at low rpm, minimum approaches zero. That's the problem with turbo's - they don't do anything until the engine is already running really fast.
I haven't driven a Turbo TT, but in a Subaru WRX, below 2000 rpm the car is just a wimpy 4cyl econobox. At around 2500 RPM it starts to pull and at 4000rpm it's get pretty silly. Grin inducing silly.
Assuming a tall 6th gear on the TT, there would be essentially no turbo boost at hwy speeds, probably around 2500rpm @70mph.
Turns out that running coax through my parents' basement to play DOOM and Duke 3d (the 3rd one...) was good practice for the network of the time. Once you had the IPX stackloaded, you just added netx or vlm...and that copy of Novell I 'found' on a BBS worked like a charm. Anyway the point is you can get experience on your own with just a few PC's (or in my case, my friends PC's lugged over).
Throughout college you should have been installing win2k, NW6, Win2k3, Linux 2.2,2.4, now 2.6, exchange, notes, DNS, eDir, LDAP so you have some depth of experience with these technologies. Apparently you didn't. So maybe you are looking at the wrong field? You can't just declare yourself a networking person, and hope to get hired. What did you work on when you were in college?
If you only have one PC, dual boot. If it's powerful, vmware.
his premise is that developers can make 3 version pretty easily with similar graphics. And that when xbox2 comes out, it will require a different development model. MSFT makes the best dev kits, period. They know how to get poeple to write for their platform, and writing for xbox2 will be SO easy everyone will be doing it. Rem all the complaining about the high price of PS2's kit and how hard it was to use? I wouldn't be surpised if you could put a PS2 CD in an xbox2 dev kit, click one button and have it convert the game to xbox2 format for you.
uh, state school, ~ 5k/yr in tuition and texts. Keep working, do it part time. Graduate in 6 years. Now that's a 30k investment, not 325k...suddenly the payback is a little clearer, isn't it?
I went to a very pricey private school, and still only spent 40k on tuition for 3 years (compressed) to get my 4 year degree.
Nice career you have there: be someone's pet PC tinkerer! I did that in high school, then I moved on.
It sounds like you are talking yourself out of school. You'll get it eventually. No degree, nowhere to go.
Keep computers in your basement as a hobby. I am wrapping up my BS in Business this spring, likely startting MBA next year. Why be Dilbert when you can be the Pointy Haried Boss?
My biggest problem is I am too good at what I do (I build Oracle/MS-SQL DB's for health care facilites). I also make enough money that the ROI on the MBA doesn't look that great. I'll have to work hard on forgetting what I know to be an effective manager. "I heard Mauve has more RAM". heh. Can't wait!
I am getting out of IT. I am planning on running a bicycle store. Mountain bikes, BMX, something for the road weanies. This high flying job is not going to last forever. My toyota is paid for and I live in a 1bed condo that I also own. I am investing in properties, 2 so far, one more this spring, and am in my last class for my B.S. in Business. "Fables and Folktales", the things you do to graduate:) Goes well the engineering AA. Next up MBA, a few more investments and....see ya...
Why be Dilbert when you can be the pointy haired boss?
JON
Oh yeah, my H1B expires June 1, 2007. If Bush buys the white house again, I'll leave earlier.
these guys have tons of strange laptop parts. batteries and chargers for everything from ipod to vaio. they alos have panels, drives, and other parts. If they don't have it, you're not going to get it.
Best linux advice anyone ever gave me. So I did, thanks! I know it's all my fault for expecting an x86 OS to run out of the box on industry standard video, nic, mouse and laptop. Silly me!
Although I mildly enjoyed speding the day reading all about the weirdness of X, and 'authorizing' myself to use my own display, I decided it was best to wait until Linux was actually finished. You know, a usable product that can run Oracle for me? Let me know will ya?
Still have the Solaris9 slice on my laptop - in case I need to use a real unix for something...
He didn't even do anything with the system. So what was the point? also failed to mention the kind of NCI he had so much trouble with...stupid.
I installed the 12/02 on my Dell 610C laptop, Pii1g, 256M, 3com 3c509, ati mobility radeon and everything worked perfectly. It was the most stable OS I ever used, really amazing.
Contrast this to Linux on the same laptop which was like pulling teeth. The X windwos config tool worked fine at high res- but x woulnd't so I would run xwindows config tool, open shells and launch apps from there. Wokred great. HATE the stupid linux xwin setup thing what the hell is "display 0:0" and why Do I have to screw with it?, Similar issues with mouse support.
I want the ease of install and stability of Solaris9, and the app support for Linux. Or is that mutually incompatible?
SO far my comprise is SUSE linux in a VMware session. It runs better under VMware than on any native hardware I have. Everything works, view, sound, nic on any machine I have done it on. And I can burn a working vmware linux/with Oracle9i to DVD and send to others.
SUN now says they are going full on with AMD64 chips. See full page ads in USA today touting this. Does that mean x86-84 Solaris is coming?
What he was getting at is: your standard desktop PCI slots are 32bits@33MHZ. That's 4 bytes at 33Mhz. Do the math you get 132MBps - tops. That's for ALL the slots combined. Your NIC will never run faster than that until you go to a 64 bit PCI slot. The ones with the extra notches in them. But 120Mbps is 15Meg/s. About 3 times faster than 100Mbps switched. The most you can expect would be around 50Meg/sec ~480Mbps. Maybe your disks are on the same PCI bus?
And yes, I would say web servers are the primary exception, otherwise most server's I/O is diskbound. It may take lots of reading and writing for your Oracle server to calculate this years profits. But when it's done allthat goes across the wire is the actual profit number. Tons of disk, very little network. I do database migrations, on my laptop (PIII 1k) it takes 2hrs per gig of disk, with 15% cpu. On 10k scsi it takes 45 minutes per gig, 15k about 35 minutes per gig, virtually no cpu.
Conclusion: NetBSD outperforms all other operating systems in this benchmark. However, all contestants scale equally well, there are no clear losers. And the overall latency in this benchmark is so low that the results are interchangeable in practice.
The first graph, which this quote is under, does not support this. It clearly shows Linux 2.6 using HALF the CPU cycles of NetBSD above 4000 connections. How did he get this conclusion? 2.6 is the clear winner in his tests.
So your saying there is a worldwide market for 2 or 3 of these things? wow! just like the computer itself! HP. Always following in IBM's footprints - right down to the astounding ignorance.
code should be in escrow at the lawyers office for the firm. Sale contracts state in the event of the firms failure, the code is delivered to the clients. clients may use it for internal use only, not distribute it, but may modify the code for their own use. This is how big software (finance, hr, etc) is sold. As for your average dot-bomb company...
Ask a lawyer about found property laws in your state.
Office Startup assistant. Installs by default in 2000 and XP, silently and without asking. It PRELOADS parts of ofice, so word/excel.etc launch faster.
OO has a similar feature - 'quick starter' but it is NOT installed by default.
2) You are forcing OO to do a file conversion when it loads the xls or doc file. if you really used oo the files would be in oo format and not have to be converted. Use an open, published file format for both offices. Whoops, can't do that for MSOffice, sorry.
On my PIII-1k laptop they launch and run at teh same speed.
I bought Caldera 2.2, in the pretty yellow box, back when it was trendy, and then got a free upgrade to to 2.3. I am still using that on one of my machines. It's currently my only running Linux box.
Will SCO sue me for using a product *they* sold me? I even have the receipt!
I sense a severe lack of forward thinking here...
MAX
(I buy a few commerical distro's each year. I suck at programming, so consider this my 'contribution' to Linux. )
It's already started in Thailand, and the phillipines. It's not the US dollare vs the Rupee, it's the US dollar vs the world. And when your standard of livng goes up - you'll lose.
As you are to the US, other will be to you. Count on it.
Acutally most end users want a computer that they can use to write documents, surf the web and play games. Well maybe do their taxes and some financial accounting but not much more.
Actually most users use whatever PC their corporate IT staff gave them. Linux is too complex/powerful for ma and pa home use, and it doesn't have the propietary software for corporate use, finance, HR, management, reporting , etc.
I work for a large medical software vendor, and while we support Linux/oracle our clients are all win32 only as it every other large system. So we sell 1 linux server and 200 windows PC's.
Does that make us a 'linux developer'?
MSFT has nothing to worry about on the corporate desktop front - where the majority of PC's are.
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at low rpm, minimum approaches zero. That's the problem with turbo's - they don't do anything until the engine is already running really fast.
I haven't driven a Turbo TT, but in a Subaru WRX, below 2000 rpm the car is just a wimpy 4cyl econobox. At around 2500 RPM it starts to pull and at 4000rpm it's get pretty silly. Grin inducing silly.
Assuming a tall 6th gear on the TT, there would be essentially no turbo boost at hwy speeds, probably around 2500rpm @70mph.
JON
Turns out that running coax through my parents' basement to play DOOM and Duke 3d (the 3rd one...) was good practice for the network of the time. Once you had the IPX stackloaded, you just added netx or vlm...and that copy of Novell I 'found' on a BBS worked like a charm. Anyway the point is you can get experience on your own with just a few PC's (or in my case, my friends PC's lugged over).
Throughout college you should have been installing win2k, NW6, Win2k3, Linux 2.2,2.4, now 2.6, exchange, notes, DNS, eDir, LDAP so you have some depth of experience with these technologies. Apparently you didn't. So maybe you are looking at the wrong field? You can't just declare yourself a networking person, and hope to get hired. What did you work on when you were in college?
If you only have one PC, dual boot. If it's powerful, vmware.
JON
his premise is that developers can make 3 version pretty easily with similar graphics. And that when xbox2 comes out, it will require a different development model. MSFT makes the best dev kits, period. They know how to get poeple to write for their platform, and writing for xbox2 will be SO easy everyone will be doing it. Rem all the complaining about the high price of PS2's kit and how hard it was to use? I wouldn't be surpised if you could put a PS2 CD in an xbox2 dev kit, click one button and have it convert the game to xbox2 format for you.
Stupid premise, stupid article.
JON
uh, state school, ~ 5k/yr in tuition and texts. Keep working, do it part time. Graduate in 6 years. Now that's a 30k investment, not 325k...suddenly the payback is a little clearer, isn't it?
I went to a very pricey private school, and still only spent 40k on tuition for 3 years (compressed) to get my 4 year degree.
Nice career you have there: be someone's pet PC tinkerer! I did that in high school, then I moved on.
It sounds like you are talking yourself out of school. You'll get it eventually. No degree, nowhere to go.
JON
c/Haried/Haired
for the clueless
JON
Keep computers in your basement as a hobby. I am wrapping up my BS in Business this spring, likely startting MBA next year. Why be Dilbert when you can be the Pointy Haried Boss?
My biggest problem is I am too good at what I do (I build Oracle/MS-SQL DB's for health care facilites). I also make enough money that the ROI on the MBA doesn't look that great. I'll have to work hard on forgetting what I know to be an effective manager. "I heard Mauve has more RAM". heh. Can't wait!
JON
Did I get the primary post? I refreshed twice and nothing came up.
This is an outrage! he should have used open source bandwidth because it's free!
JON
I am getting out of IT. I am planning on running a bicycle store. Mountain bikes, BMX, something for the road weanies. This high flying job is not going to last forever. My toyota is paid for and I live in a 1bed condo that I also own. I am investing in properties, 2 so far, one more this spring, and am in my last class for my B.S. in Business. "Fables and Folktales", the things you do to graduate :) Goes well the engineering AA. Next up MBA, a few more investments and....see ya...
Why be Dilbert when you can be the pointy haired boss?
JON
Oh yeah, my H1B expires June 1, 2007. If Bush buys the white house again, I'll leave earlier.
you can read why this generally does not work here:
http://www.laptopsforless.com/norefurbs.html
these guys have LOTS of replacement batteries.
JON
these guys have tons of strange laptop parts. batteries and chargers for everything from ipod to vaio. they alos have panels, drives, and other parts. If they don't have it, you're not going to get it.
http://www.laptopsforless.com/
JON
Best linux advice anyone ever gave me. So I did, thanks! I know it's all my fault for expecting an x86 OS to run out of the box on industry standard video, nic, mouse and laptop. Silly me!
Although I mildly enjoyed speding the day reading all about the weirdness of X, and 'authorizing' myself to use my own display, I decided it was best to wait until Linux was actually finished. You know, a usable product that can run Oracle for me? Let me know will ya?
Still have the Solaris9 slice on my laptop - in case I need to use a real unix for something...
JON
He didn't even do anything with the system. So what was the point? also failed to mention the kind of NCI he had so much trouble with...stupid.
/with Oracle9i to DVD and send to others.
I installed the 12/02 on my Dell 610C laptop, Pii1g, 256M, 3com 3c509, ati mobility radeon and everything worked perfectly. It was the most stable OS I ever used, really amazing.
Contrast this to Linux on the same laptop which was like pulling teeth. The X windwos config tool worked fine at high res- but x woulnd't so I would run xwindows config tool, open shells and launch apps from there. Wokred great. HATE the stupid linux xwin setup thing what the hell is "display 0:0" and why Do I have to screw with it?, Similar issues with mouse support.
I want the ease of install and stability of Solaris9, and the app support for Linux. Or is that mutually incompatible?
SO far my comprise is SUSE linux in a VMware session. It runs better under VMware than on any native hardware I have. Everything works, view, sound, nic on any machine I have done it on. And I can burn a working vmware linux
SUN now says they are going full on with AMD64 chips. See full page ads in USA today touting this. Does that mean x86-84 Solaris is coming?
Rambling? who me?
JON
What he was getting at is: your standard desktop PCI slots are 32bits@33MHZ. That's 4 bytes at 33Mhz. Do the math you get 132MBps - tops. That's for ALL the slots combined. Your NIC will never run faster than that until you go to a 64 bit PCI slot. The ones with the extra notches in them. But 120Mbps is 15Meg/s. About 3 times faster than 100Mbps switched. The most you can expect would be around 50Meg/sec ~480Mbps. Maybe your disks are on the same PCI bus?
And yes, I would say web servers are the primary exception, otherwise most server's I/O is diskbound. It may take lots of reading and writing for your Oracle server to calculate this years profits. But when it's done allthat goes across the wire is the actual profit number. Tons of disk, very little network. I do database migrations, on my laptop (PIII 1k) it takes 2hrs per gig of disk, with 15% cpu. On 10k scsi it takes 45 minutes per gig, 15k about 35 minutes per gig, virtually no cpu.
JON
Conclusion: NetBSD outperforms all other operating systems in this benchmark. However, all contestants scale equally well, there are no clear losers. And the overall latency in this benchmark is so low that the results are interchangeable in practice.
The first graph, which this quote is under, does not support this. It clearly shows Linux 2.6 using HALF the CPU cycles of NetBSD above 4000 connections. How did he get this conclusion? 2.6 is the clear winner in his tests.
JON
So your saying there is a worldwide market for 2 or 3 of these things? wow! just like the computer itself! HP. Always following in IBM's footprints - right down to the astounding ignorance.
Duh.
code should be in escrow at the lawyers office for the firm. Sale contracts state in the event of the firms failure, the code is delivered to the clients. clients may use it for internal use only, not distribute it, but may modify the code for their own use. This is how big software (finance, hr, etc) is sold. As for your average dot-bomb company...
Ask a lawyer about found property laws in your state.
...after it was already reverse engineered and they had no choice but to compete. Now they could have sued...
max
1)
OSA.EXE
Office Startup assistant. Installs by default in 2000 and XP, silently and without asking. It PRELOADS parts of ofice, so word/excel.etc launch faster.
OO has a similar feature - 'quick starter' but it is NOT installed by default.
2)
You are forcing OO to do a file conversion when it loads the xls or doc file. if you really used oo the files would be in oo format and not have to be converted. Use an open, published file format for both offices. Whoops, can't do that for MSOffice, sorry.
On my PIII-1k laptop they launch and run at teh same speed.
JON
I bought Caldera 2.2, in the pretty yellow box, back when it was trendy, and then got a free upgrade to to 2.3. I am still using that on one of my machines. It's currently my only running Linux box.
Will SCO sue me for using a product *they* sold me? I even have the receipt!
I sense a severe lack of forward thinking here...
MAX
(I buy a few commerical distro's each year. I suck at programming, so consider this my 'contribution' to Linux. )
Get that, then your all set.
It's already started in Thailand, and the phillipines. It's not the US dollare vs the Rupee, it's the US dollar vs the world. And when your standard of livng goes up - you'll lose.
As you are to the US, other will be to you. Count on it.
JON
The comparison tool uses:
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.194 (Intel X86)
That's SQl 2000 with SP1 - the latest shipping version available.
JON
Actually most users use whatever PC their corporate IT staff gave them. Linux is too complex/powerful for ma and pa home use, and it doesn't have the propietary software for corporate use, finance, HR, management, reporting , etc.
I work for a large medical software vendor, and while we support Linux/oracle our clients are all win32 only as it every other large system. So we sell 1 linux server and 200 windows PC's.
Does that make us a 'linux developer'?
MSFT has nothing to worry about on the corporate desktop front - where the majority of PC's are.
JON
We're talking about MICROSOFT here. Once they have driven the PS2 and Game cube out of business, ALL prices will go UP UP UP.
1989 Computer $8,000, Microsoft software, $500
2003 Computer $500, Microsoft software $500
Once Xbox becomes the 'portal' your looking at $34.95/month and up, just like cable TV.
Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it...
I saw the "vaporware" 17" and the little 12" at best buy yesterday. No 25 day wait, just pick one up.