Maybe they meant that Linux doesn't run on the G5 at all yet, and the only company that seems to be interested in Linux on the G5 (Terra Soft) is a pretty small player.
Interconnectivity will be done with Cisco equipment, among the onboard gigabit LANs. Infiniband cards will also eventually be installed for 10 Gbit throughput. (emphasis added)
I'm just pointing out that since they'll be relying on the onboard Ethernet for now, hopefully the G5 has better Ethernet performance than previous Macs. You're right that it won't matter once they get InfiniBand working.
RSS is a great replacement for one-way email newsletters (many of which just say "here's what's new on our site this week" -- exactly what RSS was designed for), but it's not useful for interactive mailing lists. Some people have claimed that RSS reader software will eventually be able to thread weblog posts into coherent mailing-list-like conversations, but I haven't seen it yet.
My favorite trick is when the professor writes the textbook for his class and then has you write all your homework solutions in the book. Sorry, you can't sell a book that's been written all over...
In that case it will never work. If every piece of software can be run on N computers then businesses will buy 1/Nth as many copies, software companies will increase the price by a factor of N, and then home users won't be able to afford it. If you try to solve it by making a distinction among fields of use (home vs. business users) then I think you've just replaced one problem with another one.
User-based licensing is great for individuals and some companies; Sun appears to be getting traction on this model for its Orion software stack.
But user-based licensing tends to seriously hurt organizations that have more users than computers -- particularly universities. If you have 50,000 users and only 5,000 computers, you don't want to pay for 50,000 licenses.
Actually, I believe DARPA envisions using TRIPS as a general-purpose high-end embedded CPU; think radar signal processing, surveillance imaging, general control tasks, etc. I think they looked at all the different kinds of CPUs in tanks and fighters and said "wouldn't it be nice if one kind of CPU could so everything?"
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Maybe they meant that Linux doesn't run on the G5 at all yet, and the only company that seems to be interested in Linux on the G5 (Terra Soft) is a pretty small player.
If a service:
Provides you with a PSTN phone number and
Allows you to call the PSTN and
Allows anyone on the PSTN to call you
then it is de facto a telephone service.
If you really want to spur the growth of VoIP, just deregulate all CLECs.
Uh yeah, because accessing publicly-available information over SSL is such a security risk. Not.
People don't buy macs as "gaming machines".
Not everyone has the luxury of buying a separate gaming machine.
From what i've seen, mac's are primarily used by a few types of users..
And the Myst series of games tends to appeal to people other than traditional gamers.
There are three novels set in the Myst/D'ni world, and they provide a lot of context for the games.
No, realMyst uses the realMyst engine. Uru is based on a more advanced version of the realMyst engine.
From Coocha's post:
Interconnectivity will be done with Cisco equipment, among the onboard gigabit LANs. Infiniband cards will also eventually be installed for 10 Gbit throughput. (emphasis added)
I'm just pointing out that since they'll be relying on the onboard Ethernet for now, hopefully the G5 has better Ethernet performance than previous Macs. You're right that it won't matter once they get InfiniBand working.
The HP xw4100 with Linux preloaded looks more like a real computer.
Let's hope you can get more than 600Mbps on the G5's Ethernet port.
Wow, I thought I was the only one who thinks that MPlayer's GUI is broken on OS X. Long live VLC...
RSS is a great replacement for one-way email newsletters (many of which just say "here's what's new on our site this week" -- exactly what RSS was designed for), but it's not useful for interactive mailing lists. Some people have claimed that RSS reader software will eventually be able to thread weblog posts into coherent mailing-list-like conversations, but I haven't seen it yet.
My favorite trick is when the professor writes the textbook for his class and then has you write all your homework solutions in the book. Sorry, you can't sell a book that's been written all over...
In that case it will never work. If every piece of software can be run on N computers then businesses will buy 1/Nth as many copies, software companies will increase the price by a factor of N, and then home users won't be able to afford it. If you try to solve it by making a distinction among fields of use (home vs. business users) then I think you've just replaced one problem with another one.
Software isn't patentable; algorithms are.
User-based licensing is great for individuals and some companies; Sun appears to be getting traction on this model for its Orion software stack.
But user-based licensing tends to seriously hurt organizations that have more users than computers -- particularly universities. If you have 50,000 users and only 5,000 computers, you don't want to pay for 50,000 licenses.
Too bad distributed.net is completely unrepresentative of scientific applications (or any real applications for that matter).
Does Linux run on the G5 yet? I've seen no mention of it on linuxppc64-dev or linux-kernel.
The problem is the larger the cache size, the slower the access time. It is a trade off.
The TRIPS team has solved that with NUCA.
See the "chip rework process" section on page 8 of An advanced multichip module (MCM) for high-performance UNIX servers, IBM Journal of R & D, Vol. 46, No. 6, 2002.
Check out the Power4 HPC sometime. Or the Celeron.
The prototype is going to have four cores; a final version could have as many as 16.
Actually, I believe DARPA envisions using TRIPS as a general-purpose high-end embedded CPU; think radar signal processing, surveillance imaging, general control tasks, etc. I think they looked at all the different kinds of CPUs in tanks and fighters and said "wouldn't it be nice if one kind of CPU could so everything?"
Xcode is just an IDE for GCC; it's not a separate compiler.
You can't attach two drives to one SATA cable; problem solved.