If a used one will do, I have a K6-III/450 AFX that I can sell you. That is the 2nd edition of the K6-III with slightly lower core voltage of 2.2 volt (the original AHX used 2.4 volt). This one will work in motherboards that don't have bios support for the K6-2+ / K6-III+ cpus.
E-Mail a resonable offer to leibold@hotmail.com
All my computers at home are selfmade and completely free of any microsoft tax. I did at one point purchase a copy of Windows to run tax software (use it once a year), but I made sure to get it as cheap as possible (OEM version, CD & license only).
On the Linux side I have bought a variety of distributions (TurboLinux, Mandrake, Caldera and a few others) until deciding that I liked SuSE the best. I have since then bought every release of SuSE for two reasons:
- I want them to stay in business
- I like the convenience of installing everything from a single DVD
While I do agree with many of the things that have already been said, I think a major factor that undermined Internet Redundancy is being overlooked. At first CIX (the Commercial Internet Exchange) seemed like a great benefit to the Internet as a whole. It provided a peering location for commercial Internet traffic and allowed to bypass the AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) that applied to the NSF sponsored portion of the Internet (restrictions that required network traffic to be primarily of educational or research nature). However as a direct result of the commercialization routing was changed from pure technical aspects (shortest path, etc.) to policy based routing. This means that only traffic from a paying ISP and one with a mutual peering agreement can pass. It is policy based routing that kills the self-healing properties of the Internet and it was CIX that introduced it into the Internet.
While newer versions of Solaris still run^H^H^Hwork on some systems with older Sparc processors the performance is really poor since the software is optimized for the ultrasparc architecture. Upgrading to a newer version of Solaris therefore often results in a noticable loss of performance. Nevermind all the systems that Sun no longer supports. I just installed SuSE Linux 7.0 on a 4 cpu Sun 630 without problems. Solaris 2.5 or 2.5.1 was the last version of Sun's operating system supporting this box.
If you read the comments on www.dslreports.com you will find that most complaints are about the long waits and other install related issues. Once everything is working DSL is great and nobody goes back to report that.
I got PacBell DSL in Sunnyvale over a year ago. There was a small delay, but it wasn't more than two weeks. The installer did a good job (decided the inhouse wiring wasn't up to par and installed a new line), but service didn't get activated until the next day (some misconfiguration at the central office). It was $49/month with 1 year term for 384Kbps download (burstable to 1.5Mbps). Everytime I check the actual speed it is near the 1.5Mbps maximum. I understand that PacBell has changed to PPPoE for new subscribers but at the time I signed up everybody got a static IP address. Soon afterwards PacBell reduced the monthly fee to $39 not only for new subscribers but also for their existing customer base.
There have been a few outages last year (one exceeded 8 hours if I remember correctly) and their tech support was rather clueless about them. Service has been fine since then.
The only complaint I have is that they try to make the billing very confusing (they wouldn't be a telco if they didn't!). One portion is added to the monthly fee for the phone line. Another charge is for their ISP services (email, website, etc) and a third charge is for the Global Network provider that handles your Internet traffic once it leaves the local PacBell network.
I'm very happy with PacBell DSL and recommend it to everyone.
SuSE 7.0 is already the third release of SuSE available on DVD. SuSE 6.3 and 6.4 shipped either as "CD Edition" (6 CD-Roms) or "DVD Edition". In SuSE 7.0 only the professional version contains the DVD, but it also includes the CDs (no longer either DVD or CDs). I don't have SuSE 7.0 yet, but tried both the SuSE 6.3 and 6.4 DVD Editions. Both the 6.3 and the 6.4 DVD were single layer DVDs. The advantage of the single layer DVD format is that it can be mastered on DVD-R drives for quality assurance purposes before stamping 1000s of them. Nevertheless the 6.3 DVD had some kind of mastering/manufacturing defect that made it incompatible with some DVD drives (including all DVD-Ram drives based on Matsushita hardware, e.g. Panasonic LF-D100 series and AOpen DVD520S). The 6.4 DVD worked fine in every drive I used. It's definitely more convenient than swapping CDs.
Exactly, the most important information is missing in the Slashdot article and the link it references. Where is the sign-up sheet ? I always wanted to travel in space and since I can't afford even a tourist class ticket from Mircorp (over $15 million) this seems like a good opportunity.
I guess I have to go back to buying lotto tickets;-)
I don't know whether knowing the history of Linux/Unix is necessary to appreciate the operating system, but it probably doesn't hurt. I do agree with you that this was an excellent interview. It is very obvious that the interviewer had done his homework and came with many good questions. If Mihai is reading these comments: thanks a lot!
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The cheaper update versions are only available in Germany (perhaps other countries served from Germany as well ?). They are not available for US customers.
I'm using the AOpen DVD-520S (OEM version of Panasonic LF-D101U) for about a year now with my Linux system. While I agree with everything said in the previous post by BitMan here are some additional hints for those planning to use DVD-RAM on Linux: - If you plan to put a ext2 filesystem on DVD-RAM use the 2k block size option (DVD-RAM media has a 2K sector size). - Writing 2.6GB (one side) sequentially with dd takes 14-16 hours using the scsi disk driver. Using the sg_dd utility (bs=2048 bpt=N*16) with the scsi generic driver it takes less than 80 minutes! As far as I can tell this is because the scsi disk driver actually writes individual 2K sectors and this just kills DVD-RAM performance. On DVD media the error correction information is spread over 16 sectors and writing a single sector requires the drive to read all sectors, make the requested update and recalculate the error correction data for all 16 sectors before writing the block of 16 sectors back to the media.
While it has already been pointed out a few times in various posts, the slashdot article is wrong in referring to DVD-RW. There are many competing formats for writable and rewritable DVD with lots of talk and very little in terms of product availability. DVD-RAM (Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi) and DVD-R (Pioneer) are available today. DVD-RW and DVD+RW are two different approaches for a DVD-RAM competitor (with Sony supporting both).
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If a used one will do, I have a K6-III/450 AFX that I can sell you. That is the 2nd edition of the K6-III with slightly lower core voltage of 2.2 volt (the original AHX used 2.4 volt). This one will work in motherboards that don't have bios support for the K6-2+ / K6-III+ cpus. E-Mail a resonable offer to leibold@hotmail.com
All my computers at home are selfmade and completely free of any microsoft tax. I did at one point purchase a copy of Windows to run tax software (use it once a year), but I made sure to get it as cheap as possible (OEM version, CD & license only).
On the Linux side I have bought a variety of distributions (TurboLinux, Mandrake, Caldera and a few others) until deciding that I liked SuSE the best. I have since then bought every release of SuSE for two reasons:
- I want them to stay in business
- I like the convenience of installing everything from a single DVD
While I do agree with many of the things that have already been said, I think a major factor that undermined Internet Redundancy is being overlooked. At first CIX (the Commercial Internet Exchange) seemed like a great benefit to the Internet as a whole. It provided a peering location for commercial Internet traffic and allowed to bypass the AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) that applied to the NSF sponsored portion of the Internet (restrictions that required network traffic to be primarily of educational or research nature). However as a direct result of the commercialization routing was changed from pure technical aspects (shortest path, etc.) to policy based routing. This means that only traffic from a paying ISP and one with a mutual peering agreement can pass. It is policy based routing that kills the self-healing properties of the Internet and it was CIX that introduced it into the Internet.
While newer versions of Solaris still run^H^H^Hwork on some systems with older Sparc processors the performance is really poor since the software is optimized for the ultrasparc architecture. Upgrading to a newer version of Solaris therefore often results in a noticable loss of performance. Nevermind all the systems that Sun no longer supports. I just installed SuSE Linux 7.0 on a 4 cpu Sun 630 without problems. Solaris 2.5 or 2.5.1 was the last version of Sun's operating system supporting this box.
If you read the comments on www.dslreports.com you will find that most complaints are about the long waits and other install related issues. Once everything is working DSL is great and nobody goes back to report that.
I got PacBell DSL in Sunnyvale over a year ago. There was a small delay, but it wasn't more than two weeks. The installer did a good job (decided the inhouse wiring wasn't up to par and installed a new line), but service didn't get activated until the next day (some misconfiguration at the central office). It was $49/month with 1 year term for 384Kbps download (burstable to 1.5Mbps). Everytime I check the actual speed it is near the 1.5Mbps maximum. I understand that PacBell has changed to PPPoE for new subscribers but at the time I signed up everybody got a static IP address. Soon afterwards PacBell reduced the monthly fee to $39 not only for new subscribers but also for their existing customer base.
There have been a few outages last year (one exceeded 8 hours if I remember correctly) and their tech support was rather clueless about them. Service has been fine since then.
The only complaint I have is that they try to make the billing very confusing (they wouldn't be a telco if they didn't!). One portion is added to the monthly fee for the phone line. Another charge is for their ISP services (email, website, etc) and a third charge is for the Global Network provider that handles your Internet traffic once it leaves the local PacBell network.
I'm very happy with PacBell DSL and recommend it to everyone.
Thomas
SuSE 7.0 is already the third release of SuSE available on DVD. SuSE 6.3 and 6.4 shipped either as "CD Edition" (6 CD-Roms) or "DVD Edition". In SuSE 7.0 only the professional version contains the DVD, but it also includes the CDs (no longer either DVD or CDs). I don't have SuSE 7.0 yet, but tried both the SuSE 6.3 and 6.4 DVD Editions. Both the 6.3 and the 6.4 DVD were single layer DVDs. The advantage of the single layer DVD format is that it can be mastered on DVD-R drives for quality assurance purposes before stamping 1000s of them. Nevertheless the 6.3 DVD had some kind of mastering/manufacturing defect that made it incompatible with some DVD drives (including all DVD-Ram drives based on Matsushita hardware, e.g. Panasonic LF-D100 series and AOpen DVD520S). The 6.4 DVD worked fine in every drive I used. It's definitely more convenient than swapping CDs.
Exactly, the most important information is missing in the Slashdot article and the link it references. Where is the sign-up sheet ? I always wanted to travel in space and since I can't afford even a tourist class ticket from Mircorp (over $15 million) this seems like a good opportunity.
;-)
I guess I have to go back to buying lotto tickets
I don't know whether knowing the history of Linux/Unix is necessary to appreciate the operating system, but it probably doesn't hurt. I do agree with you that this was an excellent interview. It is very obvious that the interviewer had done his homework and came with many good questions. If Mihai is reading these comments: thanks a lot!
The cheaper update versions are only available in Germany (perhaps other countries served from Germany as well ?). They are not available for US customers.
I'm using the AOpen DVD-520S (OEM version of Panasonic LF-D101U) for about a year now with my Linux system. While I agree with everything said in the previous post by BitMan here are some additional hints for those planning to use DVD-RAM on Linux:
- If you plan to put a ext2 filesystem on DVD-RAM use the 2k block size option (DVD-RAM media has a 2K sector size).
- Writing 2.6GB (one side) sequentially with dd takes 14-16 hours using the scsi disk driver. Using the sg_dd utility (bs=2048 bpt=N*16) with the scsi generic driver it takes less than 80 minutes!
As far as I can tell this is because the scsi disk driver actually writes individual 2K sectors and this just kills DVD-RAM performance. On DVD media the error correction information is spread over 16 sectors and writing a single sector requires the drive to read all sectors, make the requested update and recalculate the error correction data for all 16 sectors before writing the block of 16 sectors back to the media.
While it has already been pointed out a few times in various posts, the slashdot article is wrong in referring to DVD-RW. There are many competing formats for writable and rewritable DVD with lots of talk and very little in terms of product availability. DVD-RAM (Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi) and DVD-R (Pioneer) are available today. DVD-RW and DVD+RW are two different approaches for a DVD-RAM competitor (with Sony supporting both).