The numbers have probably changed since I last ran them, but last I looked, in terms of the raw compute power available on a cluster, {Linux/BSD/Solaris} delivered almost twice as many usable processing cycles as a Windows solution. No matter what, the windowing system was consuming a fair number of cycles even when not in use. Has this changed or has it gotten worse under XP?
11. nsi-direct.com: On 13 June 2002, we sent you an e-mail asking VeriSign Registrar to correct inaccurate Whois data in the record for nsi-direct.com. The administrative contact e-mail address for that registration is still listed as "no.valid.email@WORLDNIC.NET". We sent a test message to that address last week - it bounced back with an indication that the address was not valid. Over two months after the initial report, the invalid data is still being reported in VeriSign's Whois service.
The ACME Sales Corporation is proud to announce a solution to your problems. The XJ19 Laser tatoo removal kit. It will even remove the "Sucker" tatoos clearly emblazended upon your foreheads. How did you get conned into taking these jobs? Cat hearding is easy in comparison to the tasks you each wield. For only $99.95, and three sacrificial rubber chickens, we will gladly send you our kit.
Satan is staring incredulously at the ceiling, as icicles begin to form. He calls over one of his assistants and asks, "What happened? Did the Cubs win the penant?" "No", his assistant replies, "Worse, Verizon is on the other side now." Stunned, Satan picks up the phone and dials. "Hello, Mr. Powell, I have a problem I need you to solve." A smile comes to his face, as he places the handset down.
I see that we have extensive lists of the artists of the past 20 years, but electronic music goes back much further than that. May I recommend a oen to start with? Morton Subotnick would be a great example. A DVD of his work from 1969 and 1978 was recently released, "Volume 1: Electronic Works". This is some of pioneering work in multi-channel sound reproduction.
Has anyone compared the probability for survival of an open source project to the probability of survival for a closed source project? I suspect that the results might be interesting.
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I don't know if this existed earlier, but this was an undocumented instruction for the MC6800 processor. Supposedly, it was meant as a manufacturing test. The only way to reset it was a power cycle of the processor.
This goes way back, but if memory serves correct the original PC-Basic 1.0 interpreter, that was shipped with PC/DOS 1.0, would report that 1 + 1 = 1.999999. Needless to say version 1.1 was shipped shortly thereafter.
1) If memory serves correct, hydrogen ( hence Tritium ) never becomes a solid under normal pressure. It would need to be put under intense pressure to reach the solid state. It also will become metallic under these conditions.
2) If you think Tritium is expensive, just try to figure out how much anti-matter costs. Currently, it would work out to many Trillions of dollars per gram.
The name of the system was CBBS, created by Randy Seuss and Ward Christensen. Ward was also the creator of the Xmodem protocol. The original phone # was 312-545-8086, and later 847-545-8086. It was offline for some time, unless someone has resurrected it. If memory serves correct, it was an S-100 machine, definately pre-PC. The CBBS "community" migrated to chinet ( A machine run by Randy Seuss, an AT&T 3B2/300, one of the first USENET nodes in Chicago ) in the mid 1980's.
IMHO, many of the roots of the open software movement originated in the original BBS community.
and the peasants are starting to figure it out. As for those who say Microsoft is too big to crash, wouldn't that have been said about Quest, Enron, Arthur Andersen, Worldcom, Xerox, etc., etc., not so long ago? Amazing how quickly the world can change.
Speaking as previous long time user of CBBS ( the birthplace of Xmodem ), I will point out that Xmodem enjoyed a great acceptance in the BBS community prior to adoption of support for Kermit. Early versions of Kermit were extremely inefficient compared to Xmodem, but it was the only game in town if you were interested in tranfers to and from MVS mainframes. Kermit quickly ruled the domain of inter-architecture tranfers, while XModem, and it's derivatives quickly dominated the PC domain.
And years later, there was the legendary KA9Q code.:->
"Although data in many different formats was encoded on punch cards over the years, much was encoded in the standard Ascii text format and can easily be transferred to modern computer files with the right equipment."
Maybe I was hanging out with the wrong people in my youth, but all the punchcards I pounded out were EBCDIC.
Although Edward is an amazing individual, you might just want to read his autobiography ( Just published recently, ISBN 0-7382-0532-X ). Of particular note is Edward's perspective of just what happened with regards to his testimony about Robert Oppenheimer. This is now the second book I recommend to aspiring scientists, after Galileo's "Dialogue on the Two World Systems". Both are incredible insights to the world we really live in.
Kibology predates alt.religion.kibology by quite some time. Find the first postings to alt.religion.subgenius, for a true beginning. James "Kibo" Perry was quite a presence back then, along with the legendary Henry Spencer from utzoo.
Tiger Direct, aka, Global Computer, aka SystemMax. I'm sure they have a few more names, probably from acquisitions that have been made over the years. I been buying stuff from them for years, and so far, I don't have any complaints. In fact, I've gotten some damn good deals at the Global clearance center located off Route 59, in Naperville, Illinois.
IBM wanted the PC to support multiple operating systems. Within a year of release, IBM was shipping PC/DOS, UCSD/P-System, and CPM/86. Soon thereafter, we saw XENIX, QUNIX, Concurrent C/CPM86, and a slew of other operating systems. If Bill Gates had the idea that he "helped" create Open Source, as we know it today, he did so because he still had to compete during that time period. A lesson he should try to remember, today.
As for the "real" father(s) of Open Source, as we know it today, I would nominate Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss. Both of them created the world's first BBS, CBBS. Ward also created the X-modem file transfer protocol, and Randy later created one of the first public USENET nodes in the country. BBS's provided the framework under which tranfers of files first became onto the radar screen of the public eye. Earlier programs were distributed in source form, not for openness per se, but because it difficult, if not impossible to produce a binary that would run on most machines. You had to be open. The "virus" was born. Well, probably earlier, but that was before my time.;-) Mr. Gates probably faced this problem earlier on his career, while his basic interpreter was "pirated" to machines that his company did not ship binaries for. Probably faced it again, as an executable written for on a TI PC would not run on a COMPAQ PC, both running MS/DOS.
Mr. Gates, IMHO, no human being has done more to impede and retard the advancement of computing technology than yourself. Think for a moment how much M$ spends every year on R&D. Look what you have to show for it. Look at the production of NEW ideas in the 60's through the 80's. Then look at the 90's. The reason Open Source thrives is to spite you. Even though you have succeeded in driving every worthy commercial competitor into the ground, we will not stand for it. We demand that our machines ability to do work for us follow the Moore curve, and not the curve of your burgeoning empire. We demand choice. We demand the ability to make up our own minds. We will innovate. As much as you try, we will see our own vision, and not the one you attempt to impose.
Nothing stopping you, go ahead, do it! I've been running multi-boots for years. Nothing beats running each O/S you're interested in, and determining for yourself what suits you best. Running multi-boots are also very handy if you are running development versions of an O/S. If the new version really craps out, boot the stable version, do your repairs, and you're back in business.
Jeez, I won't even set it that low for my personal machine. For the purposes of this kind of benchmark, I would have at least started with 128. If you want to be fair in I/O benchmarks, have BOTH machines mount the filesystems asynch. If you're going to do a comparison, at least compare apples to apples. Softupdates rocks, but I still think async is going to be faster.
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The numbers have probably changed since I last ran them, but last I looked, in terms of the raw compute power available on a cluster, {Linux/BSD/Solaris} delivered almost twice as many usable processing cycles as a Windows solution. No matter what, the windowing system was consuming a fair number of cycles even when not in use. Has this changed or has it gotten worse under XP?
Wasn't this this the "spam" arm of NSI?
Dear Mr. Dirk Mueller and Mr. Jeff Waugh:
The ACME Sales Corporation is proud to announce a solution to your problems. The XJ19 Laser tatoo removal kit. It will even remove the "Sucker" tatoos clearly emblazended upon your foreheads. How did you get conned into taking these jobs? Cat hearding is easy in comparison to the tasks you each wield. For only $99.95, and three sacrificial rubber chickens, we will gladly send you our kit.
But seriously, thanks for all the fish!
Satan is staring incredulously at the ceiling, as icicles begin to form. He calls over one of his assistants and asks, "What happened? Did the Cubs win the penant?" "No", his assistant replies, "Worse, Verizon is on the other side now." Stunned, Satan picks up the phone and dials. "Hello, Mr. Powell, I have a problem I need you to solve." A smile comes to his face, as he places the handset down.
some folks sure are going to get a shocking bill next month.
I see that we have extensive lists of the artists of the past 20 years, but electronic music goes back much further than that. May I recommend a oen to start with? Morton Subotnick would be a great example. A DVD of his work from 1969 and 1978 was recently released, "Volume 1: Electronic Works". This is some of pioneering work in multi-channel sound reproduction.
Has anyone compared the probability for survival of an open source project to the probability of survival for a closed source project? I suspect that the results might be interesting.
I don't know if this existed earlier, but this was an undocumented instruction for the MC6800 processor. Supposedly, it was meant as a manufacturing test. The only way to reset it was a power cycle of the processor.
This goes way back, but if memory serves correct the original PC-Basic 1.0 interpreter, that was shipped with PC/DOS 1.0, would report that 1 + 1 = 1.999999. Needless to say version 1.1 was shipped shortly thereafter.
Bernie, I thought you never posted to slashdot. ;-)
You must be a Sprint customer. Join the club. ;-
A couple of things:
1) If memory serves correct, hydrogen ( hence Tritium ) never becomes a solid under normal pressure. It would need to be put under intense pressure to reach the solid state. It also will become metallic under these conditions.
2) If you think Tritium is expensive, just try to figure out how much anti-matter costs. Currently, it would work out to many Trillions of dollars per gram.
The name of the system was CBBS, created by Randy Seuss and Ward Christensen. Ward was also the creator of the Xmodem protocol. The original phone # was 312-545-8086, and later 847-545-8086. It was offline for some time, unless someone has resurrected it. If memory serves correct, it was an S-100 machine, definately pre-PC. The CBBS "community" migrated to chinet ( A machine run by Randy Seuss, an AT&T 3B2/300, one of the first USENET nodes in Chicago ) in the mid 1980's.
IMHO, many of the roots of the open software movement originated in the original BBS community.
I'm really fuzzy on this, but wasn't there a follow-on to Plan 9 being developed by the name of Brazil? What happened to it?
and the peasants are starting to figure it out. As for those who say Microsoft is too big to crash, wouldn't that have been said about Quest, Enron, Arthur Andersen, Worldcom, Xerox, etc., etc., not so long ago? Amazing how quickly the world can change.
Speaking as previous long time user of CBBS ( the birthplace of Xmodem ), I will point out that Xmodem enjoyed a great acceptance in the BBS community prior to adoption of support for Kermit. Early versions of Kermit were extremely inefficient compared to Xmodem, but it was the only game in town if you were interested in tranfers to and from MVS mainframes. Kermit quickly ruled the domain of inter-architecture tranfers, while XModem, and it's derivatives quickly dominated the PC domain.
:->
And years later, there was the legendary KA9Q code.
I would also recommend DeMarco's "Controlling Software Projects" along with "Peopleware" in regards to this line of thought.
In the NYT article, it states:
"Although data in many different formats was encoded on punch cards over the years, much was encoded in the standard Ascii text format and can easily be transferred to modern computer files with the right equipment."
Maybe I was hanging out with the wrong people in my youth, but all the punchcards I pounded out were EBCDIC.
Although Edward is an amazing individual, you might just want to read his autobiography ( Just published recently, ISBN 0-7382-0532-X ). Of particular note is Edward's perspective of just what happened with regards to his testimony about Robert Oppenheimer. This is now the second book I recommend to aspiring scientists, after Galileo's "Dialogue on the Two World Systems". Both are incredible insights to the world we really live in.
RCS to CVS to arch, same story, a decade later. However, arch is far more competively priced. ;-)
Kibology predates alt.religion.kibology by quite some time. Find the first postings to alt.religion.subgenius, for a true beginning. James "Kibo" Perry was quite a presence back then, along with the legendary Henry Spencer from utzoo.
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Tiger Direct, aka, Global Computer, aka SystemMax. I'm sure they have a few more names, probably from acquisitions that have been made over the years. I been buying stuff from them for years, and so far, I don't have any complaints. In fact, I've gotten some damn good deals at the Global clearance center located off Route 59, in Naperville, Illinois.
IBM wanted the PC to support multiple operating systems. Within a year of release, IBM was shipping PC/DOS, UCSD/P-System, and CPM/86. Soon thereafter, we saw XENIX, QUNIX, Concurrent C/CPM86, and a slew of other operating systems. If Bill Gates had the idea that he "helped" create Open Source, as we know it today, he did so because he still had to compete during that time period. A lesson he should try to remember, today.
;-) Mr. Gates probably faced this problem earlier on his career, while his basic interpreter was "pirated" to machines that his company did not ship binaries for. Probably faced it again, as an executable written for on a TI PC would not run on a COMPAQ PC, both running MS/DOS.
As for the "real" father(s) of Open Source, as we know it today, I would nominate Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss. Both of them created the world's first BBS, CBBS. Ward also created the X-modem file transfer protocol, and Randy later created one of the first public USENET nodes in the country. BBS's provided the framework under which tranfers of files first became onto the radar screen of the public eye. Earlier programs were distributed in source form, not for openness per se, but because it difficult, if not impossible to produce a binary that would run on most machines. You had to be open. The "virus" was born. Well, probably earlier, but that was before my time.
Mr. Gates, IMHO, no human being has done more to impede and retard the advancement of computing technology than yourself. Think for a moment how much M$ spends every year on R&D. Look what you have to show for it. Look at the production of NEW ideas in the 60's through the 80's. Then look at the 90's. The reason Open Source thrives is to spite you. Even though you have succeeded in driving every worthy commercial competitor into the ground, we will not stand for it. We demand that our machines ability to do work for us follow the Moore curve, and not the curve of your burgeoning empire. We demand choice. We demand the ability to make up our own minds. We will innovate. As much as you try, we will see our own vision, and not the one you attempt to impose.
Nothing stopping you, go ahead, do it! I've been running multi-boots for years. Nothing beats running each O/S you're interested in, and determining for yourself what suits you best. Running multi-boots are also very handy if you are running development versions of an O/S. If the new version really craps out, boot the stable version, do your repairs, and you're back in business.
MAXUSERS was set to 20!!
Jeez, I won't even set it that low for my personal machine. For the purposes of this kind of benchmark, I would have at least started with 128. If you want to be fair in I/O benchmarks, have BOTH machines mount the filesystems asynch. If you're going to do a comparison, at least compare apples to apples. Softupdates rocks, but I still think async is going to be faster.