How about using fibre channel? Its already an established standard. The actual hard drives are getting very cheap. I see 9 gig fibre channel drives for around $100 at some places. Unfortunately the cost of the controller is like $500.
Then invest in a decent SGI with a 64bit MIPS cpu or an Alpha with 8 meg of cache on the cpu. Stop wasting your time with x86. My 40mhz Sparc compiles things just as fast as my p75.
He doesn't seem angry at all. You are the who's getting pissed off when people point out flaws in linux. Yes get used to it, LINUX DOES HAVE FLAWS. Its not perfect otherwise everyone who has a packard bell and uses aol would have it.
Check out what this guy has to say on the subject, after all he should know.
The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of "liberalism" they will adopt EVERY fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. (Former Socialist Presidential Candidate) - Norman Thomas
Why would I even waste time going to his website? Didn't he invent the internet? Anyone who lies as blatantly as he does shouldn't get a second of my time. Which brings me to my second thought. If a lawyer perjures himself, he usually gets disbarred. Clinton was fined $90,000 in the Paula Jones lawsuit for committing perjury. Shouldn't he have been disbarred?
Sun hardware is extremely reliable and well designed. Sure it costs a lot for something like ram, but its guaranteed to work no matter what, no questions asked. Solaris is a great OS, they created NFS and it scales just as well as irix. Need a second cpu? Just install it. No need to change or configure anything. I have an old Sparc2 running OpenBSD 2.4 sitting here and its about the most stable box around. In over a year NOTHING has EVER CRASHED. *nothing* Not one app, not the OS. For anything mission critical x86 is not the answer. Pixar didn't render toy story 2 on sun boxes for the hell of it.
5 Serial3-1-0.GW2.PIT1.ALTER.NET (157.130.33.21) 25.287 ms 24.942 ms 26.322 ms 6 Serial3-1-0.GW2.PIT1.ALTER.NET (157.130.33.21) 26.5 ms !H * 28.314 ms !H
well maybe its just alter.net, 100% packet loss is a good day for them.
Making a windows client is their top priority because its their main customer base. They don't make money for joe user, they make money from selling the server or a licensed clients to a big corporation. They can't make any money from the linux client. I know that none of you here would pay for it, and thats a shame. Their product is good because they put money and R&D into it. Thats why they charge for software.
You are comparing G4 cpu's to 8 year old crays. Well duh after 8 years the new computers will be faster. In 8 years the average desktop computer will be faster than todays super computers.
You can't force people to get along with one another. Look at nature, do you see the crows hanging out with the pigeons? No. You can't force me to like black people. Ever notice when a white guy kills a black guy, its called a hate crime. When a black guy kills a white guy its not a hate crime. The black guy gets his free government public defender and claims it was "black rage". Hey I didn't force you to kill that guy. That was all you.
Why in the hell would I watch mpegs thru a remote X session? I'm talking about files on a local drive in two seperate operating systems. X just happens to be slow on the desktop, it wasn't meant for high end multimedia. It displays remote xterms fine and some programs, but forget anything serious.
I'm saying they should stop bashing everything not related to linux or opensource. Want to bash a non opensource linux app? Look at the mpegtv player. They sell binaries and not the source!! those bastards, how dare they charge money for code that should be free.
I'll start. FreeBSD uses a multi threaded tcp/ip stack where linux's is single threaded. Only in the 2.3.xx devel kernels are they experimenting with threads. That explains why linux came in last on the performance benchmark that CNN just ran. They noticed linux would slow down and stop when it got hit with a heavy load. My opinion of the tcp/ip stack being better is based on yahoo and cdrom.com. If linux is so much faster, don't you think they would have switched over?
If he had mentioned that about linux it would be marked as flamebait so fast. It figures he's a linux zealot, look at the propaganda.themes.org link. But until someone makes a site identical to ftp.cdrom.com that runs linux I will always believe that *BSD has a superior tcp/ip stack compared to linux.
Lets state the facts here, Xanim quite frankly sucks. Sure it can play postage sized quicktime movies with 4 year old codecs, but nothing recent like mpeg or asf. Sure theres that mpegtv player for linux, its better but its SLOW compared with windows. It gets around 15fps on an mpeg encoded at 30. I'm suprised you havn't blasted them for not making it opensource. MS media player works great on windows and its free. Maybe Xanim would be better if someone actually bought the docs for the codecs and some money got involved. Oh wait, money doesn't mean anything to you. Free this free that, how do you expect a company to make any money? Before you shout redhat and va linux you should look at their stocks. Redhat won't be making money for another few years.
Its all about money. Thats why you don't see realplayer releasing windows and linux players at the same time. Their linux development is on the back burner. The majority of the people who buy realplayer are companies, which still use windows on the desktop. So if 95% of their clients buy windows players, why should they give linux development an equal amount of money?
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he tried to install one app and gave up thinking it was the fault of the OS.
How about using fibre channel? Its already an established standard. The actual hard drives are getting very cheap. I see 9 gig fibre channel drives for around $100 at some places. Unfortunately the cost of the controller is like $500.
Then invest in a decent SGI with a 64bit MIPS cpu or an Alpha with 8 meg of cache on the cpu. Stop wasting your time with x86. My 40mhz Sparc compiles things just as fast as my p75.
He doesn't seem angry at all. You are the who's getting pissed off when people point out flaws in linux. Yes get used to it, LINUX DOES HAVE FLAWS. Its not perfect otherwise everyone who has a packard bell and uses aol would have it.
I think its pretty damn funny. Wheres your sense of humor?
Check out what this guy has to say on the subject, after all he should know.
The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of "liberalism" they will adopt EVERY fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. (Former Socialist Presidential Candidate) - Norman Thomas
Why would I even waste time going to his website? Didn't he invent the internet? Anyone who lies as blatantly as he does shouldn't get a second of my time. Which brings me to my second thought. If a lawyer perjures himself, he usually gets disbarred. Clinton was fined $90,000 in the Paula Jones lawsuit for committing perjury. Shouldn't he have been disbarred?
His patents on numerous turbine designs. Some don't even have blades! He was also an excellant mechanical engineer.
So DC is somehow less dangerous than AC? Whats dangerous is the amount of current, not the voltage or type.
Sun hardware is extremely reliable and well designed. Sure it costs a lot for something like ram, but its guaranteed to work no matter what, no questions asked. Solaris is a great OS, they created NFS and it scales just as well as irix. Need a second cpu? Just install it. No need to change or configure anything. I have an old Sparc2 running OpenBSD 2.4 sitting here and its about the most stable box around. In over a year NOTHING has EVER CRASHED. *nothing* Not one app, not the OS. For anything mission critical x86 is not the answer. Pixar didn't render toy story 2 on sun boxes for the hell of it.
5 Serial3-1-0.GW2.PIT1.ALTER.NET (157.130.33.21) 25.287 ms 24.942 ms 26.322 ms
6 Serial3-1-0.GW2.PIT1.ALTER.NET (157.130.33.21) 26.5 ms !H * 28.314 ms !H
well maybe its just alter.net, 100% packet loss is a good day for them.
seriously
I don't care that some company takes my code and uses it. At least its doing some good because other people are benefitting.
probably does more harm than good. Need a smurfable subnet? they have a list of the 2048 worst offenders.
Making a windows client is their top priority because its their main customer base. They don't make money for joe user, they make money from selling the server or a licensed clients to a big corporation. They can't make any money from the linux client. I know that none of you here would pay for it, and thats a shame. Their product is good because they put money and R&D into it. Thats why they charge for software.
for bootlegging concerts. Small and make excellant quality recordings. Who cares that sony won't release the specs? What use are they to you?
You are comparing G4 cpu's to 8 year old crays. Well duh after 8 years the new computers will be faster. In 8 years the average desktop computer will be faster than todays super computers.
You can't force people to get along with one another. Look at nature, do you see the crows hanging out with the pigeons? No. You can't force me to like black people. Ever notice when a white guy kills a black guy, its called a hate crime. When a black guy kills a white guy its not a hate crime. The black guy gets his free government public defender and claims it was "black rage". Hey I didn't force you to kill that guy. That was all you.
Why in the hell would I watch mpegs thru a remote X session? I'm talking about files on a local drive in two seperate operating systems. X just happens to be slow on the desktop, it wasn't meant for high end multimedia. It displays remote xterms fine and some programs, but forget anything serious.
I'm saying they should stop bashing everything not related to linux or opensource. Want to bash a non opensource linux app? Look at the mpegtv player. They sell binaries and not the source!! those bastards, how dare they charge money for code that should be free.
I'll start. FreeBSD uses a multi threaded tcp/ip stack where linux's is single threaded. Only in the 2.3.xx devel kernels are they experimenting with threads. That explains why linux came in last on the performance benchmark that CNN just ran. They noticed linux would slow down and stop when it got hit with a heavy load. My opinion of the tcp/ip stack being better is based on yahoo and cdrom.com. If linux is so much faster, don't you think they would have switched over?
If he had mentioned that about linux it would be marked as flamebait so fast. It figures he's a linux zealot, look at the propaganda.themes.org link. But until someone makes a site identical to ftp.cdrom.com that runs linux I will always believe that *BSD has a superior tcp/ip stack compared to linux.
Lets state the facts here, Xanim quite frankly sucks. Sure it can play postage sized quicktime movies with 4 year old codecs, but nothing recent like mpeg or asf. Sure theres that mpegtv player for linux, its better but its SLOW compared with windows. It gets around 15fps on an mpeg encoded at 30. I'm suprised you havn't blasted them for not making it opensource. MS media player works great on windows and its free. Maybe Xanim would be better if someone actually bought the docs for the codecs and some money got involved. Oh wait, money doesn't mean anything to you. Free this free that, how do you expect a company to make any money? Before you shout redhat and va linux you should look at their stocks. Redhat won't be making money for another few years.
Until someone sets up an indentical server running linux that performs better, I will believe FreeBSD has a faster tcp/ip stack.
Its all about money. Thats why you don't see realplayer releasing windows and linux players at the same time. Their linux development is on the back burner. The majority of the people who buy realplayer are companies, which still use windows on the desktop. So if 95% of their clients buy windows players, why should they give linux development an equal amount of money?