Nvidia has an external PCIe Tesla. I've also seen external GPUs for laptops and I heard something about RED Rocket for laptops that hangs off the ExpressCard slot.
Why can't we have both imperative and declarative support for both 2d and 3d web elements, both backed by access to a DOM?
Declarative 2D (SVG) and 3D (VRML/X3D) exist but virtually no one uses them, so the browser developers aren't going to put much effort into declarative graphics. You can always define your own declarative format (JSON3D anyone?) and write a library to display it using WebGL.
You're about two months ahead of the times. The ATA TRIM command will allow the filesystem to tell the SSD which sectors are used and which are unused. The SSD won't have to preserve any data in unused sectors.
Yes, you must be new to computers since hard disks have had passwords for years. It was a popular feature in the "enterprise" market before full-disk encryption became practical.
Power capping is intended to be used by the server owner; e.g. in a colo that would be the customer, not the provider. You give the customer a circuit and they use capping to fit as many servers as possible on it.
You should set the power cap slightly higher than the server's typical power usage, so the server rarely or never slows down. Also, in corporate IT there is no other provider, so the alternative to power capping is usually to not buy any more servers.
simply sell you power circuits, say 20 amps each for a set price.
This is a great way to waste money. If you don't use power capping, then you'll be paying for 20A but only using 10A-12A if you're lucky. Power capping allows you to use the full 16A that you're paying for.
We have that situation for all other drivers and somehow we survived. Also, it's common for vendors to write a single BSD-licensed driver and then port it to multiple OSes, sharing most of the code.
1. Does this mean you can't login at a graphical interface? I.e. will you have to login at a terminal and then wait for X server to come up?
No. There should be a login X server (running as root or nobody or whatever) to display GDM, then during login this server will exit and launch a new server under your uid. Or something like that.
2. If multiple users login, will each user get their own instance of X server? This seems like overkill...
I think fast user switching already works that way. We don't consider it overkill that each user gets their own instance of Firefox; why is X any different?
Pirates have the advantage that they don't have to pay for patent licenses, so H.264 and Theora are both "free". But for law-abiding companies like Mozilla and Google, Theora is free and H.264 isn't.
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External PCIe x1 isn't that expensive: http://www.magma.com/products/pciexpress/expressbox1/index.html
The x8 version starts to get expensive, though: http://www.magma.com/products/pciexpress/expressbox4-1u/prices.html
Nvidia has an external PCIe Tesla. I've also seen external GPUs for laptops and I heard something about RED Rocket for laptops that hangs off the ExpressCard slot.
Apple doesn't support SLI, and if they wanted to they could "license" it directly from Nvidia.
No, OCZ released wiper, which is a trim tool. Trim and GC are different; in particular, GC requires no tools or OS support.
Why can't we have both imperative and declarative support for both 2d and 3d web elements, both backed by access to a DOM?
Declarative 2D (SVG) and 3D (VRML/X3D) exist but virtually no one uses them, so the browser developers aren't going to put much effort into declarative graphics. You can always define your own declarative format (JSON3D anyone?) and write a library to display it using WebGL.
You're about two months ahead of the times. The ATA TRIM command will allow the filesystem to tell the SSD which sectors are used and which are unused. The SSD won't have to preserve any data in unused sectors.
Not necessarily. An SSD has to collect garbage sometime; whether it GCs proactively or lazily causes the same wear.
All PCs can benefit from SSDs, and they are often idle. Technology isn't just for those who "need" it.
Yes, you must be new to computers since hard disks have had passwords for years. It was a popular feature in the "enterprise" market before full-disk encryption became practical.
In that case, why use Wine at all? Why not just write a pure Linux botnet?
Power capping slows down the server, but it continues running.
The point of power capping is that it doesn't cause any kind of failure; servers just slow down when they reach the cap.
Yes, power capping allows safe oversubscription of power. Honestly, these days if a business isn't overselling they're leaving money on the table.
Power capping is intended to be used by the server owner; e.g. in a colo that would be the customer, not the provider. You give the customer a circuit and they use capping to fit as many servers as possible on it.
You should set the power cap slightly higher than the server's typical power usage, so the server rarely or never slows down. Also, in corporate IT there is no other provider, so the alternative to power capping is usually to not buy any more servers.
simply sell you power circuits, say 20 amps each for a set price.
This is a great way to waste money. If you don't use power capping, then you'll be paying for 20A but only using 10A-12A if you're lucky. Power capping allows you to use the full 16A that you're paying for.
Anagran has a paper on just this topic; they claim to do better than WRED because they track the rate of every TCP connection.
http://www.packet.cc/files/IFD2c.pdf
We have that situation for all other drivers and somehow we survived. Also, it's common for vendors to write a single BSD-licensed driver and then port it to multiple OSes, sharing most of the code.
Yes, it's interesting that KGI was rejected 10 years ago, but now we have KMS. What has changed?
1. Does this mean you can't login at a graphical interface? I.e. will you have to login at a terminal and then wait for X server to come up?
No. There should be a login X server (running as root or nobody or whatever) to display GDM, then during login this server will exit and launch a new server under your uid. Or something like that.
2. If multiple users login, will each user get their own instance of X server? This seems like overkill...
I think fast user switching already works that way. We don't consider it overkill that each user gets their own instance of Firefox; why is X any different?
There aren't any and won't be any because the Linux market is too small.
Pirates have the advantage that they don't have to pay for patent licenses, so H.264 and Theora are both "free". But for law-abiding companies like Mozilla and Google, Theora is free and H.264 isn't.
This failure was fail-stop, not Byzantine.
Here you go.
x264 is an (GPL) encoder. Google is distributing the (LGPL) H.264 decoder included in ffmpeg.