The problem with the fibre channel argument, is that most of these systems still run SCSI over fibre or some variant thereof. I work on uber-high end systems day in and day out (Sun Enterprise systems, Compaq 4+ processor servers) and EVERYTHING that I've seen always comes back to SCSI. IDE is nice, but in reality you're not enough brains comment regarding the SCSI disk controller vs IDE/ATA is null since the drives are the bottleneck. Spinning the drive to the correct cylander, and retrieving data takes much longer than the SCSI bus switching from drive 0 to drive 14, back to 0, off to 2, back to 14 etc etc etc.
Gigabit Fibre w/IP -> Drive = Bad Idea.
To use IP, you have to fragment the data, create checksums, encapsulate the data, then find where you're going to transfer it to, wait for the "IP-BUS" to become available, then transmit at a hardware layer (after potentially doing a DNS lookup and arp/rarp request), have some sort of transmission aceptance and queing (TCP vs UDP), deincapsulate, check the checksums, defragment the data and utilize it.
That's a lot of overhead for something that SCSI does in much fewer clock-ticks.
The fun here for me is that I had IIS running on 2k. I installed the patch, and viola! Bluescreen. It won't boot, it won't boot in "Safe Mode," "VGA Mode" or "Last Known Good." I can't get to the Harddrive (Dos 6.22 disks are no good for FAT32 (80 GB Harddrive) and 6.22 is the only booddisk image I had on my UNIX box). Basicially, my IT Dept said they can re-ghost the system, but that'd be data destructive. I'll have to go buy a 98 CD at lunch to get my system up and running after. Thank god for metaframe.
BTW - if you *have* a windows box, check out http://www.bootdisks.com for disk images that write to floppies, but little love for UNIX.
Reading the guys homepage, it appears that the beef shouldn't be with Palm at all, but with HP (in this case) due to a design flaw in the motherboard. If he had carried his modem around with him for a couple hours (perhaps in his back-pack coming home from a lan party or whatever) and plugged it in, it would have a similar effect. Is it the fault of the peripheral? No - its the fault of the manufacturer for not installing a basic chip to guard against this type of issue.
Agreed that in Windows, its preloaded - but I'm not talking about the time it takes to load. That's a entirely different story. I'm talking about the time it takes to load a page. Also - on the Solaris box, its not integrated into the server (ie. preloaded on boot), so it should not be any faster than the Netscape / Mozilla - yet it is. By the way - it also loads faster than either of the other two and takes up less resources. Imagine that... I'd paste a top, but it'd get all formatted funky anyway.
I'm hoping that this version starts to work faster than previous versions. I've done some simple benchmarking of IE vs Netscape vs Mozilla on both Windows (2000 Advanced Server and 98) as well as Solaris 9 2/01 build. I click open up a new page in the browser that's not cached, and start the stopwatch. I do this for all 3 browsers for the same site. Not surprisingly IE spanks Netscape / Mozilla on both Microsoft platforms, but it also ourperforms them on Solaris. I really like a lot of the mozilla stuff, and if they can get the speed down, its going to be the premier web browser. As of right now, Lynx is the only browser faster than IE.
I'm going to download the new Mozilla build in the next few days, I still have my fingers crossed.
The difference is that for your investment of time, you're placing yourself in a position that could make you more money potentially. Typical Windows 98 "Administrator" makes from $35k - $50k. Typical Linux Administrator $55k - $75k (this is from my personal experience). This is directly because of what you have pointed out. It takes longer Secret windows code
Here's the analogy I use here at work comparing the two.
The Intel chip is like a sports car. The UltraSparc is a Tractor Trailer
They both have the same horse power (in theory). The intel's nice and zippy, assuming that you don't have alot of weight. The UltraSparc may not be as zippy, but it can handle a heck-of-a-lotta more load. Its sorta like the difference in gear ratios. Now, would you like to pull a tractor trailer with a Lamborghini? No. Would you like to drag race the Tractor (stock of course - I've seen the races on speedvision (GRIN))? No. It depends on your application. DB's are a heavy load. Just think about it.
Agreed that it *could* be tied into the SSN information, but unfortunately, having first hand experience as a contractor for multiple government firms, I've come to realize that the seperate departments have little or no interaction, and as little information transfer as possible between departments. Case in point - for multiple government agency, they *EACH* have their own security clearance proceedure, and they don't transfer. Co-workers who had top-secret military grade clearance had to get recertified for another government agency.
Again - great idea - but you forgot to add the government red tape, stir and add the little pink umbrella before smashing it over your head.
Violence is bad
Seeing violence will make you violent
13 year olds have access to credit cards and can see violent stuff
People make money off of creating violence, then condemning it
I really have to remove JonKatz from my list of/. authors that I'll read. Secret windows code
according to the Census, there was estimated to be 272,690,813 as of July 1, 1999. This means that there would be 272,690,813 domains (ouch) taking up 2,726,908,130 Megabytes in storage (based on 10MB / person - assuming everyone uses all 10MB) which is about 2.5 terrabytes of data. That may not sound like much, but maintaining the records (aproximately 2.5 million people added annually, again according to US Census data) and the servers would be an expensive endeavor.
Don't get me wrong. I think its a great idea, just unrealistic. Now if we were able to do it in a request basis, I'd love to have my domain.
I hate to beat the obvious about the this, but THIS IS TOTAL BULLSHIT. If I figgure out a way to take something that is mine (read I own it), I *HAVE A RIGHT* to be able to do to it as I see fit. If I want to take the speed delimiter chip out of my car (because I don't like it there) I have that right, even though it circumvents the methods that my car manufacturer planned. Why do companies like Adobe try to enforce these frivolous lawsuits. I for one am going to stop purchacing Adobe software from herein in favor of other tools like KIllustrator (whoops, can't use that name - its TRADEMARKED). Grrr.... Damn you Adobe.
eLiza: Hello BOFH, there are 4,204 Help desk tickets in the Queue, should I process them now
BOFH: No eLiza - have you been feeling well recently, run a diag, then pipe the output to/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2
eLiza: running the following command... eLiza.diag >/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2
eLiza:...
BOFH: (thinking) *fix* annoying helpdesk problem - check
First off let me state that I was in Beta4 of AO. Gamers such as myself that are really into the MMORPG genre have been anticipating this game for almost a year. I signed up for beta a long time ago, and when I finally got the e-mail that I was selected for the last round of beta testing, I was overjoyed. After spending 4 days just trying to download the 600 MB file with the install (mistake number 1) that was only initially mirrored on a few sites (mistake number 2), I purchaced a CD from a friend (for cost of media). Finally got it installed and played fine until I entered the main city for Omni Corps (the "bad" guys). Through some short-sighted thinking (in my opinion), the game has your video card render THE ENTIRE CITY AND ITS CONTENTS on that zone that are within your view range. This meant that in order to navigate through this beautiful world, I had to do most of it running backwards so that I could only see the wall to the outside world, and not the actual eye-popping eye-candy. I could literally hear my Voodoo 3 screaming at me. Zoning was a nightmare, not knowing if you'd actually zone, or forget to zone, or get disconnected, or blue screen. Shopping was impossible with the NPC vendors as they would only talk to one person at a time, and they were in the center of the city, where EVERYONE else was.
Coming from Asheron's Call, I'm not used to problems with lag. We have seperate shards based on where you want to play, not geographic region. There isn't 1 server for EVERYONE. Everyone should be split into shards, especially for the time being as I'm sure that their datacenters are going to be hard pressed to handle that much traffic (I actually ran it through my firewall, and it was using about 40% more traffic for normal play action [moving, running, shooting etc] than AC does).
The point is that there are companies that seem to be able to handle it, and companies that aren't unfortunatly it appears that Funcom is not. I truly regret that since I *really* want to play. Secret windows code
here here - as an avid AC player, I have to say (as much as it pains me) that M$ and Turbine are doing everything right. When there were ping problem on servers, they opened new servers. The animation is for the most part flawless (except the Gear lamers) and with content that's CONSTANTLY updated in a good manner its the best that MMORPG's have to offer IMHO. As a Beta tester for AO - I have to say, I missed the interaction with the developers that AC seems to enjoy (all of them frequent the same message boards as us, and there's a monthly chat session for our shouts of UA LUB etc).
I'm staying away from AO until I get reports back that its stable and most of all playable. Secret windows code
Work at ISP with literally hundreds of UNIX boxen. This keeps it easy to type (we use kerb and login as root) and doesn't interfere with the other sysadmins preferences.
You're right, but the point is that we're not as dependant on public transportation as Europe is. This is because except for LARGE cities, public transportation in the US is mostly non-existant.
If we were truly commited to reducing emmisions, we'd all take a mag-lev to work every day. Unfortunately, we're not as opt to give up our freedom to drive as our other more publicly-minded european bretheren are.
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The fact that the Bush administration is backed by "Big Oil" *should* not interfere with the fact that the man still has a job to do. At this time, Oil is the most cost effective naturally obtainable resource available to the US, if ONLY we could get to it.
During the Clinton administratrion, they tried (and thankfully failed) to "restructure" health care so that it was in the hands of government agencies in its entirety. Did he do this out of the goodness of his heart? No - he did it because he was backed by the pharmecudical industry, and they knew it would be easier to scam the US government rather than the individual HMO companies out of millions each year.
Don't get the idea that polital agendas aren't anything else. So what if he wants to drill the oil out of the ANWR? What is it going to do sitting in the ground? Will it solve the Energy Crisis in California? Will it keep gas prices down here in the US. No, it won't. Keeping us from that oil is what keeps us dependant on foreign countries for our energy, at least until I have a neuclear reactor in my car (we have a lock on Uranium and Plutonium).
Also - how much farther hands-off do you want him to get if he doesn't repeal laws that hurt business.
Unfortunately, AMD needs to get back up to speed with their processor clocks. When AMD came out with the worlds first 1Ghz, we were all in awe. Now that we're all waiting for the next thing coming out of their HQ, we have the choice with overclocking one of the 1.33 Ghz chips to a respectable speed or getting the Intel's running at 1.8Ghz and above.
I hope AMD trumps Intel again and just throws out the 3Ghz chips, blindsiding Intel into throwing their hat into the Extreeme Speed ring when they're not ready again.:)
The tax credits and such are nice, but people, not too unlike myself, demand a certain aspect of performance. My car at the moment, while certainly not ready for the Indy 500, is a 99 Dodge Avenger Sport with the 2.5 Litre V6 Engine. While available in an Inline 4 (not the sport model, but others), I found it to be relatively unresponsive and not quite ready for the open highway. Honda's ESV is a nice idea, but it has no acceleration nor top speed to be able to deal with normal commuting speed here in the Baltimore-Washington D.C. Corridor (generally 80 - 90 MPH or you'll get run over). If someone could come up with a viable market-ready electric vehicle capable of sustaining at least 150 horsepower and a decent amount of torque, then the American public would, IMHO, be more willing to accept it with open arms.
All opinions of course are my own, and I've been known to be wrong, but I'd personally pay the gas premium rather than give up my perfomance
Nice try, but the results of the request have been boosted by Moore's Law. As CPU power increases, the amount of RC5-64 Blocks that *EACH* computer can process per time "T" also increases. In other words, my AMD K6-300 cranks out about 12 keys per day, whereas my Wife's AMD Thunderbird 750 cranks out aproximately 70 keys per day. As CPU increases, the contest accelerates. When we first took on this contest, we were looking at about 12 years to finish. Now we're looking at 8 years total at the *CURRENT* rate, and this doesn't even make RC5 the default contest for most new clients (OGR's - Optimal Golumb Rulers are the default). Geeks like myself have also kept around older boxes (like Pentiums) to do nothing all day but crack blocks.
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The problem with the fibre channel argument, is that most of these systems still run SCSI over fibre or some variant thereof. I work on uber-high end systems day in and day out (Sun Enterprise systems, Compaq 4+ processor servers) and EVERYTHING that I've seen always comes back to SCSI. IDE is nice, but in reality you're not enough brains comment regarding the SCSI disk controller vs IDE/ATA is null since the drives are the bottleneck. Spinning the drive to the correct cylander, and retrieving data takes much longer than the SCSI bus switching from drive 0 to drive 14, back to 0, off to 2, back to 14 etc etc etc.
Gigabit Fibre w/IP -> Drive = Bad Idea.
To use IP, you have to fragment the data, create checksums, encapsulate the data, then find where you're going to transfer it to, wait for the "IP-BUS" to become available, then transmit at a hardware layer (after potentially doing a DNS lookup and arp/rarp request), have some sort of transmission aceptance and queing (TCP vs UDP), deincapsulate, check the checksums, defragment the data and utilize it.
That's a lot of overhead for something that SCSI does in much fewer clock-ticks.
The fun here for me is that I had IIS running on 2k. I installed the patch, and viola! Bluescreen. It won't boot, it won't boot in "Safe Mode," "VGA Mode" or "Last Known Good." I can't get to the Harddrive (Dos 6.22 disks are no good for FAT32 (80 GB Harddrive) and 6.22 is the only booddisk image I had on my UNIX box). Basicially, my IT Dept said they can re-ghost the system, but that'd be data destructive. I'll have to go buy a 98 CD at lunch to get my system up and running after. Thank god for metaframe.
BTW - if you *have* a windows box, check out http://www.bootdisks.com for disk images that write to floppies, but little love for UNIX.
Reading the guys homepage, it appears that the beef shouldn't be with Palm at all, but with HP (in this case) due to a design flaw in the motherboard. If he had carried his modem around with him for a couple hours (perhaps in his back-pack coming home from a lan party or whatever) and plugged it in, it would have a similar effect. Is it the fault of the peripheral? No - its the fault of the manufacturer for not installing a basic chip to guard against this type of issue.
Agreed that in Windows, its preloaded - but I'm not talking about the time it takes to load. That's a entirely different story. I'm talking about the time it takes to load a page. Also - on the Solaris box, its not integrated into the server (ie. preloaded on boot), so it should not be any faster than the Netscape / Mozilla - yet it is. By the way - it also loads faster than either of the other two and takes up less resources. Imagine that... I'd paste a top, but it'd get all formatted funky anyway.
I'm hoping that this version starts to work faster than previous versions. I've done some simple benchmarking of IE vs Netscape vs Mozilla on both Windows (2000 Advanced Server and 98) as well as Solaris 9 2/01 build. I click open up a new page in the browser that's not cached, and start the stopwatch. I do this for all 3 browsers for the same site. Not surprisingly IE spanks Netscape / Mozilla on both Microsoft platforms, but it also ourperforms them on Solaris. I really like a lot of the mozilla stuff, and if they can get the speed down, its going to be the premier web browser. As of right now, Lynx is the only browser faster than IE.
I'm going to download the new Mozilla build in the next few days, I still have my fingers crossed.
The difference is that for your investment of time, you're placing yourself in a position that could make you more money potentially. Typical Windows 98 "Administrator" makes from $35k - $50k. Typical Linux Administrator $55k - $75k (this is from my personal experience). This is directly because of what you have pointed out. It takes longer
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In the M$ world, I'm forced to pay for something (Windows)
In the GNU/Linux world, I'm willing to pay for something.
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Here's the analogy I use here at work comparing the two.
The Intel chip is like a sports car.
The UltraSparc is a Tractor Trailer
They both have the same horse power (in theory). The intel's nice and zippy, assuming that you don't have alot of weight. The UltraSparc may not be as zippy, but it can handle a heck-of-a-lotta more load. Its sorta like the difference in gear ratios. Now, would you like to pull a tractor trailer with a Lamborghini? No. Would you like to drag race the Tractor (stock of course - I've seen the races on speedvision (GRIN))? No. It depends on your application. DB's are a heavy load. Just think about it.
Agreed that it *could* be tied into the SSN information, but unfortunately, having first hand experience as a contractor for multiple government firms, I've come to realize that the seperate departments have little or no interaction, and as little information transfer as possible between departments. Case in point - for multiple government agency, they *EACH* have their own security clearance proceedure, and they don't transfer. Co-workers who had top-secret military grade clearance had to get recertified for another government agency.
Again - great idea - but you forgot to add the government red tape, stir and add the little pink umbrella before smashing it over your head.
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Violence is bad
/. authors that I'll read.
Seeing violence will make you violent
13 year olds have access to credit cards and can see violent stuff
People make money off of creating violence, then condemning it
I really have to remove JonKatz from my list of
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according to the Census, there was estimated to be 272,690,813 as of July 1, 1999. This means that there would be 272,690,813 domains (ouch) taking up 2,726,908,130 Megabytes in storage (based on 10MB / person - assuming everyone uses all 10MB) which is about 2.5 terrabytes of data. That may not sound like much, but maintaining the records (aproximately 2.5 million people added annually, again according to US Census data) and the servers would be an expensive endeavor.
Don't get me wrong. I think its a great idea, just unrealistic. Now if we were able to do it in a request basis, I'd love to have my domain.
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I hate to beat the obvious about the this, but THIS IS TOTAL BULLSHIT. If I figgure out a way to take something that is mine (read I own it), I *HAVE A RIGHT* to be able to do to it as I see fit. If I want to take the speed delimiter chip out of my car (because I don't like it there) I have that right, even though it circumvents the methods that my car manufacturer planned. Why do companies like Adobe try to enforce these frivolous lawsuits. I for one am going to stop purchacing Adobe software from herein in favor of other tools like KIllustrator (whoops, can't use that name - its TRADEMARKED). Grrr....
Damn you Adobe.
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eLiza: Hello BOFH, there are 4,204 Help desk tickets in the Queue, should I process them now /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 ...
BOFH: No eLiza - have you been feeling well recently, run a diag, then pipe the output to
eLiza: running the following command... eLiza.diag >
eLiza:
BOFH: (thinking) *fix* annoying helpdesk problem - check
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First off let me state that I was in Beta4 of AO. Gamers such as myself that are really into the MMORPG genre have been anticipating this game for almost a year. I signed up for beta a long time ago, and when I finally got the e-mail that I was selected for the last round of beta testing, I was overjoyed. After spending 4 days just trying to download the 600 MB file with the install (mistake number 1) that was only initially mirrored on a few sites (mistake number 2), I purchaced a CD from a friend (for cost of media). Finally got it installed and played fine until I entered the main city for Omni Corps (the "bad" guys). Through some short-sighted thinking (in my opinion), the game has your video card render THE ENTIRE CITY AND ITS CONTENTS on that zone that are within your view range. This meant that in order to navigate through this beautiful world, I had to do most of it running backwards so that I could only see the wall to the outside world, and not the actual eye-popping eye-candy. I could literally hear my Voodoo 3 screaming at me. Zoning was a nightmare, not knowing if you'd actually zone, or forget to zone, or get disconnected, or blue screen. Shopping was impossible with the NPC vendors as they would only talk to one person at a time, and they were in the center of the city, where EVERYONE else was.
Coming from Asheron's Call, I'm not used to problems with lag. We have seperate shards based on where you want to play, not geographic region. There isn't 1 server for EVERYONE. Everyone should be split into shards, especially for the time being as I'm sure that their datacenters are going to be hard pressed to handle that much traffic (I actually ran it through my firewall, and it was using about 40% more traffic for normal play action [moving, running, shooting etc] than AC does).
The point is that there are companies that seem to be able to handle it, and companies that aren't unfortunatly it appears that Funcom is not. I truly regret that since I *really* want to play.
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here here - as an avid AC player, I have to say (as much as it pains me) that M$ and Turbine are doing everything right. When there were ping problem on servers, they opened new servers. The animation is for the most part flawless (except the Gear lamers) and with content that's CONSTANTLY updated in a good manner its the best that MMORPG's have to offer IMHO. As a Beta tester for AO - I have to say, I missed the interaction with the developers that AC seems to enjoy (all of them frequent the same message boards as us, and there's a monthly chat session for our shouts of UA LUB etc).
I'm staying away from AO until I get reports back that its stable and most of all playable.
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As mentioned, he has a site with sliderules on it. They didn't reference the site's address, but here it is. http://www.sliderule.ca/.
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Work at ISP with literally hundreds of UNIX boxen. This keeps it easy to type (we use kerb and login as root) and doesn't interfere with the other sysadmins preferences.
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This is not necessarily a good thing.
You're right, but the point is that we're not as dependant on public transportation as Europe is. This is because except for LARGE cities, public transportation in the US is mostly non-existant.
If we were truly commited to reducing emmisions, we'd all take a mag-lev to work every day. Unfortunately, we're not as opt to give up our freedom to drive as our other more publicly-minded european bretheren are.
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The fact that the Bush administration is backed by "Big Oil" *should* not interfere with the fact that the man still has a job to do. At this time, Oil is the most cost effective naturally obtainable resource available to the US, if ONLY we could get to it.
During the Clinton administratrion, they tried (and thankfully failed) to "restructure" health care so that it was in the hands of government agencies in its entirety. Did he do this out of the goodness of his heart? No - he did it because he was backed by the pharmecudical industry, and they knew it would be easier to scam the US government rather than the individual HMO companies out of millions each year.
Don't get the idea that polital agendas aren't anything else. So what if he wants to drill the oil out of the ANWR? What is it going to do sitting in the ground? Will it solve the Energy Crisis in California? Will it keep gas prices down here in the US. No, it won't. Keeping us from that oil is what keeps us dependant on foreign countries for our energy, at least until I have a neuclear reactor in my car (we have a lock on Uranium and Plutonium).
Also - how much farther hands-off do you want him to get if he doesn't repeal laws that hurt business.
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Unfortunately, AMD needs to get back up to speed with their processor clocks. When AMD came out with the worlds first 1Ghz, we were all in awe. Now that we're all waiting for the next thing coming out of their HQ, we have the choice with overclocking one of the 1.33 Ghz chips to a respectable speed or getting the Intel's running at 1.8Ghz and above.
:)
I hope AMD trumps Intel again and just throws out the 3Ghz chips, blindsiding Intel into throwing their hat into the Extreeme Speed ring when they're not ready again.
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The tax credits and such are nice, but people, not too unlike myself, demand a certain aspect of performance. My car at the moment, while certainly not ready for the Indy 500, is a 99 Dodge Avenger Sport with the 2.5 Litre V6 Engine. While available in an Inline 4 (not the sport model, but others), I found it to be relatively unresponsive and not quite ready for the open highway. Honda's ESV is a nice idea, but it has no acceleration nor top speed to be able to deal with normal commuting speed here in the Baltimore-Washington D.C. Corridor (generally 80 - 90 MPH or you'll get run over). If someone could come up with a viable market-ready electric vehicle capable of sustaining at least 150 horsepower and a decent amount of torque, then the American public would, IMHO, be more willing to accept it with open arms.
All opinions of course are my own, and I've been known to be wrong, but I'd personally pay the gas premium rather than give up my perfomance
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Is for M$ / AOL / @Home / Sony to get together and decide what *they* want you to watch. All they ads they see fit.
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Noone would have to, their software is so buggy that it generates plenty of its own.
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Nice try, but the results of the request have been boosted by Moore's Law. As CPU power increases, the amount of RC5-64 Blocks that *EACH* computer can process per time "T" also increases. In other words, my AMD K6-300 cranks out about 12 keys per day, whereas my Wife's AMD Thunderbird 750 cranks out aproximately 70 keys per day. As CPU increases, the contest accelerates. When we first took on this contest, we were looking at about 12 years to finish. Now we're looking at 8 years total at the *CURRENT* rate, and this doesn't even make RC5 the default contest for most new clients (OGR's - Optimal Golumb Rulers are the default). Geeks like myself have also kept around older boxes (like Pentiums) to do nothing all day but crack blocks.
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