Mebbe it's urban legend, so take it with a grain of salt... Part of the story I read [on this Internet thingy] was someone made and ethernet card that clocked at 10,485,760 bits per second, and didn't figure it out until the product was out of the lab.
But only because some morons didn't get that the SI-prefixes were Base 2 when it came to storage capacity and Base 10 when it came to bandwidth. I mean, of course we have subtle little secrets and speak in code words, we're computer geeks goddammit.
The kibi-, gibi-, and tebi- are the new abominations (imo) used to describe the old-school Base 2, thus a kibibyte is 1024 bytes (whereas a kilobyte was 1024 bytes in the "good old days"), and now a kilobyte it 1000 bytes.
dude, only geeks like you and myself new about distributed.net. SETI brought the concept to the great unwashed masses. and for that matter, there were other (private) projects that pre-date distributed.net, in an attempt to soak up unused institutional computing cycles.
So? The 8088 (ala 4.77Mhz IBM-PC and we O/C'd them to 7+) was a 16-bit machine even though it had an 8-bit data bus. The width of the registers is what dictates the width of a machine.
You are trolling, right? Or do you just fail to realize that 32bits in each direction is one of the ways they achieve a 1Ghz FSB speed? By skipping the direction bit on the bus, they are saving a little propogation time, which leads to more cycles per second.
I might add too for the quote-unquote cost of OS X you get security patches within about a week...and auto-installed by Software Update. With Windows it's several weeks or months and then play patchian-roulette unless you want to wait forever until it shows up on WindowsUpdate.
It's kind of more like "making it into a game". I rarely hit my day with an explicit detailed plan like some people. To me, that seems too much like I'm the machine and the list is some code for me to crunch. Rather, I have a more vague objective: go here oh yeah and X and Y are the big things that have to get done. Listening to the DVR when I'm walking to get a coffee or some other idle period simply reminds me of certain things that are important, yet what I characterize as "mundane" or things I definitely don't want to forget. The game aspect comes in with the choices to ignore certain things, then also the "oh, that place is right around the corner", or "better take some extra patch cords when I go up in the attic", or my favorite is when two or three of the recordings converge to create a 1 or 2 hour activity to take care of them all.
I can see how you might view what I wrote as an OCD-like behavior (although I think nobody can truly imitate OCD). Perhaps you envisioned someone making hundreds of notes to self and listening to the device dozens of times on a daily basis. What it is like for me is on a good day, I will make 5 or 6 notes to self. I don't recall (laughs) ever making more than 10. I listen maybe 1-3 times a day, on a really bad day where focus is really hard I may listen more than that just to keep myself working. The part where it is really helpful is when I find myself idle and thinking there's nothing to do. IMO it works better than using a day planner, a) because I actually use it, and b) much less time spent maintaining it (after a few listens, I recognize a message, know what it is and hit the skip button).
This is the first serious thread posted, so here goes. You may or may not need Ritalin; AMA docs just toss it at you because they are programmed to dispense pills. Get books from Thom Hartmann. I am not affiliated with Mr. Hartmann, I listened to an edition of The Aware Show on my local free-commie radio station, that he was on. I have found his books to be helpful. They helped me get a perspective on my hunter-uniqueness (compared to those descended from agriculturally based societies), that I can live with. It is not a disorder nor does it place me at a deficit. We are easily distracted unless properly challenged, and capable of focusing on a "real" challenge, come hell or high water, until the hunt is through. We make good leaders, as well as team members, once we recognize what we are capable of, and what we need others to do for us, to help us succeed.
My other suggestion is to get a Digital Voice Recorder. Make notes to self and listen to them while walking around. This helps me crunch the more mundane tasks by making it into a challenge: how to do x more efficiently because I'm on my way to this or that place.
I seem to remember a web page where guys used liquid oxigen to rapidly prepare charcoal for grilling. I'd suggest something along those lines. Or we have a nice bridge here in Pasadena known as "Suicide Bridge", it's a few hundred foot drop to the arroyo. I heard a story once about a guy I met a couple of times, hurling some chicks' Vespa over the side...that was a looong time ago.
DISCLAIMER: DO NOT ATTEMPT...THOUGHTS OF A PROFESSIONAL MANIAC NOT INTENDED FOR REAL-WORLD IMPLEMENTATION.
Forget the army of 'em. How about the 24-year old law school graduate hottie (yep smart too that's how she got degree at 24) looking great in her not-too miniskirt suit and spike heels, they send over to the SCO camp to invite them to the "big meeting" at IBM, where of course, the army is waiting.
Ahh yes...the good old leveraged buy-out, the hostile takeover, the corporate caper. Makes me nostalgic for the 80's and some girls with new wave hairdos. Too bad I think Darl is probably smart enough (barely) to make sure he won't lose a proxy fight. Exit...stage left.
Which is a good segue for my snipe...the article: "Microsoft's decision creates a conundrum for Mac users seeking maximum compatibility. Many Web sites are designed to work best or, in some cases, only with Internet Explorer." My experience has been many many many sites that work with IE/Win don't work with any version of IE/Mac. So what's this "compatibility" red herring?
To quote the article: Unfortunately, the biggest limitation for Apple's computers continues to be the lack of x86 support, thus preventing all of this stylish hardware from being used on over two decades of the largest software user base.
Gee, I thought that was *the* most fortunate advantage of the Mac platform.
yup did that too for my mom. Worked mostly OK except for a few messages that were encoded in Traditional Chinese or something. libdbx choked (this was around last Thanksgiving; maybe it's been updated).
Dude Q4 estimates from 2002 are a bit stale at this point, don't you think? You really could not get your hands on an Xserve until around August last year...
Not to mention the defendants have the advantage when it comes to discovery. Probably exactly the type of thing SCO would hope to gaslight someone into doing.
Not familiar with cipe (thanks for the tip of a clue) however I should have more specifically said any TCP tunneling protocol running over TCP. Also have a look at/proc/sys/net/ipv4 on your linux box looks like some stuff to tweak in there. Dunno haven't researched it thoroughly. Also probably have to tune on both sides or else lame side wins any negotiating. Just like building a muscle car, hot rodding your IP stack isn't for everyone.
Novell were probably biding their time waiting for SCO to completely get their foot in it. Released this today because Novell now looks better than they would have on Friday.
this problem is not unique to ssh. any tunneling protocol will suffer the same degradation. seems to me though it should be possible to change the ack timeout or increase the window size for the tunneled tcp connection to smooth out the bumps.
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Mebbe it's urban legend, so take it with a grain of salt... Part of the story I read [on this Internet thingy] was someone made and ethernet card that clocked at 10,485,760 bits per second, and didn't figure it out until the product was out of the lab.
But only because some morons didn't get that the SI-prefixes were Base 2 when it came to storage capacity and Base 10 when it came to bandwidth. I mean, of course we have subtle little secrets and speak in code words, we're computer geeks goddammit.
The kibi-, gibi-, and tebi- are the new abominations (imo) used to describe the old-school Base 2, thus a kibibyte is 1024 bytes (whereas a kilobyte was 1024 bytes in the "good old days"), and now a kilobyte it 1000 bytes.
Seems it's a lot more complicated to build a network of 2000 boxes than it is to make a web page without broken img links (Link is from the c-net article)
dude, only geeks like you and myself new about distributed.net. SETI brought the concept to the great unwashed masses. and for that matter, there were other (private) projects that pre-date distributed.net, in an attempt to soak up unused institutional computing cycles.
We'd probably get voted out the first week.
So? The 8088 (ala 4.77Mhz IBM-PC and we O/C'd them to 7+) was a 16-bit machine even though it had an 8-bit data bus. The width of the registers is what dictates the width of a machine.
betcha a dollar they GPL a driver for the fans.
You are trolling, right? Or do you just fail to realize that 32bits in each direction is one of the ways they achieve a 1Ghz FSB speed? By skipping the direction bit on the bus, they are saving a little propogation time, which leads to more cycles per second.
[OK, i've been playing too much battlefield]
I might add too for the quote-unquote cost of OS X you get security patches within about a week...and auto-installed by Software Update. With Windows it's several weeks or months and then play patchian-roulette unless you want to wait forever until it shows up on WindowsUpdate.
So, by that logic, if HyperThreading were turned on for the Xeon benchmarks, the comparison would be against a Quad-CPU G5, right?
Then there's my comment from last week.
I can see how you might view what I wrote as an OCD-like behavior (although I think nobody can truly imitate OCD). Perhaps you envisioned someone making hundreds of notes to self and listening to the device dozens of times on a daily basis. What it is like for me is on a good day, I will make 5 or 6 notes to self. I don't recall (laughs) ever making more than 10. I listen maybe 1-3 times a day, on a really bad day where focus is really hard I may listen more than that just to keep myself working. The part where it is really helpful is when I find myself idle and thinking there's nothing to do. IMO it works better than using a day planner, a) because I actually use it, and b) much less time spent maintaining it (after a few listens, I recognize a message, know what it is and hit the skip button).
My other suggestion is to get a Digital Voice Recorder. Make notes to self and listen to them while walking around. This helps me crunch the more mundane tasks by making it into a challenge: how to do x more efficiently because I'm on my way to this or that place.
DISCLAIMER: DO NOT ATTEMPT...THOUGHTS OF A PROFESSIONAL MANIAC NOT INTENDED FOR REAL-WORLD IMPLEMENTATION.
Forget the army of 'em. How about the 24-year old law school graduate hottie (yep smart too that's how she got degree at 24) looking great in her not-too miniskirt suit and spike heels, they send over to the SCO camp to invite them to the "big meeting" at IBM, where of course, the army is waiting.
Ahh yes...the good old leveraged buy-out, the hostile takeover, the corporate caper. Makes me nostalgic for the 80's and some girls with new wave hairdos. Too bad I think Darl is probably smart enough (barely) to make sure he won't lose a proxy fight. Exit...stage left.
Which is a good segue for my snipe...the article: "Microsoft's decision creates a conundrum for Mac users seeking maximum compatibility. Many Web sites are designed to work best or, in some cases, only with Internet Explorer." My experience has been many many many sites that work with IE/Win don't work with any version of IE/Mac. So what's this "compatibility" red herring?
Gee, I thought that was *the* most fortunate advantage of the Mac platform.
yup did that too for my mom. Worked mostly OK except for a few messages that were encoded in Traditional Chinese or something. libdbx choked (this was around last Thanksgiving; maybe it's been updated).
Dude Q4 estimates from 2002 are a bit stale at this point, don't you think? You really could not get your hands on an Xserve until around August last year...
Not to mention the defendants have the advantage when it comes to discovery. Probably exactly the type of thing SCO would hope to gaslight someone into doing.
Not familiar with cipe (thanks for the tip of a clue) however I should have more specifically said any TCP tunneling protocol running over TCP. Also have a look at /proc/sys/net/ipv4 on your linux box looks like some stuff to tweak in there. Dunno haven't researched it thoroughly. Also probably have to tune on both sides or else lame side wins any negotiating. Just like building a muscle car, hot rodding your IP stack isn't for everyone.
Novell were probably biding their time waiting for SCO to completely get their foot in it. Released this today because Novell now looks better than they would have on Friday.
this problem is not unique to ssh. any tunneling protocol will suffer the same degradation. seems to me though it should be possible to change the ack timeout or increase the window size for the tunneled tcp connection to smooth out the bumps.