone using new hardware without some features is a less tested system then the phone with the features.
Overall the economics are non-trivial. Quite often a phone which has less features based on less powerfull hardware ends up being more expensive.
1. There is no point in vaccinating only sections of the population. A few years later the disease is back. There are precedents where it is worse then before. 1960-es Asia strains of smallpox were infecting people who have been vaccinated with some of the vaccine varieties so they had to be revaccinated with the new generation of vaccines.
2. There is a precedent where the industrialised countries pooled all of their resources through the WHO and eradicated a disease. Smallpox. The money involved if converted to modern prices was more than the billigatus grand gesture and it was not a piecemeal one-off PR exercise. The eradication of smallpox involved several new vaccine strains, blanket vaccinations of entire countries, maintaining vaccination programmes and missions for 10+ years in a country. It was a coordinated effort that lasted nearly 20 years. And succeeded.
3. There are a number of projects like the smallpox one that can be completed with under 500 million. Eradication of polio is a prime example. There are a few others. Burning 750 millions for PR purposes does not strike me like something particularly usefull compared to giving 75 million to any of these projects. This of course will mean that the Billigatus will have to assume that someone else will actually decide how the money is to be used which is something his foundation has so far disallowed.
I can continue ad naseum but this is yet another billigatus PR exercise. In fact most of the efforts nowdays are like this. Noone wants to give money to something that will run for 20 years or more but may solve the problem once and for all.
Not funny.
Unless the machete is to take your head off.
You truly deserve it.
Anyway, on subject. Who cares about yet another piece of PR shit. Using the American vaccine pricing 750 million will just about vaccinate 1-2 central African countries with the standard kids vaccines + essential tropical ones. Once. It is a drop in the ocean. Even if the vaccines are priced sanely it is still a drop in the ocean. It will take the vaccines to be priced at manufacturing cost and manufactured in the 3rd world for this money to be barely enough to vaccinate just central Africa leaving central American and Asian kids to die.
Off the top of my head. These are approximate prices and they are likely to vary per market up to several times. They are also one-shot prices so if you are running a campaign and buying bulk you may get better pricing (not by much for some of the vaccines).
Standard course of childhood vaccinations is above 200$ as per US prices. Under standard I mean MMR, VZV, Polio, TB, that cough thing, Diphteritis, the strain of the meningococcus that has a vaccine for it and a few minor items. If you add the tropical ones like Cholera, Yellow Fever, etc you are going to add 100-200 more.
The developed countries have vaccination programs already so we should be looking only at the ones who need it and nearly all of them are tropical. So 750 million by 400 makes around 2 million. That is less then the children in 2-3 African countries. Even if we manage to get a 10 times volume discount we are still looking at less then half of Central Africa.
Typical billigatus foundation PR exercise. Same as the Indian fight AIDS campaign and a few others. I guess some people never change.
Not by ear.
Standard RTP jitter using proper testing gear measured during evening hours (residential peak time).
90% 3ms or under. Did not try to fit it to poisson, but it did look like a pretty good fit. The upward hump which you see on congested networks was definitely missing. Basically no congestion, equipment based jitter only.
It depends what are you called. There is a large number of UK agencies where you have to be called appropriately. John Smith or Vinod Patel usually does nicely. If you are called something inappropriate which sounds Polish, French or god forbid eastern European you have no chance in getting a responce whatsoever.
So here is what I usually do: if I do not get a responce from a place on more then 5 applications I also send a revised version of my CV with a fake Indian or British name (a random permutation of names from lackluster UK soaps usually does nicely).
If I get an immediate responce I start filtering the place out from any further job searches (no point applying if they will discriminate based on your name anyway).
The approach is not scientific as there is not enough data for a proper statistics, but it is helpfull enough. Saves _loads_ of time and frustration.
Two dedicated VOIP operators - Gossip Telecom and one more which specializes in businesses and offers IP Centrex style solutions (fully outsourced VOIP PBX). These are dependant on your link so your mileage is likely to vary.
Also at least some ISPs have started offering VOIP as an addon at a minimal cost. Once again, mileage will vary except possibly Nildram. Speaking out of experience (done some measurements on their network and have a non-UK VOIP phone on it): they have nearly 0% packet loss (around 0.01% which is the loss from DSL) and under 3ms jitter. Even the shitties VOIP implementation just works. Of course this does not come out of the blue. They charge you 25 monthly for a static IP with the relevant services attached while the industry average is around 23.
You have not read it. It will be on a specific class of tasks. It is similar to modern GPUs. They are faster then 10 opterons on a specific task.
Back to the article. The guy seems to understand hardware, but he does not understand shit about software. Once he got past the first 3 parts he started babbling. Linux on cell, so on, so fourth. If he just read his previous parts he should have hit himself on the head. The only type of linux this can run is mcLinux. There is no memory protection as such. So no Linux, no Windows past 2000, no MacOS past X, so on so fourth.
Similarly, it is all nice and well about cell software beasties making herds by themselves and cooperating on a task. I am going to be a spoilsport and ask a nasty question: Err.. What about a security model? Memory protection? Privilege model for communications? So on so fourth...
To continue on this, the power of a modern general purpose OS is the task switching. How long does it take to load and store the context of the vector processing units? Doing so requires moving their dedicated memory to main memory. This will take ages.
Overall, this is a design similar to Cray 1 initial design. Cray initial design smashed the IBM, DEC (and lesser fish) monopoly on big computing iron to bits. Unfortunately the next thing the people buying the Cray asked for was "can we share this resource between two people?". The answer was provided eventually, but by the time Cray could do all the nifty time sharing and memory management tricks necessary to do this its advantage was no longer phenomenal. And all people who could use Crays for single tasks with manual scheduling actually continued to use it that way. But it did not even dent the general purpose big iron market.
Back to the USSR...
Well, more material for the boys from Brussels. I guess HP is doing their best to break MSFT record for an EC fine.
Who cares about Gillian Anderson, will the Playboy lineup be signed up? Oops... Forgot that we are talking about X files, not Red Shoe Diaries here...
From the perspective of a vendor making a small embedded device whose success is dependant on time-to-market open source is quite often a very expensive proposition. 95% of the stuff on the market is in fact broken hardware fixed by a quick and ugly fixes in software. It was done this way because the budget and the delivery schedules did not allow fixing the hardware properly. Do you thing that the vendors would like to have the breakage documented, well known and available to the average luser doing a google for it? Of course not.
Yes. 2.6 is definitely considerably faster (typing this on a Lex running 2.6.9 at the moment).
In either case make sure to build a custom kernel. Most distros do not ship a MTRR enabled kernel for C3 which results in the video working considerably slower then it can.
No, This is Sun marketing and project management choice. They are looking at OO as a part of their desktop solution. A different OO will increase their training costs, muddy the overall message and most importantly increase the sales of a CPU that is in the servers of their main competitor.
When Sun is making a decision you can always count on the following: they will make the decision regardless of technical or financial merit if the words IBM are involved anywhere. In that case it will be whatever the anti-IBM decision will be. It is part of the company culture (just ask any old time Sun staffer anything about IBM and watch).
Actually, they are marketing it the wrong way. They are marketing it as means of signal not getting out. I think the case of signal not getting in is considerably more interesting.
Which leads to the nice and obvious results. The idiot neigbour with the new and flashy access point he got for Xmas is no longer interfering with your wireless.
While at it, alluminium laced paints are usually highly combustible. What is the fire safety rating of this stuff?
Teenagers will not take this one. Too bland sluggish and weak for their taste. Speaking out of experience as I have one in the house and quite a few in the office (circa 20-30).
The PC on the picture is LeX. http://www.lex.com.tw/. It exists in 2 major incarnations - 533 MHz C3 and 800 MHz C3. The first is fully passive cooling, the second is fanned. Both incarnations have subvariants with 1-3 10/100 Realtek or 10/10/1000 Intel Ethernets. Video is Cyberblade with shared RAM, audio and on-board chipset is Via. There is 3", 2", CF and disk on chip connector on board. The standard disk is a 2". Can take up to 512MB 133 SDRAM using a single low profile DIMM. DC to DC convertor on board, external 12V DC power supply.
The 3 interface variety make very good firewalls and routers.
The price quoted on the website is barely just above what Lex charges for the 533 with a minimal disk or flash and minimal RAM. This means that it is running either Linux or QNX.
The systems are nice, but I would not recommend them for use in anything but a dedicated server/system or a diskless terminal.
The reasons for this are:
- Bad cooling especially on the 533. If you add a disk the heat generation in the case is nearly always above the thermal throttle threshold. This makes the machine go sluggish even with minimal use.
- The video is quite sluggish and if pushed to higher frequencies takes a lot of the system memory bandwidth.
As far as spec is concerned the Lex is a very advanced typewriter with a reasonable audio (all proper mini-ITX VIA motherboards have a better one). It crawls when used under Linux 2.4, 2.6 is passable but still slow. BSD 5.x is quite good as it seems to take advantage of the thermal throttle in a better way. Windoze is barely standable. It should also run QNX and a few other suspects.So whom did they copy a superscalar design based on x86 over risc emulation from in 1995? Can we all know this mistery company? My guess is that whatever they did U5 was not going to be more then a few percent of their turnover. In those days UMC was the one of the biggest cheap chip foundries (bigger then TSMC is now in market share terms) and if Intel managed to get a injunction on their other products that would have really hurt them.
Will not work with a Via C3 600 Mhz Eden. Standard M motherboard by the look of it. I use them for servers and test kit (have 20-30 around the office, the house and various installations for friends).
Whatever you do the CPU will stay at under 32C in a 1U server, 29C in a normal case. The moment it gets warmer then 40C it starts throttling down (without your intervention, you cannot do anything about it). Practically impossible to fry as long as it has at leas something resembling heatsink on top.
While on the subject, 10 years ago I used to have an AMD 386 DX motherboard screwed directly onto the desk. The CPU was just the right temperature to keep a jezve with turkish coffee or a small expresso cup warm. Worked a treat and I am still amazed that we did not spill a single drop of coffee on top of it in nearly a year.
I hate to sound like Victor Meldrew, but I seriously dislike the way 2.6 is going. It should have settled by now, but instead of that you see major changes to scheduler, network drivers in every changelog. The only thing that is being left alone for now is the VM (thanks god for that).
While I have to admit that none of them is anything as scary as some of the stuff that happened to 2.4 around 2.4.7-2.4.13 when the VM got changed, it is not right.
The supposedly ready and released kernel 2.6 by now from minor version 0 to minor version 10 has had its entire ethertool interface changed at least twice, the process scheduler changed at least once, the IO scheduler changed at least once, it still does not support things that 2.4 used to support in the USB subsystem (anyone running a scanner on it raise your hand). Shall I continue?
In btw, does anyone know of any place on the network where you can view the changelog split by subsystem/kernel tree directory? It is 1.5 on the average (so much for "stable" kernel) between minor version and it is getting quite hard to read.
No,
The lack of breakthrough will be due to something entirely different.
So far we have been exploiting the fruits of fundamental material science, physics and chemistry research done in the 60-es (if not earlier), 70-es and to a small extent in the 80-es. There has been nothing fundamentally new done in the 90-es. A lot of nice engineering - yes. A lot of clever manufacturing techniques silicon of insulator being a prime example - yes. But nothing as far as the underlying science is concerned.
This is not just the semiconductor industry. The situation is the same across the board. The charitable foundations and the state which used to be the prime source of fundamental research funding now require a project plan and a date when the supposed product will deliver a result (thinly disguised words for profit). They also do not invest into projects longer then 3 years.
As a result noone looks at things that may bring a breakthrough and there shall be no breakthroughs until this situation changes
This means that you do not understand the meaning of java as far as Sun marketing strategy is concerned.
Java as far as Sun is concerned is a method of pushing a large number of customers onto Sun's native *sparc/Solaris platform and the associated software and support contract. The only reason for the existence of ports to other platforms is to bait people into switching.
Intel implied that they have copied their CPU design illegally.
All others with x86 clones have licenses for 286 and/or 386. IIRC the licensees are IIT, Harris, AMD and Cyrix. UMC never licensed the instruction set.
IANAL so I am not sure to what extent did Intel intellectual property cover 486. P4 is clearly protected by patents and requires a license to copy the bus design and the SSE instructions. P3 is not as far as its bus is concerned. I have no idea about the instruction set for P3 or earlier.
Anyway, to the extent of my knowledge UMC did not really put up a fight and gave up more or less quietly.
Well...
All I can say that now I am even more inclined to think that a significant proportion of the jets in the US airspace has had missile warning systems installed. Most of these have a component which detects laser illumination at the more popular wavelengths because it is used for distance/speed measurement in the newer missile launchers.
This is the only way someone could have noticed that some idiot is shining a laser pointer. At 500+ mph there is simply no way for the dot to stay long enough in one place for someone to notice.