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You can get Windows Binaries Here. If you notice, they provide no binaries for any operating system on their website. There is probably some legal reasons for this. The LAME MP3 encoder also provides no Windows Binaries on their site, yet LAME is a very popular MP3 encoder simply because it is superior to the commercial ones.
Since the UltraSparc IV is really just two UltraSparc III's, and those were considered underpowered compared to the processors coming out at the same time. Sun's chip "strategy" is starting to remind me more and more like 3dfx's Voodoo "strategy" before they went belly up. They think they can fix their processing power crisis by putting more an more old designs together.
Michael Dell is a smart man, to be stepping down from his CEO position while his company is doing well. The problem with young companies is that the sucessful ones often have a visionary, a leader. It's the first name you associate with the company. The problem with these companies is they are linked to that person. Look at Martha Stewart's company, it has had problem since her legal problems.
No one ever said that Bill Gates was a stupid man. He is very smart, and he knows that he is not immortal. By stepping aside, like Michael Dell has done now, he's showing investors and customers that the company will live on even after they leave.
The classic example is Oracle, where Larry Ellison is Oracle and Oracle is Larry Ellison. The problem with that is Larry likes extreme sports, he places himself in high risk situation very often. Him dieing could put the company in a tail spin in the stock market. Customers could lose faith, and the company would be sallowed up by a larger firm. Larry's had lieutenants who could have taken over for him. However, his unwillingness to leave his position caused them to look for better jobs elsewhere. Instead, now he has people who will not challenge him, and people who he might not trust to run the company.
I applaud Michael Dell for doing this, and also not naming his company Michael Dell Corp.:)
Microsoft this time isn't in a rush to get to market.
They are taking the time, to put a console together,
rather than putting a PC into something that acts like
a console. I believe, Microsoft is trying to avoid all
the "X-Box 2 is yet another cheap PC" thoughts. That would
allow them to look at something other than the Intel Pentium
route or the AMD route (which iirc, nearly won the X-Box bid).
For consumer level processors with good performance outside
of Intel and AMD, there really only IBM. IBM most likely competed
with Intel and AMD for the processor bid, but IBM is rarely in
the "close to cost"
business. What publicity there is would be minimal.
IBM was already in the Game Cube, and there is not much publicity from that.
The bigger news is the IBM will be powering all three
next generation consoles.
As of late IBM's chip division has kind been seen only as a high-end server/supercomputer thing. Thier midrange market is almost non existant and their embedded market has been shrinking. Well the 970 is a serious midrange contender and I'm sure they want people to know it.
"midrange" is a very subjective term. IBM has been making some of the G3s for Apple for some time. However, it is true that IBM processors generally go into their servers (This isn't limited to just "high-end" and supercomputers). You can buy a IBM p615 with a real POWER 4+ processor for a relatively affordable (depending on what you consider relatively affordable) price of $5745. But I do agree that their consumer processor business as well as embedded market has been shrinking.
Albiet that statement is hardly true for HP, as they try to move all their customers to either Itanium or x86.
IBM is in a much better position than HP. The Power 4 processor from IBM still maintains backwards compatibility all the way to their PPC 604e's. In the past, Sun and TI may have been able to make a good processor. Many people were eagerly waiting for the UltraSparc 3, since the USparc 2s had been suffering computing performance wise for some time. Instead of getting a processor that was competitive with others, we got the USparc 3. Soon after that, the normally secretive processor roadmap was discussed to try to appease current Sun customers that they would be fixing the computing discrepency. Even though we all know that benchmarkings are seriously flawed, "incredible throughput" and "perform very well" aren't metrics which you can compare the systems from these different manufacturers.
In 2004, we will see how well the USparc 4 will perform economically for Sun.
Anyone needing more than 8 CPU's ? Seriously, go to IBM/HP/Dell and then try to configure a system that has the same capacity as something from Sun. When you reach the same specs, you will most probably have the same price.
That doesn't take into account that the current generation of UltraSparc processors (not the US4 which was just announced), suck in comparision to Itanium 2 and Power 4. Those companies willing to spend a few million on just one system, they want the fastest one.
Sun's sweet spot is still the mid-level systems, where they can still make a profit (unlike the commoditized low-end). By this time next year we'll all see how Sun, HP, and IBM do with their next generation processors out in the marketplace.
This isn't actually what they are claiming to be infringing. Because they are claiming the infringement is 2.4.1-01, this is in reference to the RCU patch against 2.4.1. Available here http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rcu/patches/rcl ock-2.4.1-01.patch
I wouldn't be suprised if Microsoft decides to start putting these patches on the game discs themselves. The first time you load the game, it patches your system. Of course, me writing this could very well give them that idea.
Fabbing the chip is only one part of the things. It'd probably be cheaper for Sony to have Toshiba to make the chips themselves, since any IBM chip will probably come from America and need to be shipped to Japan for final assembly. The 65-nanometer (isn't it funny we all moved from micron to nanometer now) process is most likely IBM's. I would be suprised if it weren't SOI and a number of other IBM owned manufacturing techniques. The basic PowerPC chip design is probably from IBM. Then add on the additional work for for the Cell itself. IBM has a slice of the pie. Toshiba gets a nice fab plant. Sony gets a processor.
S/390 is a big endian system. Any code that processes byte-oriented data that originated on a little endian system may need some byte-swapping. The data may have to be regenerated or, if that isn't possible (for example, shared files), the application may have to be reworked to adjust for processing little endian data.
Often the difference in Intel versus mainframe applications makes porting difficult(10).
(10) Intel uses something known as little endian; a mainframe uses something different. This is significant for certain applications and makes the port difficult.
Endianness hasn't stopped people from porting application to SUN's big-endian sparcs.
If you have source code still using libtool 1.3.5 or lower. IBM's Linux Toolbox has a version of libtool which can build most libtool applications. You'll just need to run libtoolize --force, on the source to update it to their 1.3.5a. Check IBM's site for the libtool RPMs. They have a bunch of gtk+ apps in packages already.
The IBM p690 server uses POWER4 processors. Each
chip has 2 POWER cores with high-speed interconnects. Even better is that each chip is connected to 3 other chips to make up 8 CPU packs.
IBM file patents because it makes them money. IBM held the patent for the blinking cursor for a long time. The blinking cursor patent made them a lot of money. I wouldn't be surprised if the IBM employees who filed that patent in 1998 (a long time ago in Internet Time), exposure to web authoring was limited to writing a webpage in an editor that worked in mosaic. The fault is in the patent office for taking such a stupid patent.
What would the world be like with a + sign? Scary, but I think it's just the people at yahoo who seems to want this. http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=int ernetnews&StoryID=257307 shows the @ that we all know and love.
Let's analyze this article a little. First off, there is only 3 quotes from IBM officials.
"We are happy and comfortable with the idea that Linux can become the successor not just for AIX but for all Unix operating systems," The key words in there is "can become." IBM's Linux strategy is not to be left out of Linux if Linux takes over the world. IBM understands that Linux could be the defacto standard for all hardware, from their own pSeries to Suns, and SGIs.
Linux can be adapted to just about anything out there Isn't this quote just stating a fact about Linux? Given enough time and personpower, AIX can do just about anything out there as well.
"All types of servers can run on a common Unix operating system. What is not clear is if (the OS) will be Linux. It needs to continue to mature and become a more sophisticated system." The first sentence is a statement of fact, that not only includes IBM but nearly every hardware vendor on the planet. The second, is IBM isn't betting the farm on Linux.
You see more and more poorly written articles, which twist the truth. When Linux grows up, won't every commercial Unix gladly boot their commercial OS for Linux? Possibly. Isn't there better things to do right now than worry what a commercial entity may do in 5 years?
Most of the complaints about KDE in the past is that it is ugly compared to Gnome. Honestly, I think it still is. The font seems too big, and the buttons are definately too big. I think GTK theme support is an attempt to quiet those critics. I personally haven't been impressed with any of the screenshots. They still look like themed QT widgets...
Perl has always been nice to do short, but powerful code. Even large projects can be done with Perl. However what I detest most about coding in Perl has always been how to implement OO. It would be terrific if there was a more elegant way to implement OO. Perl's OO seems like it was simply a graph on top of the modules system.
Hurd is not currently versioned as Potato. The binary-hurd-i386 directory in the potato dir is a symlink to sid (the kid next door). It's for ports which aren't even stable enough to be unstable.
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You can get Windows Binaries Here. If you notice, they provide no binaries for any operating system on their website. There is probably some legal reasons for this. The LAME MP3 encoder also provides no Windows Binaries on their site, yet LAME is a very popular MP3 encoder simply because it is superior to the commercial ones.
I believe IBM was convicted, but the IBM lawyers dragged out the suit so long that IBM was no longer a monopoly.
Since the UltraSparc IV is really just two UltraSparc III's, and those were considered underpowered compared to the processors coming out at the same time. Sun's chip "strategy" is starting to remind me more and more like 3dfx's Voodoo "strategy" before they went belly up. They think they can fix their processing power crisis by putting more an more old designs together.
No one ever said that Bill Gates was a stupid man. He is very smart, and he knows that he is not immortal. By stepping aside, like Michael Dell has done now, he's showing investors and customers that the company will live on even after they leave.
The classic example is Oracle, where Larry Ellison is Oracle and Oracle is Larry Ellison. The problem with that is Larry likes extreme sports, he places himself in high risk situation very often. Him dieing could put the company in a tail spin in the stock market. Customers could lose faith, and the company would be sallowed up by a larger firm. Larry's had lieutenants who could have taken over for him. However, his unwillingness to leave his position caused them to look for better jobs elsewhere. Instead, now he has people who will not challenge him, and people who he might not trust to run the company.
I applaud Michael Dell for doing this, and also not naming his company Michael Dell Corp. :)
As of late IBM's chip division has kind been seen only as a high-end server/supercomputer thing. Thier midrange market is almost non existant and their embedded market has been shrinking. Well the 970 is a serious midrange contender and I'm sure they want people to know it.
"midrange" is a very subjective term. IBM has been making some of the G3s for Apple for some time. However, it is true that IBM processors generally go into their servers (This isn't limited to just "high-end" and supercomputers). You can buy a IBM p615 with a real POWER 4+ processor for a relatively affordable (depending on what you consider relatively affordable) price of $5745. But I do agree that their consumer processor business as well as embedded market has been shrinking.
IBM is in a much better position than HP. The Power 4 processor from IBM still maintains backwards compatibility all the way to their PPC 604e's. In the past, Sun and TI may have been able to make a good processor. Many people were eagerly waiting for the UltraSparc 3, since the USparc 2s had been suffering computing performance wise for some time. Instead of getting a processor that was competitive with others, we got the USparc 3. Soon after that, the normally secretive processor roadmap was discussed to try to appease current Sun customers that they would be fixing the computing discrepency. Even though we all know that benchmarkings are seriously flawed, "incredible throughput" and "perform very well" aren't metrics which you can compare the systems from these different manufacturers.
In 2004, we will see how well the USparc 4 will perform economically for Sun.
That doesn't take into account that the current generation of UltraSparc processors (not the US4 which was just announced), suck in comparision to Itanium 2 and Power 4. Those companies willing to spend a few million on just one system, they want the fastest one.
Sun's sweet spot is still the mid-level systems, where they can still make a profit (unlike the commoditized low-end). By this time next year we'll all see how Sun, HP, and IBM do with their next generation processors out in the marketplace.
This isn't actually what they are claiming to be infringing. Because they are claiming the infringement is 2.4.1-01, this is in reference to the RCU patch against 2.4.1. Available here http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rcu/patches/rcl ock-2.4.1-01.patch
/*
/*
diff -u --recursive --new-file 2.4.1/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c v2.4.1-rc/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c
--- 2.4.1/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c Wed Dec 6 02:13:48 2000
+++ v2.4.1-rc/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c Tue Feb 20 16:46:33 2001
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/mc146818rtc.h>
#include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
+#ifdef CONFIG_RCLOCK
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/rclock.h>
+#endif
+
#include <asm/smp.h>
#include <asm/mtrr.h>
@@ -654,6 +659,10 @@
{
int user = user_mode(regs);
int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+#ifdef CONFIG_RCLOCK
+ int cpunum = cpu_number_map(cpu);
+#endif
+
* The profiling function is SMP safe. (nothing can mess
@@ -663,6 +672,17 @@
*/
if (!user)
x86_do_profile(regs->eip);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_RCLOCK
+ if (((RC_PLOCAL_rclockcurlist(cpunum) != NULL) &&
+ RC_GEN_LT(RC_PLOCAL_rclockgen(cpunum), rc_ctrlblk.curgen)) ||
+ (RC_PLOCAL_rclockcurlist(cpunum) == NULL &&
+ RC_PLOCAL_rclocknxtlist(cpunum) != NULL) ||
+ test_bit(cpunum, &rc_ctrlblk.needctxtmask) ||
+ ((jiffies - rc_ctrlblk.clock) > RCLOCK_STALL_WARN))
+ rc_chk_callbacks(user || (current == init_tasks[cpunum]));
+#endif
+
if (--prof_counter[cpu] <= 0) {
Babylon 5 was never cancelled! It was only meant to be 5 seasons, and the first 4 were shown in syndication and the 5th on TNT.
I wouldn't be suprised if Microsoft decides to start putting these patches on the game discs themselves. The first time you load the game, it patches your system. Of course, me writing this could very well give them that idea.
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Fabbing the chip is only one part of the things. It'd probably be cheaper for Sony to have Toshiba to make the chips themselves, since any IBM chip will probably come from America and need to be shipped to Japan for final assembly. The 65-nanometer (isn't it funny we all moved from micron to nanometer now) process is most likely IBM's. I would be suprised if it weren't SOI and a number of other IBM owned manufacturing techniques. The basic PowerPC chip design is probably from IBM. Then add on the additional work for for the Cell itself. IBM has a slice of the pie. Toshiba gets a nice fab plant. Sony gets a processor.
If you have source code still using libtool 1.3.5 or lower. IBM's Linux Toolbox has a version of libtool which can build most libtool applications. You'll just need to run libtoolize --force, on the source to update it to their 1.3.5a. Check IBM's site for the libtool RPMs. They have a bunch of gtk+ apps in packages already.
The IBM p690 server uses POWER4 processors. Each
chip has 2 POWER cores with high-speed interconnects. Even better is that each chip is connected to 3 other chips to make up 8 CPU packs.
IBM file patents because it makes them money. IBM held the patent for the blinking cursor for a long time. The blinking cursor patent made them a lot of money. I wouldn't be surprised if the IBM employees who filed that patent in 1998 (a long time ago in Internet Time), exposure to web authoring was limited to writing a webpage in an editor that worked in mosaic. The fault is in the patent office for taking such a stupid patent.
Don't you see the foot. Hopefully this means it's not real.
What would the world be like with a + sign? Scary, but I think it's just the people at yahoo who seems to want this. http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=int ernetnews&StoryID=257307 shows the @ that we all know and love.
"We are happy and comfortable with the idea that Linux can become the successor not just for AIX but for all Unix operating systems,"
The key words in there is "can become." IBM's Linux strategy is not to be left out of Linux if Linux takes over the world. IBM understands that Linux could be the defacto standard for all hardware, from their own pSeries to Suns, and SGIs.
Linux can be adapted to just about anything out there Isn't this quote just stating a fact about Linux? Given enough time and personpower, AIX can do just about anything out there as well.
"All types of servers can run on a common Unix operating system. What is not clear is if (the OS) will be Linux. It needs to continue to mature and become a more sophisticated system." The first sentence is a statement of fact, that not only includes IBM but nearly every hardware vendor on the planet. The second, is IBM isn't betting the farm on Linux.
You see more and more poorly written articles, which twist the truth. When Linux grows up, won't every commercial Unix gladly boot their commercial OS for Linux? Possibly. Isn't there better things to do right now than worry what a commercial entity may do in 5 years?
Most of the complaints about KDE in the past is that it is ugly compared to Gnome. Honestly, I think it still is. The font seems too big, and the buttons are definately too big. I think GTK theme support is an attempt to quiet those critics. I personally haven't been impressed with any of the screenshots. They still look like themed QT widgets...
Perl has always been nice to do short, but powerful code. Even large projects can be done with Perl. However what I detest most about coding in Perl has always been how to implement OO. It would be terrific if there was a more elegant way to implement OO. Perl's OO seems like it was simply a graph on top of the modules system.
Where's slashdot on the list?
Hurd is not currently versioned as Potato. The binary-hurd-i386 directory in the potato dir is a symlink to sid (the kid next door). It's for ports which aren't even stable enough to be unstable.