The design is about acquiring an incremental gain in performance, and seems to follow the Jaguar theme of enhanced multitasking and anti-spinlocking. This rev speeds overall system throughput compared to the QuickSilver by allowing other bus masters to access RAM without stealing cycles from the CPU.
What I haven't heard anyone talking about is some of the groundwork laid out for later, when they can remove the CPU bottleneck. Some of the more interesting features of the Xserve architechture are: Intervention and Write Combining. Funny, the things revealed by a little research...
I'll keep my QuickSilver 933 for now. Jaguar promises good performance gains, and that's worth the $129 if I save about one hour for one client. (or worth about $500 if Jag gives me an extra hour of quoteunquote free time)
Jeez, maybe not EVERYBODY has seen the story just because YOU have seen it. What a fat lot of typcially self-centered geeks we have out here today... Personally, having a life, I missed this little nugget and I appreciate the fault-tolerant story repost
And that motherfucker is crazy. An outragesouly brilliant hack.
Comparing 10.2 to Win98SE is an insult at best. Win98SE was purely bug fixes. They tried to toss some of the "Plus" crap in there with it but whoTF uses that anyway? 10.2 actually has a variety of new features, and it is _more_ than a year since the last "paid upgrade" release of 10.0. Win98 barely filled in the channel before Win98SE.
I think that past practice was just part of the plan to inflate the version number to X, and now that they have X, they don't want to toss it right away.
php, no thanks. mod_perl for me. at one remote execution compromise a month for the past couple of months, php is starting to look like sendmail (yes, it was a long time ago) or dare I say IIS? time will tell...
Maybe we should switch to an uncompressed image format?;-(
In a true "Pointy Haired Boss" tradition, I might say it is not such a bad suggestion...It would serve to suddenly enhance the value of all the fiber we've overbuilt.
I like the idea of merging the set-top box with a DVR using normal cable tv or satellite. A good combination.
Perhaps to thwart TV "thieves" like myself. I'd say the odds against this device having a commercial skip button or even a fast-forward are pretty high.
Here's a suggestion...go hang on one of the Windows weblogs. Don't have one you say? Perhaps that's because NOBODY is enthusiastic about using/owing Windows. Oh yeah, been wondering about that major pain in your ass? It's M$. Guess they've been fucking you so long you don't hardly notice it any more. I can only imagine a guy like you colluding with the bean counters to move the budget items for the annual Microsoft upkeep out of technology and into operating expenses so your company doesn't even know how much Microsoft costs them.
I must say parrotting chatter from the apache developer list into the form of a security advisory is what I consider to be actions worthy of the elite.
I think perhaps sheldon caught a major resentment when his mother was abducted and later murdered by a gang of Tusken Raiders, and rather than dealing with it, he has turned to the dark side...
Back when attrition.org used to map defacements, the curves looked almost like the netcraft curves for installed based. A closer look revealed that the big curve on the attrition graph had "IIS" on the legend, whereas the big curve on the netcraft graph had "apache". IMO, that's the real reason to avoid IIS - accounts for 2x the defacements on 1/2 the installed base. Yes, my information is a bit old...my call is it has not changed significantly. BTW if anyone can help clue me in on whom has taken to archving/logging website defacements after attrition gave up, I'll appreciate it very much.
"In a few months I'll grab a new mobo and a CPU and basically breathe life into my PC for $300"
It has been said before, peecees are for people that want to do things to their computers and macs for people who want to do things with theirs.
In a few months, I'll sell my G4/933 for about 75% of the original cost and upgrade to a new tower for about $600 more than that. An hour-long Carbon Copy Cloner session, and I'm back up and running right where I was.
I dunno how much your time is worth to you, for me, it's a no-brainer to spend $600 instead of $300, so I won't have to spend a couple of hours ripping systems apart, getting cut by the case, breathing in dust, and if running Windoze, the extra two days of hair loss getting the drivers set just right. If Linux, who knows how long. It can be a quick switchover, but then again, maybe there's some cool new drivers for the cool new features on that cool new motherboard and don'tcha know, I've just got to hunt 'em down and rebuild the kernel to use them.
This is great, and even enjoyable when what I want to do is tinker with my system. I've been there done that so much I just want to get a faster system to write and test code on, and do it without slicing up my knuckles and without spending a bundle of cash. The first Mac was a big pile of money, (and so have some of the many "first" peecees, BTW), upgrading, IMO is on par.
I believe our Anonymous Coward friend was referring to the total elapsed time from the user filing the trouble ticket until the ticket is resolved, not the 5 minutes the tech spends to dig into the registry/install yet another microsoft patch.
I've got my issues with MacSlash letting heavy-handed moderators run rampant. That said, I also want to say I think they deserve a little break here. I get the impression that MacSlash is more of a hobby for the guys involved; I don't believe they are fortunate enough to be able to turn it into their "Day Job", like the/. crew.
Pointing fingers at them for malfeasance is a bit of an overreaction. These guys have been providing a service to the Mac community, and IMO, thanking them is more appropriate. And what about the individual that acquired the macslash.com domain? His/her actions are akin to keeping the wallet they found even though the rightful owners' address is in it.
I dunno if they recovered the domain or just my DNS still has the "old" address in it...I was able to access macslash, and they say
"[update] If we go down, we'll be back on www.macslash.net in a few days until the rest is sorted out. If you'd like to recieve email updates, send me an email with MacSlash status'"
I fail to see what the big hoopla is about, or why this is even posted to Slashdot.
I believe it was posted out here to illustrate a point. Actually, two. The first being there are too many whiny, immature vocal types in the Linux community. The second being too many of these whiners cannot tolerate anyone making a cent off of Linux, unless it's IBM or VA.
Everyone cheered TiVO and Philips for choosing Linux. Hey, I even bought one just because it ran Linux. TiVO has been way more than cool to the Linux community, supporting the TiVO hackers. Participating on the tivocommunity boards, telling the hackers where "not to look", even ensuring that TiVO upgrades didn't botch guys like me that added more drives. They have honored opt-out of user tracking, and they made it easy to opt-out. I was not put on hold when I called to opt-out, was not questioned at all why I wanted to opt-out, and was greeted by a friendly person on the other side.
TiVO was never really about making PVR's. Their motive was to be the first player in the emerging TV-on-demand market. The fact that their stuff runs on Linux is good for Linux. The more the big guys adopt, the more they will expend resources to develop Linux. What's good for Linux is good for my server farms.
So what if TiVO duped a broadcaster into buying ads from them. Who's going to watch it anyway? Kudos to them for finding a way to get these fools to part with their cash. And if you're whining about the space (which is in the reserved portion), go get a bigger drive and put it in your TiVO. They're cheap. Probably costs less than you could make if you spent your time making money instead of whining.
COP: Tell me son, why exactly were you purchasing a metal halide lamp? GEEK: Well sir, I am a hobbyist, see COP:interrupts A hobbyist, huh? GEEK: yes, I am making a homegrown COP:interrupts homegrown, huh? Son, you have the right to remain silent... GEEK: LCD PROJECTOR! SIR!!! A HOMEGROWN LCD PROJECTOR!!! YOU KNOW, one of those things that projects computer images on the wall. COP: Images on the walls. Hmmm...you must be pretty good at your "hobby"
BOM, you hit the nail smack on the head! Stated differently, Linux is for people that want to do stuff *to* their computer, OS X is for people that want to do stuff *with* their computer. For me, both paradigms are appropriate for different challenges, that's why I use/tweak on both.
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What I haven't heard anyone talking about is some of the groundwork laid out for later, when they can remove the CPU bottleneck. Some of the more interesting features of the Xserve architechture are: Intervention and Write Combining. Funny, the things revealed by a little research...
I'll keep my QuickSilver 933 for now. Jaguar promises good performance gains, and that's worth the $129 if I save about one hour for one client. (or worth about $500 if Jag gives me an extra hour of quoteunquote free time)
Jeez, maybe not EVERYBODY has seen the story just because YOU have seen it. What a fat lot of typcially self-centered geeks we have out here today... Personally, having a life, I missed this little nugget and I appreciate the fault-tolerant story repost
And that motherfucker is crazy. An outragesouly brilliant hack.
Comparing 10.2 to Win98SE is an insult at best. Win98SE was purely bug fixes. They tried to toss some of the "Plus" crap in there with it but whoTF uses that anyway? 10.2 actually has a variety of new features, and it is _more_ than a year since the last "paid upgrade" release of 10.0. Win98 barely filled in the channel before Win98SE.
I think that past practice was just part of the plan to inflate the version number to X, and now that they have X, they don't want to toss it right away.
Sound like the "extinguish" portion of the endgame to me...
php, no thanks. mod_perl for me. at one remote execution compromise a month for the past couple of months, php is starting to look like sendmail (yes, it was a long time ago) or dare I say IIS? time will tell...
gyratedotorg got it right. "embrace, extend" is all anyone sees when partnering with Microsoft. They don't see "extinguish" until it is too late.
Maybe we should switch to an uncompressed image format? ;-(
In a true "Pointy Haired Boss" tradition, I might say it is not such a bad suggestion...It would serve to suddenly enhance the value of all the fiber we've overbuilt.
I highly doubt a cable company is going to push a device that enables their customers to circumvent commercials. It is not in their interests.
I like the idea of merging the set-top box with a DVR using normal cable tv or satellite. A good combination.
Perhaps to thwart TV "thieves" like myself. I'd say the odds against this device having a commercial skip button or even a fast-forward are pretty high.
Here's a suggestion...go hang on one of the Windows weblogs. Don't have one you say? Perhaps that's because NOBODY is enthusiastic about using/owing Windows. Oh yeah, been wondering about that major pain in your ass? It's M$. Guess they've been fucking you so long you don't hardly notice it any more. I can only imagine a guy like you colluding with the bean counters to move the budget items for the annual Microsoft upkeep out of technology and into operating expenses so your company doesn't even know how much Microsoft costs them.
I must say parrotting chatter from the apache developer list into the form of a security advisory is what I consider to be actions worthy of the elite.
I think perhaps sheldon caught a major resentment when his mother was abducted and later murdered by a gang of Tusken Raiders, and rather than dealing with it, he has turned to the dark side...
Back when attrition.org used to map defacements, the curves looked almost like the netcraft curves for installed based. A closer look revealed that the big curve on the attrition graph had "IIS" on the legend, whereas the big curve on the netcraft graph had "apache". IMO, that's the real reason to avoid IIS - accounts for 2x the defacements on 1/2 the installed base. Yes, my information is a bit old...my call is it has not changed significantly. BTW if anyone can help clue me in on whom has taken to archving/logging website defacements after attrition gave up, I'll appreciate it very much.
Fortunately though, patching *nix systems is *NOT* a full time job.
"In a few months I'll grab a new mobo and a CPU and basically breathe life into my PC for $300"
It has been said before, peecees are for people that want to do things to their computers and macs for people who want to do things with theirs.
In a few months, I'll sell my G4/933 for about 75% of the original cost and upgrade to a new tower for about $600 more than that. An hour-long Carbon Copy Cloner session, and I'm back up and running right where I was.
I dunno how much your time is worth to you, for me, it's a no-brainer to spend $600 instead of $300, so I won't have to spend a couple of hours ripping systems apart, getting cut by the case, breathing in dust, and if running Windoze, the extra two days of hair loss getting the drivers set just right. If Linux, who knows how long. It can be a quick switchover, but then again, maybe there's some cool new drivers for the cool new features on that cool new motherboard and don'tcha know, I've just got to hunt 'em down and rebuild the kernel to use them.
This is great, and even enjoyable when what I want to do is tinker with my system. I've been there done that so much I just want to get a faster system to write and test code on, and do it without slicing up my knuckles and without spending a bundle of cash. The first Mac was a big pile of money, (and so have some of the many "first" peecees, BTW), upgrading, IMO is on par.
I think this thread is for you.
I believe our Anonymous Coward friend was referring to the total elapsed time from the user filing the trouble ticket until the ticket is resolved, not the 5 minutes the tech spends to dig into the registry/install yet another microsoft patch.
See, you're one of those proverbial "whippersnappers" that I've had occasion to grumble about.
Pointing fingers at them for malfeasance is a bit of an overreaction. These guys have been providing a service to the Mac community, and IMO, thanking them is more appropriate. And what about the individual that acquired the macslash.com domain? His/her actions are akin to keeping the wallet they found even though the rightful owners' address is in it.
"[update] If we go down, we'll be back on www.macslash.net in a few days until the rest is sorted out. If you'd like to recieve email updates, send me an email with MacSlash status'"
I believe it was posted out here to illustrate a point. Actually, two. The first being there are too many whiny, immature vocal types in the Linux community. The second being too many of these whiners cannot tolerate anyone making a cent off of Linux, unless it's IBM or VA.
Everyone cheered TiVO and Philips for choosing Linux. Hey, I even bought one just because it ran Linux. TiVO has been way more than cool to the Linux community, supporting the TiVO hackers. Participating on the tivocommunity boards, telling the hackers where "not to look", even ensuring that TiVO upgrades didn't botch guys like me that added more drives. They have honored opt-out of user tracking, and they made it easy to opt-out. I was not put on hold when I called to opt-out, was not questioned at all why I wanted to opt-out, and was greeted by a friendly person on the other side.
TiVO was never really about making PVR's. Their motive was to be the first player in the emerging TV-on-demand market. The fact that their stuff runs on Linux is good for Linux. The more the big guys adopt, the more they will expend resources to develop Linux. What's good for Linux is good for my server farms.
So what if TiVO duped a broadcaster into buying ads from them. Who's going to watch it anyway? Kudos to them for finding a way to get these fools to part with their cash. And if you're whining about the space (which is in the reserved portion), go get a bigger drive and put it in your TiVO. They're cheap. Probably costs less than you could make if you spent your time making money instead of whining.
Dude, we measure storage in Gigabytes these days. Get an upgrade!
COP: Tell me son, why exactly were you purchasing a metal halide lamp?
GEEK: Well sir, I am a hobbyist, see
COP: interrupts A hobbyist, huh?
GEEK: yes, I am making a homegrown
COP: interrupts homegrown, huh? Son, you have the right to remain silent...
GEEK: LCD PROJECTOR! SIR!!! A HOMEGROWN LCD PROJECTOR!!! YOU KNOW, one of those things that projects computer images on the wall.
COP: Images on the walls. Hmmm...you must be pretty good at your "hobby"
BOM, you hit the nail smack on the head! Stated differently, Linux is for people that want to do stuff *to* their computer, OS X is for people that want to do stuff *with* their computer. For me, both paradigms are appropriate for different challenges, that's why I use/tweak on both.