no no no, The guy's problem is probably that he has a well-built Gentoo system with hdparm misconfigured or not added to the boot scripts. He's thinking that maybe if he recompiles with -O9 and seventeen useless and dangerous flags that it'll speed up enough to let him multitask.
I deal with that shit all day.
Boss: "Linux is SLOW, I tried it yesterday!"
Me: "Did you check the bottleneck out? Maybe hdparm was off."
Boss:::stares blankly::
Me: Wait a minute, let me just fix your device manager here, it says you've got a 'VIA Miniport UATA' but I know that this 'Standard PCI ATA' driver works better::grins horribly::. Oh my! You've got write caching turned on too! That's a good way to lose data!::grins more horribly::
I've found that keeping it sinple is the 'best' solution.
Compiling at -O2 is much faster than -O3 and the code often runs faster because all the 'unrolled loops' in -O3 code can get bigger than the CPU's cache. -O3 is probably best for older architectures with miniscule caches and synchronous memory busses (read: 25MHz 68040 Mac, 90MHz Pentium I). Modern machines benefit more from having the bulk of a loop run inside the cache. -O2 binaries are also significantly smaller.
The trick is not NOT 'emerge kde' but to 'emerge kdebase'
kdebase has the window manager, a slew of the basics (kedit, kate, konsole, konqueror, etc.) in it and I've found that it satisfies most of my KDE needs.
Also, QT and kdelibs are what really take a long time to compile.
Try compiling with '-mcpu=|yourcpu| -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer' and see how much faster it compiles, -O3 is a misnomer, it's actually slower to execute a lot of -O3 code than -O2, and -O3 takes a hell of a lot longer to compile.
Er, not really. the API is a construct of the software, not the hardware. It would probably be childs play to get an NT kernel with DirectX running on PPC, all you'd have to do is recompile the app to the new system (after some endian and minor tweaking).
The whole point of an API is that you have an abstraction AWAY from hardware to either make coding easier or code more portable.
When a car alarm goes off for a long time I usually toss a rock at the car or key it to fsck it up, and leave a note saying how the only damage done was BECAUSE of the alarm. I do the same for house alarms.
Not only is it a wonderful release of built-up aggression, it helps to rid our society of this blight of annoying noise.
I drive a car without an alarm, I work and park in Boston, I leave my windows an inch open (to vent) and a CD player out on the dash, I've been doing this for FOUR YEARS and not had a thing stolen. Hell, I used to leave the thing UNLOCKED in Boston before I had a laptop, and nobody ever fscked with it.
Stealing a car these days is VERY hard to pull off without going to prison, and I've had more luck leaving my car 'vulnerable' than locking it down tight, it shows that you've got nothing worth taking.
What pisses me off is that we have to 'protect our children' from all these sick motherfuckers that are the RESULT of the sexually repressed America of the early 1960s and before. Seriously, exposure isn't going to hurt anyone.
I used to look at porn when I was a kid, I'm not at all damaged by it. In fact, I like to think of myself as having MORE healthy sexual experiences with people my own age because of it. This generation is MUCH more fun in bed because we're more exposed to the things that we can do in the bedroom that previous generations had to hide away.
Earlier tonight I had a wonderful experience pleasing a woman in ways I'd never IMAGINE if it weren't for the stuff I'd seen online.
All you 'missionary-position' motherfuckers can go ride a jackhamer for all I care, porn is a beneficial force that will empoer people to have more fun in their sex lives (both alone and with others).
We had a problem like that with a Mac OS 9 to OS X migration. The final solution was telling departments that 'you can hire a consultant out of your department budget to port it to something that runs on the web or in the existing infrastructure or you can lose it when I reimage your machine next year." It worked for us. Of course, we had a developer working on getting as many databases web-ready and on a single server also. Nothing like fear gets a department working to standards-based solutions!
True, but it really WOULD damage their interests. What would happen to all those super-leftie's dollars when they can get tax-deductible doantions to local uber-liberal radio? NPR's funds would dry up instantly.
NPR was acting aggressively and even unfairly against LPFM, but in their view it was all or nothing, and they'd rather not be supplanted by local LPFM stations. Can't say I blame them.
I agree, but I think someone needs to integrate CUPS and a driver database, hook it into the USB libraries and get a 'plug and play' printing system up and running in Linux. I want to plug a printer in and have it JUST WORK. Leave the advanced stuff to the advanced users.
I consider myself a serious geek, but I don't have TIME to fiddle with the lame shit like configuring printing or ALSA.
Now, I DO have to print, and I learned the CLI stuff to get my printer working (and it's a beautiful thing, BTW) but most people lack that initiative. Back when I was a Mandrake and RedHat (read: n00b) user I encountered a lot of dumb shit, I would go to 'add a printer' and end up reading cryptic error messages about libraries and not getting the simple stuff done.
Alright. I just checked my 'mostly default' install and it's closed. I have the IPSec service disabled, as I don't USE IPSec. Just having IPSec sitting there in the networking layer doesn't do any good unless it's configured anyway.
I thought this was odd. I left my hot peppers out a few nights ago, and my cats chewed through three of them. These were Serrano Chilies, pretty hot on the scale as far as chilies go. Since then they've been trying to get into the cabinet where I put the peppers.
Then again they seem to mimic all my habits. I've got one cat that goes NUTS for coffee grinds and another that chases and eats tobacco products.
That is SO full of crap. The G5 consumes under 50 watts at 2GHz, less than a Pentium4, I don't see 2GHz P4 laptops needing water cooling. The reason the G5 is _PERCIEVED_ as a hot chip is that Mac users are used to the 'good ole' days' when their CPUs only sucked 5-15 watts, we've STILL got quite a lead on you x86 folks. My Athlon XP 2500+ puts out 78 watts at 1.8GHz.
The G4 and G5 both produce WAY less heat then their x86 counterparts, but Apple uses GIANT heatsinks so they can run their fans at very low RPMs.
Get a grip on reality. The 'hot lap' G4 latops are still cooler than PCs of comparable clock speed, from my own experience. Mac users have just been spoiled by the 68K and G3 series, which were passively cooled (read: no fan. at all.).
Hmm. I've had good luck with portdir_overlay, but I've moved mine from/usr/portage/... to/usr/portage-overlay, so it's not INSIDE the tree. also, after you edit your custom.ebuild, you may have to 'touch -acm' it. that's what the problem probably is, the access date on the portage copy is newer, so portage tries to use that instead of your custom copy.
I just totally rebuilt my systems with gcc-3.3.2 / glibc-2.3.2 / kernel-headers-2.6.1, I had to drop a few packages, but overall everything works splendidly. I'm in that teensy little group of people who actually have an entire system built against the NPTL thread libraries.
Honestly, I don't notice much of a difference, just some 'different' behavior when I'm loading the system. It's not like things compile ten times faster or mozilla opens in much less time. I noticed that my system 'loads' differently now, full-speed network transfers tend to take all the unused CPU power, but only when no other processes want it. Before, under 2.4, full-speed net transfers would only tax my CPU to about 10%, but I suppose having the slightly greater throughput at the cost of 'junk' cycles makes sense, it's probably a high-res timer kicking in to make sure the NIC is 'properly fed'.
This weekend I'll be rebuilding my PPC and x86 machines AGAIN against gcc-3.3.3 / glibc-2.3.2 NPTL / linux-headers-2.6.3, I think I'll give the advanced IO-APIC a try too. I'm hoping 2.6.3 will fix some of those broken packages on PPC. Wish me luck!
I know the Nehemiah series chips are much better than the Ezra variant, but I had trouble with latency on my Ezra-based EPIA-800.
I intended to use it as a 'multi console emulator' emulating game boy, NES, Genesis, SNES, and some VERY old DOS games. I kept noticing 'lag' when using the joystick and Mario 3. I would hit the jump button and the delay was much more than the console had accustomed me to. DOS games were bad too, but I attribute that to BOCHS more than the CPU.
Are you running Windows on your EPIA? I don't think there are adequate free (beer or speech) drivers for the hardware video decoder built into the M-series EPIA mobos, so they're definitely out of the question for a lot of us.
Also, when I did hook my EPIA up to a 'real' monitor I noticed it was WAY blurrier than when I hook up my Mac or ATI-carded PC. It was unacceptable in my opinion. The sound was pretty shitty too, very 'buzzy' and bad response on the lows and highs compared to my desktop systems.
I just got a job as a sysadmin for a division of the network here, and all I've got is high school. In fact, I've been employed this whole crunch. And if the employers looked closely, the'd see that I was actually kicked out of high school and had to finish at an alternative school.
All the folks I've worked for are big on education, but when they hear that I've ben running networks since I was 10 they tend to 'bend'.
That said, I do know several folks with EE masters who are loading trucks right now, but I really don't feel threatened by their big 'education' section on the resume, I've got a bigger 'experience' section, and no unexplained gaps or terminations, and that's what most are looking for.
Alright, for all of us 'working stiffs' not in business for ourselves, we pay taxes BEFORE the check is handed to us, and when we buy something we pay the sales tax as a condition of the sale. You can't get arrested for not paying sales tax if you didn't buy something because you didn't want to pay the tax.
Food, groceries, the stuff people eat, is tax-free where I live (Rhode Island). You pay a tax on 'prepared foods' but not on groceries. No argument there.
Nobody's starving because of the piece Uncle Sam takes out, people are starving because wages are so low compared to cost of living these days. My dad worked at McDonalds and put himself through private college and lived in an apartment in the 1960s, I make THREE TIMES minimum wage and I can barely afford the basement apartment I live in.
And don't forget that there are TONS of programs to keep kids (and adults) fed. They wouldn't be there if uncle sam didn't foot the bill for them by taking a bit out of all our checks.
And I fail to see what's any more 'totalitarian' about an internet sales tax or a media tax than there is to a regular over-the-counter sales tax. Does taxing something new that's replacing an old revenue stream imply some sort of cold-blooded dictatorship to you?
And your enforcability problem? What's any more enforcable about the taxes you're talking about than the ones we already have? I can't mosey down to the convenience store and get a pack of gum and a twinkie 'hold the sales tax' can I? Hell, that's the way taxes SHOULD work, tax what you KNOW FOR SURE. All this 'calculated this-and-that deferred thingy quarterly' bullshit is just more holes for people who can afford accountants to slip out of paying their fair share. I wish they'd tax sales and income FLAT, no BS, "you make a buck, we take a quarter", none of this pre-tax and post-tax expenses stuff, no AGI, no capital gains, no minimum income.
Windowmaker, while it mimics NestSTEP, is a GREAT WM. I've NEVER had so little trouble as when I've run WindowMaker.
I think that WindowMaker is at the opposite end of the spectrum of Win32 systems, it's a dock-based system with no integrated file manager or desktop. It's like OS X without Finder, it's just there to MANGE WINDOWS.
I personally use WindowMaker, Mozilla, rxvt, xmms, OpenOffice, and GAIM, that's all. All the tools I need besides that run in the rxvt terminal. I've got 7 virtual desktops:
one for 'communication' two for browsing two for 'projects' one for a root shell one for household finances
xmms is omnipresent, it's ij the background of all desktops. GAIM too when I feel social.
I disagree, If I were back in school I'd get a really good 100% linux compatible desktop and a shitty used laptop. Use the laptop to take notes and sync back to your desktop. Most schools will allow connections to X servers between the school LAN and dorm machines if you want to do it that way.
Lock the desktop down to the radiator or a pipe with a cable or chain, back it up to your school-provided storage if possible. Use the laptop as an 'expendable' workstation. A Compaq Armada 1750 PII/400 has a 1024x768 screen and up to 320MB RAM, but only costs $400. When it gets stolen you don't cry because the desktop's got your data, and the laptop only cost you a little bit.
I agree. I'm friends with a guy who spends his spare time working on his plane. All you need is a big garage and the same stuff you use to take care of a car or truck. This guy actually uses his (long) backyard as a runway, and he flies to work when he gets jobs near small airports. He just has one of his employees pick him up at the airport for an extra $20 and they go work construction together.
The Blue Angels are paying top-dollar for a team of mechanics, and they're flying in ways that probably really tax and wear the planes down fast, a guy and his buddy with the know-how might be able to get the thing in the air for an hour or two every month on their own labor.
I'd think that AMD's real moneymaker isn't selling CPUs to people, but the HUGE embedded and ASIC market. Hell, I've got radios, televisions, keyboards, PDAs, and network equipment with AMD ASICs in them. Sure, the price might be only a few cents for those chips, but there's so freaking many of them.
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no no no, The guy's problem is probably that he has a well-built Gentoo system with hdparm misconfigured or not added to the boot scripts. He's thinking that maybe if he recompiles with -O9 and seventeen useless and dangerous flags that it'll speed up enough to let him multitask.
::stares blankly::
::grins horribly::. Oh my! You've got write caching turned on too! That's a good way to lose data! ::grins more horribly::
I deal with that shit all day.
Boss: "Linux is SLOW, I tried it yesterday!"
Me: "Did you check the bottleneck out? Maybe hdparm was off."
Boss:
Me: Wait a minute, let me just fix your device manager here, it says you've got a 'VIA Miniport UATA' but I know that this 'Standard PCI ATA' driver works better
I've found that keeping it sinple is the 'best' solution.
Compiling at -O2 is much faster than -O3 and the code often runs faster because all the 'unrolled loops' in -O3 code can get bigger than the CPU's cache. -O3 is probably best for older architectures with miniscule caches and synchronous memory busses (read: 25MHz 68040 Mac, 90MHz Pentium I). Modern machines benefit more from having the bulk of a loop run inside the cache. -O2 binaries are also significantly smaller.
My bad, I've been in PowerPC-land for the last month where -mcpu= is the only way to go.
The trick is not NOT 'emerge kde' but to 'emerge kdebase'
kdebase has the window manager, a slew of the basics (kedit, kate, konsole, konqueror, etc.) in it and I've found that it satisfies most of my KDE needs.
Also, QT and kdelibs are what really take a long time to compile.
Try compiling with '-mcpu=|yourcpu| -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer' and see how much faster it compiles, -O3 is a misnomer, it's actually slower to execute a lot of -O3 code than -O2, and -O3 takes a hell of a lot longer to compile.
Er, not really. the API is a construct of the software, not the hardware. It would probably be childs play to get an NT kernel with DirectX running on PPC, all you'd have to do is recompile the app to the new system (after some endian and minor tweaking).
The whole point of an API is that you have an abstraction AWAY from hardware to either make coding easier or code more portable.
I have a long-term grassroots solution.
When a car alarm goes off for a long time I usually toss a rock at the car or key it to fsck it up, and leave a note saying how the only damage done was BECAUSE of the alarm. I do the same for house alarms.
Not only is it a wonderful release of built-up aggression, it helps to rid our society of this blight of annoying noise.
I drive a car without an alarm, I work and park in Boston, I leave my windows an inch open (to vent) and a CD player out on the dash, I've been doing this for FOUR YEARS and not had a thing stolen. Hell, I used to leave the thing UNLOCKED in Boston before I had a laptop, and nobody ever fscked with it.
Stealing a car these days is VERY hard to pull off without going to prison, and I've had more luck leaving my car 'vulnerable' than locking it down tight, it shows that you've got nothing worth taking.
What pisses me off is that we have to 'protect our children' from all these sick motherfuckers that are the RESULT of the sexually repressed America of the early 1960s and before. Seriously, exposure isn't going to hurt anyone.
I used to look at porn when I was a kid, I'm not at all damaged by it. In fact, I like to think of myself as having MORE healthy sexual experiences with people my own age because of it. This generation is MUCH more fun in bed because we're more exposed to the things that we can do in the bedroom that previous generations had to hide away.
Earlier tonight I had a wonderful experience pleasing a woman in ways I'd never IMAGINE if it weren't for the stuff I'd seen online.
All you 'missionary-position' motherfuckers can go ride a jackhamer for all I care, porn is a beneficial force that will empoer people to have more fun in their sex lives (both alone and with others).
God bless pornography.
We had a problem like that with a Mac OS 9 to OS X migration. The final solution was telling departments that 'you can hire a consultant out of your department budget to port it to something that runs on the web or in the existing infrastructure or you can lose it when I reimage your machine next year." It worked for us. Of course, we had a developer working on getting as many databases web-ready and on a single server also. Nothing like fear gets a department working to standards-based solutions!
True, but it really WOULD damage their interests. What would happen to all those super-leftie's dollars when they can get tax-deductible doantions to local uber-liberal radio? NPR's funds would dry up instantly.
NPR was acting aggressively and even unfairly against LPFM, but in their view it was all or nothing, and they'd rather not be supplanted by local LPFM stations. Can't say I blame them.
I agree, but I think someone needs to integrate CUPS and a driver database, hook it into the USB libraries and get a 'plug and play' printing system up and running in Linux. I want to plug a printer in and have it JUST WORK. Leave the advanced stuff to the advanced users.
I consider myself a serious geek, but I don't have TIME to fiddle with the lame shit like configuring printing or ALSA.
Now, I DO have to print, and I learned the CLI stuff to get my printer working (and it's a beautiful thing, BTW) but most people lack that initiative. Back when I was a Mandrake and RedHat (read: n00b) user I encountered a lot of dumb shit, I would go to 'add a printer' and end up reading cryptic error messages about libraries and not getting the simple stuff done.
Alright. I just checked my 'mostly default' install and it's closed. I have the IPSec service disabled, as I don't USE IPSec. Just having IPSec sitting there in the networking layer doesn't do any good unless it's configured anyway.
I thought this was odd. I left my hot peppers out a few nights ago, and my cats chewed through three of them. These were Serrano Chilies, pretty hot on the scale as far as chilies go. Since then they've been trying to get into the cabinet where I put the peppers.
Then again they seem to mimic all my habits. I've got one cat that goes NUTS for coffee grinds and another that chases and eats tobacco products.
Alright, I'm off to go snuggle them!
That is SO full of crap. The G5 consumes under 50 watts at 2GHz, less than a Pentium4, I don't see 2GHz P4 laptops needing water cooling. The reason the G5 is _PERCIEVED_ as a hot chip is that Mac users are used to the 'good ole' days' when their CPUs only sucked 5-15 watts, we've STILL got quite a lead on you x86 folks. My Athlon XP 2500+ puts out 78 watts at 1.8GHz.
The G4 and G5 both produce WAY less heat then their x86 counterparts, but Apple uses GIANT heatsinks so they can run their fans at very low RPMs.
Get a grip on reality. The 'hot lap' G4 latops are still cooler than PCs of comparable clock speed, from my own experience. Mac users have just been spoiled by the 68K and G3 series, which were passively cooled (read: no fan. at all.).
Hmm. I've had good luck with portdir_overlay, but I've moved mine from /usr/portage/... to /usr/portage-overlay, so it's not INSIDE the tree. also, after you edit your custom .ebuild, you may have to 'touch -acm' it. that's what the problem probably is, the access date on the portage copy is newer, so portage tries to use that instead of your custom copy.
I just totally rebuilt my systems with gcc-3.3.2 / glibc-2.3.2 / kernel-headers-2.6.1, I had to drop a few packages, but overall everything works splendidly. I'm in that teensy little group of people who actually have an entire system built against the NPTL thread libraries.
Honestly, I don't notice much of a difference, just some 'different' behavior when I'm loading the system. It's not like things compile ten times faster or mozilla opens in much less time. I noticed that my system 'loads' differently now, full-speed network transfers tend to take all the unused CPU power, but only when no other processes want it. Before, under 2.4, full-speed net transfers would only tax my CPU to about 10%, but I suppose having the slightly greater throughput at the cost of 'junk' cycles makes sense, it's probably a high-res timer kicking in to make sure the NIC is 'properly fed'.
This weekend I'll be rebuilding my PPC and x86 machines AGAIN against gcc-3.3.3 / glibc-2.3.2 NPTL / linux-headers-2.6.3, I think I'll give the advanced IO-APIC a try too. I'm hoping 2.6.3 will fix some of those broken packages on PPC. Wish me luck!
I know the Nehemiah series chips are much better than the Ezra variant, but I had trouble with latency on my Ezra-based EPIA-800.
I intended to use it as a 'multi console emulator' emulating game boy, NES, Genesis, SNES, and some VERY old DOS games. I kept noticing 'lag' when using the joystick and Mario 3. I would hit the jump button and the delay was much more than the console had accustomed me to. DOS games were bad too, but I attribute that to BOCHS more than the CPU.
Are you running Windows on your EPIA? I don't think there are adequate free (beer or speech) drivers for the hardware video decoder built into the M-series EPIA mobos, so they're definitely out of the question for a lot of us.
Also, when I did hook my EPIA up to a 'real' monitor I noticed it was WAY blurrier than when I hook up my Mac or ATI-carded PC. It was unacceptable in my opinion. The sound was pretty shitty too, very 'buzzy' and bad response on the lows and highs compared to my desktop systems.
I'm not rich either, and my tax cut was $1.53/week.
What the FUCK am I going to do with $1.53 a week? It's NOTHING to be excited about if you're like me and work a decent 40 hours for under $35K/year.
I'd rather have that money doing something useful for me, like paying for my school or making sure I'll be able to afford a doctor if I get laid off.
Oh GOD, the memories of being a fifteen-year-old street-roaming punk of a geek!
I just really did ROFLOL.
I just got a job as a sysadmin for a division of the network here, and all I've got is high school. In fact, I've been employed this whole crunch. And if the employers looked closely, the'd see that I was actually kicked out of high school and had to finish at an alternative school.
All the folks I've worked for are big on education, but when they hear that I've ben running networks since I was 10 they tend to 'bend'.
That said, I do know several folks with EE masters who are loading trucks right now, but I really don't feel threatened by their big 'education' section on the resume, I've got a bigger 'experience' section, and no unexplained gaps or terminations, and that's what most are looking for.
Alright, for all of us 'working stiffs' not in business for ourselves, we pay taxes BEFORE the check is handed to us, and when we buy something we pay the sales tax as a condition of the sale. You can't get arrested for not paying sales tax if you didn't buy something because you didn't want to pay the tax.
Food, groceries, the stuff people eat, is tax-free where I live (Rhode Island). You pay a tax on 'prepared foods' but not on groceries. No argument there.
Nobody's starving because of the piece Uncle Sam takes out, people are starving because wages are so low compared to cost of living these days. My dad worked at McDonalds and put himself through private college and lived in an apartment in the 1960s, I make THREE TIMES minimum wage and I can barely afford the basement apartment I live in.
And don't forget that there are TONS of programs to keep kids (and adults) fed. They wouldn't be there if uncle sam didn't foot the bill for them by taking a bit out of all our checks.
And I fail to see what's any more 'totalitarian' about an internet sales tax or a media tax than there is to a regular over-the-counter sales tax. Does taxing something new that's replacing an old revenue stream imply some sort of cold-blooded dictatorship to you?
And your enforcability problem? What's any more enforcable about the taxes you're talking about than the ones we already have? I can't mosey down to the convenience store and get a pack of gum and a twinkie 'hold the sales tax' can I? Hell, that's the way taxes SHOULD work, tax what you KNOW FOR SURE. All this 'calculated this-and-that deferred thingy quarterly' bullshit is just more holes for people who can afford accountants to slip out of paying their fair share. I wish they'd tax sales and income FLAT, no BS, "you make a buck, we take a quarter", none of this pre-tax and post-tax expenses stuff, no AGI, no capital gains, no minimum income.
damn straight, one for self-inflicted work-related browsing, and one for... self-inflicted hairy-palm browsing.
Alright, I'm aiming for you now.
Windowmaker, while it mimics NestSTEP, is a GREAT WM. I've NEVER had so little trouble as when I've run WindowMaker.
I think that WindowMaker is at the opposite end of the spectrum of Win32 systems, it's a dock-based system with no integrated file manager or desktop. It's like OS X without Finder, it's just there to MANGE WINDOWS.
I personally use WindowMaker, Mozilla, rxvt, xmms, OpenOffice, and GAIM, that's all. All the tools I need besides that run in the rxvt terminal. I've got 7 virtual desktops:
one for 'communication'
two for browsing
two for 'projects'
one for a root shell
one for household finances
xmms is omnipresent, it's ij the background of all desktops. GAIM too when I feel social.
I disagree, If I were back in school I'd get a really good 100% linux compatible desktop and a shitty used laptop. Use the laptop to take notes and sync back to your desktop. Most schools will allow connections to X servers between the school LAN and dorm machines if you want to do it that way.
Lock the desktop down to the radiator or a pipe with a cable or chain, back it up to your school-provided storage if possible. Use the laptop as an 'expendable' workstation. A Compaq Armada 1750 PII/400 has a 1024x768 screen and up to 320MB RAM, but only costs $400. When it gets stolen you don't cry because the desktop's got your data, and the laptop only cost you a little bit.
I agree. I'm friends with a guy who spends his spare time working on his plane. All you need is a big garage and the same stuff you use to take care of a car or truck. This guy actually uses his (long) backyard as a runway, and he flies to work when he gets jobs near small airports. He just has one of his employees pick him up at the airport for an extra $20 and they go work construction together.
The Blue Angels are paying top-dollar for a team of mechanics, and they're flying in ways that probably really tax and wear the planes down fast, a guy and his buddy with the know-how might be able to get the thing in the air for an hour or two every month on their own labor.
As for fuel, I'd have no idea how to pay for it.
I'd think that AMD's real moneymaker isn't selling CPUs to people, but the HUGE embedded and ASIC market. Hell, I've got radios, televisions, keyboards, PDAs, and network equipment with AMD ASICs in them. Sure, the price might be only a few cents for those chips, but there's so freaking many of them.