So, how does a high-traffic NT-site such as anandtech compare to a high-traffic Linux-site such as slashdot? Both are serving dynamic content from database backends, both have the ability to add user comments to stories.
Does anyone have any numbers on the amount of traffic and the amount of servers both sites have?
It is my impression anandtech is running more and faster servers than slashdot (slashdot has around ten webservers, IIRC). I'm not sure about the amount of traffic they generate.
Could some Gimp artist create a desktop background out of these logos? Just a stylish light-gray background with dark-gray peace,love and linux logos...
Please tell me that linux isn't going to adopt the idea of having a "core" team like the BSD's do...
Linux isn't going to adopt the idea of having a "core" team like the BSD's do.
This meeting just speeds up the exchange of idea's. See it as the linux kernel mailing list on acid. Bringing 65 people together just works so much faster than sending email to a list.
Hotplugging is all about userfriendlyness, both on the server and on the desktop. Imagine hotplugging USB, Firewire, etc. to your desktop.
However I think the Linux kernel (and just the kernel, which is a very small part of the complete system) is currently providing many friendly features to the desktop user: multimedia support (soundcards, TV cards, 3D acceleration support through the DRI, scanners), plug and play support (USB is supposed to be very good in 2.4, however I haven't got any devices to test with; isapnp is part of the kernel, PCI pnp framework available).
Another thing that will probably be part of the 2.5 series are the low latency patches. Amongst other things these patches enable a smooth multimedia experience (gee, I'm sounding like a marketing droid here;-)).
However most of the desktop stuff is to be implemented in userspace: X+KDE or X+Gnome is a good start.
Damn, I can't find that '-1, Ego boost' in my moderation selection list;-)
You lucky basterd! My theoretical topspeed is just 3.4 mbit, however in practice @home never has a good day...
Probably only faster for simple operations
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I couldn't read the press release (MS Word - bah), but judging from the websites, the FPGA is dynamically programmed to perform very specific tasks in hardware.
Since these specific tasks can run in hardware, they will run 1000 times faster than a Pentium. There is no way in the world this machine is going to run general purpose applications at this speed. Only very specific, small, algorithms. Sorry, no 6000 fps for Quake;-)
This makes the machine useless for everyday use in your home. However, I agree this machine may be very usefull for flight-control computers.
The idea is quite nice, but what's the actual use of this? In practice, how many times does it happen that the reverse route differs from the forward route?
Also, the first time I tried it didn't work:-( And when it would have worked, the results would have been worthless because the distance between the targets and the clients was too large - though this will change when the network grows.
Right, please give the correct file permissions to do this:
a) Accesing the net is fine, but setting up a server is not allowed (helps defeating trojans).
b) Just for safety, my Napster client may only access MP3's on my harddisk. MP3's on my harddisk and the NFS share are accessible to everybody. The Napster client may not access any other file except for its configuration, etc.
c) user joe may not run X, only console.
Sure they do. The boiling point of water drops with the pressure. Even in our own atmosphere we can get up to the boiling point. It is somewhere around 15 km up, IIRC.
Even easier: pump the air out of a container containing water and air. The water will boil eventually.
You're right about not exploding in space: our skin is strong enaugh to keep us together.
Yeah, imagine that! The American president can switch off GPS for civilian use any time he wishes, so now he can turn off televisions and cellular phones worldwide;-)
First, try 2.4.1. Knowing if 2.4.1 works for you is fital in finding the bug.
Then, when you know what version broke the driver, you may or may not investigate further on your own. You might want to try some 2.4.2-preX kernel to futher pin down the breakage.
Eventually, just file a bug report to the Linux kernel mailing list. Be sure to be as accurate as possible: describe your hardware and the symptoms as exact as possible.
ReiserFS is generally stable and works for most persons without any trouble. I've been using it for months now on my desktop and I'm really impressed with it. Pressing reset almost becomes fun;-)
However, last time I checked, ReiserFS didn't support quota (this may have changed, I'm sure patches exist). It also doesn't support a bad-block map, so be carefull with partially damaged harddisks.
Furthermore, you can't run NFS of a ReiserFS partition yet.
ReiserFS is very fast. You can really notice difference to ext2, mainly in large directories.
Slashdot is not a software announcement site. Slashdot announces News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters. And yes, this matters. Who cares it isn't stable: noone is telling you or anybody to download, compile, run it. It is just a preview on a very neat technology.
When some media outlet wants to run a story on running X on the Mac, well... this article is fine for them.
Yes, but Linux masquerading sets the source port to some insanely high number (around 60000+ or so), while connections normally originate from relatively low ports, below 10000.
My reply wasn't meant as a rant against you, it was an indirect rant against Microsoft, for (again) reinventing the wheel, but making trying to make the wheel proprietary again.
I'm probably one of the people that "missed a few years" regarding.Net
Yes, quite a few years. The idea is old. However, it was formerly known as Java, the Network Computer, Thin Client, etc. The whole.net thing is just a reimplementation of those, but Microsoft specific.
Not all servers are connected to the internet. Most company servers just sit there at night waiting for the employees to wake up... (apart from making backups, which may or may not take all night).
Most of the comments are about what's instantly visible, the layout so I won't comment on that anymore.
The new database backend is very interesting, IMHO. Applications are more clearly devided into categories and content can be custom-filtered.
The filter is very interesting: personally I'm not that interested in minor bugfixes, for example. There are just plain to many announcements on FM to glance over in a short time. On the old FM, I got bored after reading the 6th uninteresting announcement...
Now lets hope the project index will be updated by the maintainers soon, so it'll get filled with usefull information.
Evolution is mostly a random process - it does not go in any particular 'direction'.
Yes it does. It is aimed at survival. There are numerous survival strategies, of which physical strength, stealth, speed and intelligence are examples.
On some planets, you won't need much intelligence to survive, but on earth you do. The most intelligent species are eradicating the no-so-intelligent species. For example: humans are more intelligent than apes. The number of humans is rising, the number of apes is declining. I believe that when apes had an IQ of 180, humans would get a very tough time...
I think it is extremely unlikely that when life exists on other planets, none of these require intelligence for survival but earth. Also, I think it is unlikely life only exists on just one planet. Therefore, given the sheer number of stars and planets, many intelligent species must exist in space.
However, since a lot of planets were created in roughly the same timeframe, there is a good chance we can't detect them yet.
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So, how does a high-traffic NT-site such as anandtech compare to a high-traffic Linux-site such as slashdot? Both are serving dynamic content from database backends, both have the ability to add user comments to stories.
Does anyone have any numbers on the amount of traffic and the amount of servers both sites have?
It is my impression anandtech is running more and faster servers than slashdot (slashdot has around ten webservers, IIRC). I'm not sure about the amount of traffic they generate.
Anyone?
Could some Gimp artist create a desktop background out of these logos? Just a stylish light-gray background with dark-gray peace,love and linux logos...
Would be very cool.
That sounds awful 2d to me...
It does. It probably doesn't occur to non-techies that normal stereo sound is just 1D and dolby surrond is 2D. Yes, that means mono sound is 0D.
However, clever phase-shifting could make the appearance of 2D using just two (eg. stereo) speakers.
No ssh in any standard browser. Nuff said.
Since the site is slashdotted, here are the links to the advisories on the netfilter sites:
Please tell me that linux isn't going to adopt the idea of having a "core" team like the BSD's do ...
Linux isn't going to adopt the idea of having a "core" team like the BSD's do.
This meeting just speeds up the exchange of idea's. See it as the linux kernel mailing list on acid. Bringing 65 people together just works so much faster than sending email to a list.
Hotplugging is all about userfriendlyness, both on the server and on the desktop. Imagine hotplugging USB, Firewire, etc. to your desktop.
;-)).
However I think the Linux kernel (and just the kernel, which is a very small part of the complete system) is currently providing many friendly features to the desktop user: multimedia support (soundcards, TV cards, 3D acceleration support through the DRI, scanners), plug and play support (USB is supposed to be very good in 2.4, however I haven't got any devices to test with; isapnp is part of the kernel, PCI pnp framework available).
Another thing that will probably be part of the 2.5 series are the low latency patches. Amongst other things these patches enable a smooth multimedia experience (gee, I'm sounding like a marketing droid here
However most of the desktop stuff is to be implemented in userspace: X+KDE or X+Gnome is a good start.
Please mod this up as funny. I've lost my right to moderate replying to another comment...
Damn, I can't find that '-1, Ego boost' in my moderation selection list ;-)
You lucky basterd! My theoretical topspeed is just 3.4 mbit, however in practice @home never has a good day...
I couldn't read the press release (MS Word - bah), but judging from the websites, the FPGA is dynamically programmed to perform very specific tasks in hardware.
Since these specific tasks can run in hardware, they will run 1000 times faster than a Pentium. There is no way in the world this machine is going to run general purpose applications at this speed. Only very specific, small, algorithms. Sorry, no 6000 fps for Quake ;-)
This makes the machine useless for everyday use in your home. However, I agree this machine may be very usefull for flight-control computers.
The idea is quite nice, but what's the actual use of this? In practice, how many times does it happen that the reverse route differs from the forward route?
:-( And when it would have worked, the results would have been worthless because the distance between the targets and the clients was too large - though this will change when the network grows.
Also, the first time I tried it didn't work
Right, please give the correct file permissions to do this:
a) Accesing the net is fine, but setting up a server is not allowed (helps defeating trojans).
b) Just for safety, my Napster client may only access MP3's on my harddisk. MP3's on my harddisk and the NFS share are accessible to everybody. The Napster client may not access any other file except for its configuration, etc.
c) user joe may not run X, only console.
Sure they do. The boiling point of water drops with the pressure. Even in our own atmosphere we can get up to the boiling point. It is somewhere around 15 km up, IIRC.
Even easier: pump the air out of a container containing water and air. The water will boil eventually.
You're right about not exploding in space: our skin is strong enaugh to keep us together.
Yeah, imagine that! The American president can switch off GPS for civilian use any time he wishes, so now he can turn off televisions and cellular phones worldwide ;-)
How 'bout that power?
First, try 2.4.1. Knowing if 2.4.1 works for you is fital in finding the bug.
Then, when you know what version broke the driver, you may or may not investigate further on your own. You might want to try some 2.4.2-preX kernel to futher pin down the breakage.
Eventually, just file a bug report to the Linux kernel mailing list. Be sure to be as accurate as possible: describe your hardware and the symptoms as exact as possible.
Watch Alan as he releases 2.4.2acN and check wether your desired patch is still in the ac kernels. If it's not, it's in the main kernel.
Yes, hardly scientific, but it works.
ReiserFS is generally stable and works for most persons without any trouble. I've been using it for months now on my desktop and I'm really impressed with it. Pressing reset almost becomes fun ;-)
However, last time I checked, ReiserFS didn't support quota (this may have changed, I'm sure patches exist). It also doesn't support a bad-block map, so be carefull with partially damaged harddisks.
Furthermore, you can't run NFS of a ReiserFS partition yet.
ReiserFS is very fast. You can really notice difference to ext2, mainly in large directories.
Slashdot is not a software announcement site. Slashdot announces News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters. And yes, this matters. Who cares it isn't stable: noone is telling you or anybody to download, compile, run it. It is just a preview on a very neat technology.
When some media outlet wants to run a story on running X on the Mac, well... this article is fine for them.
Yes, but Linux masquerading sets the source port to some insanely high number (around 60000+ or so), while connections normally originate from relatively low ports, below 10000.
;-)
However, all of this is configurable offcourse
My reply wasn't meant as a rant against you, it was an indirect rant against Microsoft, for (again) reinventing the wheel, but making trying to make the wheel proprietary again.
I'm probably one of the people that "missed a few years" regarding .Net
Yes, quite a few years. The idea is old. However, it was formerly known as Java, the Network Computer, Thin Client, etc. The whole .net thing is just a reimplementation of those, but Microsoft specific.
For example, a simple search on Google turned up this paper from 1999: Beyond Client/Server--Centralizing Networks with Thin- Client
Or, far more interesting, an article from 1997, written by... Corel. On their NC running Linux.
So, yes. You've missed at least three years.
And that's exacly why the USA is responisble for 25% percent of the CO2 production in the world.
Not all servers are connected to the internet. Most company servers just sit there at night waiting for the employees to wake up... (apart from making backups, which may or may not take all night).
Most of the comments are about what's instantly visible, the layout so I won't comment on that anymore.
The new database backend is very interesting, IMHO. Applications are more clearly devided into categories and content can be custom-filtered.
The filter is very interesting: personally I'm not that interested in minor bugfixes, for example. There are just plain to many announcements on FM to glance over in a short time. On the old FM, I got bored after reading the 6th uninteresting announcement...
Now lets hope the project index will be updated by the maintainers soon, so it'll get filled with usefull information.
Yes it does. It is aimed at survival. There are numerous survival strategies, of which physical strength, stealth, speed and intelligence are examples.
On some planets, you won't need much intelligence to survive, but on earth you do. The most intelligent species are eradicating the no-so-intelligent species. For example: humans are more intelligent than apes. The number of humans is rising, the number of apes is declining. I believe that when apes had an IQ of 180, humans would get a very tough time...
I think it is extremely unlikely that when life exists on other planets, none of these require intelligence for survival but earth. Also, I think it is unlikely life only exists on just one planet. Therefore, given the sheer number of stars and planets, many intelligent species must exist in space.
However, since a lot of planets were created in roughly the same timeframe, there is a good chance we can't detect them yet.