"I'll always run Intel on servers and what not - but for a workstation/desktop you can't go wrong with AMD."
Actually, it's EXACTLY the inverse! Opterons have always been much nicer: HT bus, NUMA architecture and everything else, up until now, with Intel's QPI bus.
Indeed. I work for a high-endish network appliance shop, and the AMD Opterons have been the clear choice for us - having per-CPU memory controllers is such a massive performance gain when you're running memory I/O bound processes. We would've loved the extra CPU cycles from the current-gen Intels, but they're nowhere near enough to make up for the number of cycles we'd lose due to waiting for memory fetches. Now with Intel's i7 around the corner, we're looking at a very possible/probable shift over to Intel CPUs - those chips seem to seriously rock out and combine the best things from AMD with the best things from Intel.
On the home front I've been an AMD fan for the last however many years - after the P3 it's been all AMD. That is, up until the last system I assembled, where I ended up going for an Intel Q9450, since there really was no way I could justify sticking with AMD from a cost/performance view.
All I can say is that right now Intel is looking frighteningly good, and I hope it's not going to knock AMD over - I'm not keen on seeing Intel regain a monopoly position.
...but quickly realise that there is no known way to solve the problem and proceed to refuse to deal with any half-baked solution, while trying to come up with the One True Solution.
A good-quality shirt if you're a PC, a turtleneck if you're a mac, a T-shirt if you're linux, or a leather jacket if you're *bsd.
Check.
Slacks if you're a PC, black jeans if you're a mac or *bsd, blue jeans if you're linux.
Check.
Dress shoes if you're a PC, loafers if you're a mac, runners if you're linux, boots or sandals if you're *bsd.
Check.
No hat if you're a PC, a kepi if you're a mac, a ballcap if you're linux (a red one if you're Fedora/RHEL), and a shaved head if you're *bsd.
Umm... long hair for general *NIX?
A briefcase if you're a PC, a leather portfolio if you're a mac, a softsider if you're linux, and a pull-behind carrying a 4u server if you're *bsd.
I don't drag stuff with me (i.e. I don't do jobs requiring laptop hauling any more).
A crackberry if you're a PC, an iPhone if you're a mac, any flip-phone if you're linux, Chuck Norris if you're *bsd.
Check. Chuck Norris uses Palm OS, obviously.
Your resume in Word if you're a PC, as a video clip if you're a mac, in openoffice if you're linux, and 7-bit clean ASCII if you're *bsd.
Check.
Hide your Zune if you're a PC, subtly show off your iPod if you're a mac, wow them with streamripper if you're linux, and run a script to make the sound of the drive heads seeking play "Take this job and shove it!" if you're *bsd.
Damn kids these days with their sound dampened hard drive enclosures!
A business card if you're a PC, a mini-dvd if you're a mac, a bootable distro dvd with customized splash screen, borwser, etc., if you're linux, your phone number and email address on the back of a beer coaster if you're *bsd.
Almost check. Was mobile number on a napkin at the local pizza joint.
Coca-cola if you're a PC, bottled water if you're a mac, real beer (not that 5% piss) if you're linux, shots if you're *bsd.
I did start with DOS I suppose. But mainly it's that shots are expensive and I have a hard time working out how the hell stuff I wrote while drunk actually works...
It took me almost a week of emails back and forth to get my eBay account closed down (also in protest), and unless you find the one correct link on a page littered with links, it's impossible to get it closed. Even if they don't insist on PayPal, I'm not sure if I'll come back again.
I cancelled my account that I'd had for nearly 10 years (yikes!) and made sure they knew exactly why I closed it. A long time ago I got burned by PayPal and there's no way I'm ever using it again.
I'll keep an eye on Oztion and see if that takes off well enough to be useful. Looks promising so far.
Well, I don't know if it's the best, since I haven't got much to compare it against, but my Treo650 with pssh works quite well. It is by no means a replacement for a laptop with a vpn client, but it nicely handles the "service X has died for some reason and needs to be manually restarted" and "minor configuration tweak Y required" type scenarios.
The screen size is pretty good for a phone (640x640 resolution too), and while the font in terminal emulation is small, it's mostly readable. There are a few key-combos that allow relatively painless acccess to things like ctrl-c.
Overall I would say that it's Good, but not Excellent. Definitely haven't regretted the purchase though (and SSH support was a big deciding factor).
How many projects use five different programming languages? Well, let's see. Our current system: 1. Kernel modules. Written in C. 2. Core of the application. Written in C++ 3. GUI and reporting system. Written in Java. 4. Build environment. Written in Bourne shell script language. 5. Various pre-processing of code and/or data files. Written in perl. (6. Makefiles, if you count them as a separate language)
We certainly haven't been going out of our way to use as many languages as possible (quite the opposite), but in the end it's about using the language that makes the most sense for the task at hand.
While I fully agree with the folly of "listing every OS/language under the sun", many projects will use far more than a One True Language. This is not a bad thing, it's a sign of people being smart enough to realise that every problem is not a nail in search of a hammer:)
Nobody wants more glass-encased nuclear waste in their neighborhood
Actually, I'd happily trade the housing commission flats across the road for a nuclear waste storage silo. Less noise, and far more predictable risk factor than the umm... socially, economically and evidently intellectually challenged people in those flats.
Seriously, every anti-nuclear person harps on about the baaaaadness of waste storage, while ignoring the mess that coal and oil are currently generating. I'm not saying that nuclear is the be-all and end-all to energy - I'd love to see truly viable wind-, water- and solar-generated power, but until we get the technology to take us all the way there, shouldn't we at least try to use the best available solution? Ah, right, democracy - the tyranny of the uninformed masses. I forgot for a second. Oh well, the US of A seems to be working hard on obsoleting democracy, so maybe nuclear will have a chance after all:-P
Does this mean you should boycott Bertelsmann? It does seem a bit silly to boycott Random House (major book publisher and Bertelsmann subsidiary) over what happened to some music CDs, and yet that is what some are doing w.r.t. Sony Vaio, Sony cameras, etc.
Or maybe that's just what's needed. A bit of collateral damage to cause corporations to tell other corporations to lay off the bad moves. Because so far just having a bunch of customers doing it hasn't worked.
Personally, as a non-US citizen, I would feel safer about travelling to say, Iran, than the US as things are right now. I think I'd have a good chance of both entering AND leaving Iran. With the US I consider both doubtful. And I haven't even done anything that would "flag" me.
I pray you keep this madness confined to your own country!
But beware that if you use anything that requires readline, your app will be under the GPL. This may or may not be a problem, but it's something you need to be aware of.
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Indeed. I work for a high-endish network appliance shop, and the AMD Opterons have been the clear choice for us - having per-CPU memory controllers is such a massive performance gain when you're running memory I/O bound processes. We would've loved the extra CPU cycles from the current-gen Intels, but they're nowhere near enough to make up for the number of cycles we'd lose due to waiting for memory fetches. Now with Intel's i7 around the corner, we're looking at a very possible/probable shift over to Intel CPUs - those chips seem to seriously rock out and combine the best things from AMD with the best things from Intel.
On the home front I've been an AMD fan for the last however many years - after the P3 it's been all AMD. That is, up until the last system I assembled, where I ended up going for an Intel Q9450, since there really was no way I could justify sticking with AMD from a cost/performance view.
All I can say is that right now Intel is looking frighteningly good, and I hope it's not going to knock AMD over - I'm not keen on seeing Intel regain a monopoly position.
...but quickly realise that there is no known way to solve the problem and proceed to refuse to deal with any half-baked solution, while trying to come up with the One True Solution.
A good-quality shirt if you're a PC, a turtleneck if you're a mac, a T-shirt if you're linux, or a leather jacket if you're *bsd.
Check.
Slacks if you're a PC, black jeans if you're a mac or *bsd, blue jeans if you're linux.
Check.
Dress shoes if you're a PC, loafers if you're a mac, runners if you're linux, boots or sandals if you're *bsd.
Check.
No hat if you're a PC, a kepi if you're a mac, a ballcap if you're linux (a red one if you're Fedora/RHEL), and a shaved head if you're *bsd.
Umm... long hair for general *NIX?
A briefcase if you're a PC, a leather portfolio if you're a mac, a softsider if you're linux, and a pull-behind carrying a 4u server if you're *bsd.
I don't drag stuff with me (i.e. I don't do jobs requiring laptop hauling any more).
A crackberry if you're a PC, an iPhone if you're a mac, any flip-phone if you're linux, Chuck Norris if you're *bsd.
Check. Chuck Norris uses Palm OS, obviously.
Your resume in Word if you're a PC, as a video clip if you're a mac, in openoffice if you're linux, and 7-bit clean ASCII if you're *bsd.
Check.
Hide your Zune if you're a PC, subtly show off your iPod if you're a mac, wow them with streamripper if you're linux, and run a script to make the sound of the drive heads seeking play "Take this job and shove it!" if you're *bsd.
Damn kids these days with their sound dampened hard drive enclosures!
A business card if you're a PC, a mini-dvd if you're a mac, a bootable distro dvd with customized splash screen, borwser, etc., if you're linux, your phone number and email address on the back of a beer coaster if you're *bsd.
Almost check. Was mobile number on a napkin at the local pizza joint.
Coca-cola if you're a PC, bottled water if you're a mac, real beer (not that 5% piss) if you're linux, shots if you're *bsd.
I did start with DOS I suppose. But mainly it's that shots are expensive and I have a hard time working out how the hell stuff I wrote while drunk actually works...
Did I mention that I really really like my job? :)
According to the paper today they're still insisting on PayPal, despite what they've publicly said to the contrary.
It took me almost a week of emails back and forth to get my eBay account closed down (also in protest), and unless you find the one correct link on a page littered with links, it's impossible to get it closed. Even if they don't insist on PayPal, I'm not sure if I'll come back again.
I cancelled my account that I'd had for nearly 10 years (yikes!) and made sure they knew exactly why I closed it. A long time ago I got burned by PayPal and there's no way I'm ever using it again.
I'll keep an eye on Oztion and see if that takes off well enough to be useful. Looks promising so far.
The question is, will it be possible to install DNF on it?
An Internet-enabled, remote-controlled coffee-machine and XP backdoor -- what more could a hacker ask for?
Access to the coffee his new bot brews?
Damn, I'm going to be all out of bubble gum by then!
Well, I don't know if it's the best, since I haven't got much to compare it against, but my Treo650 with pssh works quite well. It is by no means a replacement for a laptop with a vpn client, but it nicely handles the "service X has died for some reason and needs to be manually restarted" and "minor configuration tweak Y required" type scenarios.
The screen size is pretty good for a phone (640x640 resolution too), and while the font in terminal emulation is small, it's mostly readable. There are a few key-combos that allow relatively painless acccess to things like ctrl-c.
Overall I would say that it's Good, but not Excellent. Definitely haven't regretted the purchase though (and SSH support was a big deciding factor).
Also, keep in mind that this was the company that predicted that WAP was going to be the Next Big Thing(tm)...
1. Kernel modules. Written in C.
2. Core of the application. Written in C++
3. GUI and reporting system. Written in Java.
4. Build environment. Written in Bourne shell script language.
5. Various pre-processing of code and/or data files. Written in perl.
(6. Makefiles, if you count them as a separate language)
We certainly haven't been going out of our way to use as many languages as possible (quite the opposite), but in the end it's about using the language that makes the most sense for the task at hand.
While I fully agree with the folly of "listing every OS/language under the sun", many projects will use far more than a One True Language. This is not a bad thing, it's a sign of people being smart enough to realise that every problem is not a nail in search of a hammer
Yeah, they're working on hauling the giant screen over right now.
Actually, I'd happily trade the housing commission flats across the road for a nuclear waste storage silo. Less noise, and far more predictable risk factor than the umm... socially, economically and evidently intellectually challenged people in those flats.
Seriously, every anti-nuclear person harps on about the baaaaadness of waste storage, while ignoring the mess that coal and oil are currently generating. I'm not saying that nuclear is the be-all and end-all to energy - I'd love to see truly viable wind-, water- and solar-generated power, but until we get the technology to take us all the way there, shouldn't we at least try to use the best available solution? Ah, right, democracy - the tyranny of the uninformed masses. I forgot for a second. Oh well, the US of A seems to be working hard on obsoleting democracy, so maybe nuclear will have a chance after all :-P
Or maybe that's just what's needed. A bit of collateral damage to cause corporations to tell other corporations to lay off the bad moves. Because so far just having a bunch of customers doing it hasn't worked.
To me it sounded more like "lucifer"...
If I had mod points that wouldn't be "Funny", that'd be "Sad but True".
Well, if I had modpoints and more flexibility in classification of comments.
For BSD it seems to be likewise hypocritical but also inferiority complex inflicted individuals who can't deal with the fact that GPL is more popular.
;-)
While you can certainly pin many attributes on Theo, I didn't think Multiple Personality Disorder was one of them
Nah, that wasn't Duke Nukem Forever, it was just StarCraft: Ghost with a mod to make it look like Duke ;-)
Personally, as a non-US citizen, I would feel safer about travelling to say, Iran, than the US as things are right now.
I think I'd have a good chance of both entering AND leaving Iran. With the US I consider both doubtful. And I haven't even done anything that would "flag" me.
I pray you keep this madness confined to your own country!
No, but Iraq was the Weapon of Mass Distraction.
Kept the US populace from looking too closely at all the bad things on the home turf.
You're right, I don't. That's why I asked the question :)
So, has anyone tried working out if various junk DNA already holds information that we'd be overwriting with this technique?
I mean, there are plenty of theories about "seeding" of life on earth after all... maybe we already have a wealth of untapped knowledge?
(Personally, I think it's extremely unlikely, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't be prudent to check anyway)
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I had to. I'm sorry.
But beware that if you use anything that requires readline, your app will be under the GPL. This may or may not be a problem, but it's something you need to be aware of.