There is new material on there, and I was just wondering if anyone knew how to decipher this. I saw the movie, but I can't tell what they mean by this: (UPDATE: I just copied and pasted the below text from this link, and I realized that half of the hex code below is black text on a black background, and only shows up if you highlight it in your browser or copy and paste like I did. Check it out for yourself, I'm dying to know what the hell it means.
THE MATRIX: RELOADED covers a lot of ground. The future brings sections on visual effects, the ships, the creatures, the stunts, and much more. All things evolve. For those that understand this, perhaps the following will be understood.
0xA3B1A428
For the above hex, you will need a fairly fast computer and graphics card. An appreciation of the Neb is not a prerequisite (but it helps).
What if you change the client id of your data mining spider to something like "By granting me access you hereby waive all rights to privacy. Any data sent to me is mine to do with as I wish."
Then, if their web server still serves up the page to you it would seem to me that you would win a court case if it ever came to that.
Nice solution. I think that would work just great. I believe there is a service like Hushmail that does this already, but I can't think of the name. I don't know if they do the challenge response thing, but they do allow you to create many one-time email addresses, even enough to give every online merchant you buy from a different email address, so when you start to get spam from one you can immediately tell who's been selling your info.
I also have this problem with my new 30GB iPod. It is very annoying.
One thing I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed. Sometimes when I'm listening to my playlist and it goes from one song to the next, I get the click/pop, then when the music comes back on I the balance between left/right ears changes. The volume level of the left ear seems to decrease significantly. It is totally random when this happens.
I noticed this happening because I listen to a lot of DJ mix tapes and in between track changes, when the balance shifts dramatically this is a big deal. I can get it to shift back by stopping the iPod (hold down play for 2 seconds until it shuts off), then restarting playback, but only sometimes. Sometimes I have to stop it several times before it will do it.
Did anyone notice that in order to workaround automated systems that need to send legitimate email, such as Amazon when you buy something, or mailing lists you subscribe to, they give you a second email address that will not be protected by Challenge/Response?
I can see this being a big problem. In my experience, people only get spam if they have done one of several things:
1. Published their email address on a web page to be picked up by harvesters. 2. Given their email address to an online retailer that sells it. 3. Signed up for some spyware scam where they again give their email address to someone that will add it to a spam list. 4. Opened a Hotmail account, which, it seems is automatically sold to all the various spam providers.
In almost all of these cases, the act that caused spam to be received was the user giving out their email address to a non-trustworthy source.
How is having a second email address that people will just type into any webpage that promises free porn and bypasses Challenge/Response going to curb the spam problem? I give this system only 1-2 months before spam is back at it's initial volume, just using the new email address instead of the old.
You need to also educate users about the problems of giving their email address out to unreputable places on the net. A lot of users don't correlate their spam problem with the fact that they typed their email address into some website to get a free porno password the night before.
I don't think solaris can survive, simply too few seats to be viable except as a niche. It is bound to a single hardware platform which is itself starting to look old and tired with not much hope of fending of Pentium long term, let alone Itanium.
Perhaps you're not aware that Solaris runs quite well on the x86 architecture, and even supports PAE (page address extensions) for up to 64GB of RAM. Not only that, it's simply a matter of a quick recompile to support IA64 in the future.
Solaris is by no means dead yet, and it may be the only viable OS for all of those new Opteron systems that are going to be shipping soon.
Dell might be a good candidate for takeover... Pairing 64-bit Solaris with a 4-way or 8-way Opteron offering would be an extremely good fit.
"Voice-tuning" is usually done by a product made by Antares [antarestech.com] and has nothing to do with Pro Tools.
While I'm very familiar with the Antares product, having used Logic and Cubase with all sorts of plugins for quite some time, your argument is not that good. That's like saying "it's Kai's Power Tools that make all those Photoshop images look bad." Plugins are just that; they are tools that "plug in" to the main piece of software. Without the main piece of software they plug-in to, whether it's Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, or something else, they are nothing.
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Wow, that is a lot of decompression and recompression going on in your process. I know the difference might not be audible to you, but you should really reconsider your process. Every time you use a lossy compression scheme you are losing more and more data. Each compression algorithm has to compromise in some way and by using so many different types of compression (AAC to OGG to MP3), you are getting the disadvantages of all three algorithms combined in your output file.
If I were you I would just stick with one format change if possible. Go from AAC to OGG or AAC to MP3.
The Sparc architecture has supported memory scrubbing for quite some time. Single bit errors are logged properly to/var/adm/messages and the exact DIMM location is presented.
It's good to see the AMD Opteron finally adding this level of reliability to IA-32/64 hardware.
On another note... I think you're mistaken when you say it's normal for a PC to get single bit errors several times a week. On all the Sun boxes I work on if I'm getting single bit errors on any DIMM I replace it right away. A DIMM that begins to report single bit errors is most likely just hours away from a double bit error and that will definitely panic your box. I think you might have some bad memory.
Actually, I believe the new iPods will be available in 10, 20, and 40 GB versions. Apparently someone looked up the Toshiba 1.8" drives they are selling and there isn't a 30GB version of the drive, it just goes to 40 GB.
There are other speculations about a color screen; ability to play Quicktime content, etc., but these are just speculation. It may have a color screen, or it may not.
I also think some of the potential Bluetooth capabilities are pretty cool. Sony-Erricson already makes an MP3 player that works with the Sony-Erricson T68i mobile phones and automatically mutes your MP3s when a call comes in. You can also answer the call and hear it through your MP3 player's headset. This would be a killer feature, integration with standard Bluetooth phones as a Bluetooth headset.
What you're essentially talking about is having a Java-like write once, run anywhere implementation of video decompression codecs.
I think the concept is nice, however, current computing power is not yet efficient enough to handle this, much less in a consumer level device.
The WM9 HD compressed content already takes a PIV at 3 Ghz. just to play without stuttering, and these codecs are highly optimized for Intel, probably with assembly language and SSE2 instructions.
Now imagine the computing power necessary to implement that in a Java Virtual Machine or some platform-independent work-alike. The costs would be extraordinary.
Then, look years down the road when consumer level companies like Apex need to be able to make cost-effective players they can sell for $50 at Walmart. Think that will ever happen?
That is what really fueled the consumer level adoption of DVD as a format: having players that are so cheap and readily available that they only cost as much as a couple of movies.
If all of the players for a given format cost several thousand dollars each, that format will die before it ever reaches widespread adoption.
With the current level of computing power available in the world, I can't see anything like this happening in the next 10 years.
Not correct. According to the latest benchmarks, a 1.2ghz Ultrasparc III processor beats a 3 Ghz. Pentium IV. Don't compare 5 years ago's Ultrasparc II technology to todays fastest PIV chips, it's just not fair.
You obviously don't know what the hell you're doing. If you had any actual Solaris experience you would have known that you should boot off of the Solaris Software CD 1, not the Install CD. You should have installed the SUNWCXALL cluster of packages, download the latest 9_Recommended.zip patch cluster from ftp://sunsolve.sun.com, apply patch cluster, and you're set.
Really, how difficult is this? I can't believe this guy got modded up. This is as bad as those guys that do reviews of RedHat and say they couldn't get Xwindows to work so the OS must suck.
The lesson is: Solaris is no Mandrake. Don't expect it to be. That's why Solaris administrators make good money despite a bad economy.
Your screenshots look awesome! What distro are you running? Are you running a highly customized debian distro or something? Anyway, if it's not too complicated, I'd love to know how you got KDE and Kword to look so good.
Sorry, I don't have any details on how much the phone itself costs, but I would expect the rate plans to be identical to the current Sprint rate plans.
One of his major gripes with the service is the lack of Bluetooth phones. I read on PhoneScoop that Sprint PCS is going to start selling a Bluetooth enabled wireless phone very soon, in about May or so. The phone will be the Sony-Ericson T608, which is one hell of a phone, running the Symbian OS.
The only difference between this phone and the T610 that was featured earlier on Slashdot is that this phone doesn't have a built in camera. Not a big deal for me. I'm looking forward to having Bluetooth wireless data and synchronization with a Powerbook would be the shit!
I have a modded XBox and got a copy of FrodoX, a C64 emulator. Now I can play M.U.L.E. in all it's 4 player goodness on my large screen TV in the living room.
This is truly the way god intended man to play M.U.L.E., and although the graphics are dated, the game play is great. I highly recommend playing it this way.
Does anyone know if there is an Atari 800 emulator for XBox? I bet the Atari version has better graphics and sound than the C64 version. I used to be a big C64 "warez d00d" back in the day so that's pretty much the platform I'm used to.
I know, bad form to reply to your own question, but I answered my own post...
The first Sony Ericsson phone for Sprint PCS. Also the first CDMA phone with built-in Bluetooth for North America. Sports a color display, 1xRTT high-speed data, and Java downloadable applications.
The 1xRTT high-speed data, with Bluetooth will be the shiznitt! Combine that with a Sprint unlimited data plan and slurp all the 153kbps you want for just $45 a month.
Has anyone thought about the possibility of creating a Bluetooth enabled IP-telephony headset? I know it would kind of defeat the purpose of having a cellphone, but imagine if you could make free voice over data calls all day long on the Sprint network.... Definitely cool.
Hey, I was looking on PhoneScoop and I couldn't find out if the T608 that is coming out on Sprint supports 3G data. Do you know? I am about to switch to Sprint service in June and this could be the perfect phone for me.
I lust after 153kbps data via Bluetooth connected to a 17" Powermac. This just might be the perfect mobile setup...
I was also looking at the Samsung 330i which is great for it's Palm and full 3G data capability, but it only has an infrared port for synchronization, and using it as a wireless modem would really suck because Infrared isn't very fast.
Sorry, I shouldn't have said "much longer than 5 years". I was mainly thinking of the E10K, which as you've stated, was released in 1997. It supported either Solaris 2.51 or Solaris 2.6. Also, it did support hot-swap CPU and memory (through a process called DR or dynamic reconfiguration). Another thing that Sun servers have had since 1995 or so at least is the ability to notify you in syslog of single bit ECC errors. While not dynamically configuring out the memory, at least you were notified before those single-bit correctable errors turned into a double-bit error and took down your whole box.
Kernel hot-patching took a couple of years longer, and is now implemented through a process that is basically "patch-now while your system is running, then on next reboot the patched kernel is actually put in place."
I guess it probably is closer to 4.5 years ago, but my brain has been damaged from too much "Slashdot math":-) and 2003 - 5 = 1997 or pretty close.
Well, I sort of agree with you. However, Sun/HP/IBM were calling their Unix offerings five years ago 'enterprise' without having any of those features (even though the mainframe mostly did).
I'm afraid you're mistaken. Sun, HP, and IBM have had all of those features for much longer than 5 years.
Um. OC-192 is only 10 Gbps. That's more than most single computers can saturate today, but you do realize that that's the next step for Ethernet, right? Apple ships half of their computers with built-in 1000BASE-T today; I really don't know about PC's, but I would imagine that most of them have built-in gigabit as well. Sooner than you might realize, 10 Gbps Ethernet is going to be the next big thing on the desktop. Because we need it? Not really. But applications always tend to grow to consume all available resources.
Agreed, but keep in mind that most PCs can't even fully saturate a 1000baseT connection, and 10gbps is beyond the capabilities of a 64-bit 66mhz. PCI slot. PCI-X will practically be a requirement to properly utilize a 10Gbps Ethernet connection.
That's why you don't use a single computer on an OC-192. You use a gigantic Cisco 12000 that actually has enough memory bandwidth and raw processing power to be able to aggregate multiple OC-whatever connections and route the packets appropriately.
Anyone that would try to hook an OC-192 line up to a single host for anything other than testing purposes ought to be shot.
You know, I've run Linux on a Sun Ultra 5 before. If you read my comment closer you'll see that I said "64-bit throughout the OS".
Just because your kernel is 64-bit doesn't mean the rest of your OS is 64-bit at all. Are the GNU libraries 64-bit? Is every piece of software that you run on your system 64-bit?
Your comment shows a tremendous amount of ignorance when it comes to the difficulties of porting Linux and all supporting applications to a 64-bit architecture.
1. I use Gentoo at home, it's great. But the point is, you shouldn't have to install extra compatibility libraries to get binary compatibility. A mature OS shouldn't break conventions on every release. Enterprise customers want to know the code they write will run everywhere without installing extra libraries.
2. When you said "being worked on", I think that is the answer right there. It's not ready for primetime SMP yet.
3. When I see a 64-bit kernel running 64-bit hardware with all 64-bit libraries and all 64-bit software, then I'll believe it. Just because you could run one 32-bit app (Gimp) on a 64-bit kernel, I'm not impressed.
5. I've used Linux journaling filesystems for about a year now, but all of them are still in beta as far as I'm concerned. Don't just assume I have a complete lack of experience with these. I would love for them to be ready for primetime; they're just not. Here is my experience with Journaling filesystems on Linux:
Ext3 - Probably the most stable, but a little slow and based on ext2, which is not exactly the best place to start.
XFS - XFS worked fine for about 2 days until it died horribly and I lost my entire Gentoo installation. The Gentoo developers actually recommended using XFS, but every time I've tried using it I've lost data.
ReiserFS - Reiser worked best for me from my experience. Fast and I haven't lost data on it (yet). I've heard that if you put a heavy load on it you will see problems, but for a desktop it's worked great so far.
I'm not bashing Linux at all, I'm one of the biggest advocates where I work. I run Gentoo at home and it's a great OS. But in order for it to be considered seriously in the enterprise, it needs to mature a bit.
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There is new material on there, and I was just wondering if anyone knew how to decipher this. I saw the movie, but I can't tell what they mean by this: (UPDATE: I just copied and pasted the below text from this link, and I realized that half of the hex code below is black text on a black background, and only shows up if you highlight it in your browser or copy and paste like I did. Check it out for yourself, I'm dying to know what the hell it means.
THE MATRIX: RELOADED covers a lot of ground. The future brings sections on visual effects, the ships, the creatures, the stunts, and much more. All things evolve. For those that understand this, perhaps the following will be understood.
0xA3B1A428
For the above hex, you will need a fairly fast computer and graphics card. An appreciation of the Neb is not a prerequisite (but it helps).
More shortly.
TheMatrix.com
What if you change the client id of your data mining spider to something like "By granting me access you hereby waive all rights to privacy. Any data sent to me is mine to do with as I wish."
Then, if their web server still serves up the page to you it would seem to me that you would win a court case if it ever came to that.
Nice solution. I think that would work just great. I believe there is a service like Hushmail that does this already, but I can't think of the name. I don't know if they do the challenge response thing, but they do allow you to create many one-time email addresses, even enough to give every online merchant you buy from a different email address, so when you start to get spam from one you can immediately tell who's been selling your info.
I also have this problem with my new 30GB iPod. It is very annoying.
One thing I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed. Sometimes when I'm listening to my playlist and it goes from one song to the next, I get the click/pop, then when the music comes back on I the balance between left/right ears changes. The volume level of the left ear seems to decrease significantly. It is totally random when this happens.
I noticed this happening because I listen to a lot of DJ mix tapes and in between track changes, when the balance shifts dramatically this is a big deal. I can get it to shift back by stopping the iPod (hold down play for 2 seconds until it shuts off), then restarting playback, but only sometimes. Sometimes I have to stop it several times before it will do it.
Did anyone notice that in order to workaround automated systems that need to send legitimate email, such as Amazon when you buy something, or mailing lists you subscribe to, they give you a second email address that will not be protected by Challenge/Response?
I can see this being a big problem. In my experience, people only get spam if they have done one of several things:
1. Published their email address on a web page to be picked up by harvesters.
2. Given their email address to an online retailer that sells it.
3. Signed up for some spyware scam where they again give their email address to someone that will add it to a spam list.
4. Opened a Hotmail account, which, it seems is automatically sold to all the various spam providers.
In almost all of these cases, the act that caused spam to be received was the user giving out their email address to a non-trustworthy source.
How is having a second email address that people will just type into any webpage that promises free porn and bypasses Challenge/Response going to curb the spam problem? I give this system only 1-2 months before spam is back at it's initial volume, just using the new email address instead of the old.
You need to also educate users about the problems of giving their email address out to unreputable places on the net. A lot of users don't correlate their spam problem with the fact that they typed their email address into some website to get a free porno password the night before.
I don't think solaris can survive, simply too few seats to be viable except as a niche. It is bound to a single hardware platform which is itself starting to look old and tired with not much hope of fending of Pentium long term, let alone Itanium.
Perhaps you're not aware that Solaris runs quite well on the x86 architecture, and even supports PAE (page address extensions) for up to 64GB of RAM. Not only that, it's simply a matter of a quick recompile to support IA64 in the future.
Solaris is by no means dead yet, and it may be the only viable OS for all of those new Opteron systems that are going to be shipping soon.
Dell might be a good candidate for takeover... Pairing 64-bit Solaris with a 4-way or 8-way Opteron offering would be an extremely good fit.
"Voice-tuning" is usually done by a product made by Antares [antarestech.com] and has nothing to do with Pro Tools.
While I'm very familiar with the Antares product, having used Logic and Cubase with all sorts of plugins for quite some time, your argument is not that good. That's like saying "it's Kai's Power Tools that make all those Photoshop images look bad." Plugins are just that; they are tools that "plug in" to the main piece of software. Without the main piece of software they plug-in to, whether it's Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, or something else, they are nothing.
Wow, that is a lot of decompression and recompression going on in your process. I know the difference might not be audible to you, but you should really reconsider your process. Every time you use a lossy compression scheme you are losing more and more data. Each compression algorithm has to compromise in some way and by using so many different types of compression (AAC to OGG to MP3), you are getting the disadvantages of all three algorithms combined in your output file.
If I were you I would just stick with one format change if possible. Go from AAC to OGG or AAC to MP3.
The Sparc architecture has supported memory scrubbing for quite some time. Single bit errors are logged properly to /var/adm/messages and the exact DIMM location is presented.
It's good to see the AMD Opteron finally adding this level of reliability to IA-32/64 hardware.
On another note... I think you're mistaken when you say it's normal for a PC to get single bit errors several times a week. On all the Sun boxes I work on if I'm getting single bit errors on any DIMM I replace it right away. A DIMM that begins to report single bit errors is most likely just hours away from a double bit error and that will definitely panic your box. I think you might have some bad memory.
Actually, I believe the new iPods will be available in 10, 20, and 40 GB versions. Apparently someone looked up the Toshiba 1.8" drives they are selling and there isn't a 30GB version of the drive, it just goes to 40 GB.
There are other speculations about a color screen; ability to play Quicktime content, etc., but these are just speculation. It may have a color screen, or it may not.
I also think some of the potential Bluetooth capabilities are pretty cool. Sony-Erricson already makes an MP3 player that works with the Sony-Erricson T68i mobile phones and automatically mutes your MP3s when a call comes in. You can also answer the call and hear it through your MP3 player's headset. This would be a killer feature, integration with standard Bluetooth phones as a Bluetooth headset.
What you're essentially talking about is having a Java-like write once, run anywhere implementation of video decompression codecs.
I think the concept is nice, however, current computing power is not yet efficient enough to handle this, much less in a consumer level device.
The WM9 HD compressed content already takes a PIV at 3 Ghz. just to play without stuttering, and these codecs are highly optimized for Intel, probably with assembly language and SSE2 instructions.
Now imagine the computing power necessary to implement that in a Java Virtual Machine or some platform-independent work-alike. The costs would be extraordinary.
Then, look years down the road when consumer level companies like Apex need to be able to make cost-effective players they can sell for $50 at Walmart. Think that will ever happen?
That is what really fueled the consumer level adoption of DVD as a format: having players that are so cheap and readily available that they only cost as much as a couple of movies.
If all of the players for a given format cost several thousand dollars each, that format will die before it ever reaches widespread adoption.
With the current level of computing power available in the world, I can't see anything like this happening in the next 10 years.
Not correct. According to the latest benchmarks, a 1.2ghz Ultrasparc III processor beats a 3 Ghz. Pentium IV. Don't compare 5 years ago's Ultrasparc II technology to todays fastest PIV chips, it's just not fair.
You obviously don't know what the hell you're doing. If you had any actual Solaris experience you would have known that you should boot off of the Solaris Software CD 1, not the Install CD. You should have installed the SUNWCXALL cluster of packages, download the latest 9_Recommended.zip patch cluster from ftp://sunsolve.sun.com, apply patch cluster, and you're set.
Really, how difficult is this? I can't believe this guy got modded up. This is as bad as those guys that do reviews of RedHat and say they couldn't get Xwindows to work so the OS must suck.
The lesson is: Solaris is no Mandrake. Don't expect it to be. That's why Solaris administrators make good money despite a bad economy.
Your screenshots look awesome! What distro are you running? Are you running a highly customized debian distro or something? Anyway, if it's not too complicated, I'd love to know how you got KDE and Kword to look so good.
Sorry, I don't have any details on how much the phone itself costs, but I would expect the rate plans to be identical to the current Sprint rate plans.
One of his major gripes with the service is the lack of Bluetooth phones. I read on PhoneScoop that Sprint PCS is going to start selling a Bluetooth enabled wireless phone very soon, in about May or so. The phone will be the Sony-Ericson T608, which is one hell of a phone, running the Symbian OS.
The only difference between this phone and the T610 that was featured earlier on Slashdot is that this phone doesn't have a built in camera. Not a big deal for me. I'm looking forward to having Bluetooth wireless data and synchronization with a Powerbook would be the shit!
I have a modded XBox and got a copy of FrodoX, a C64 emulator. Now I can play M.U.L.E. in all it's 4 player goodness on my large screen TV in the living room.
This is truly the way god intended man to play M.U.L.E., and although the graphics are dated, the game play is great. I highly recommend playing it this way.
Does anyone know if there is an Atari 800 emulator for XBox? I bet the Atari version has better graphics and sound than the C64 version. I used to be a big C64 "warez d00d" back in the day so that's pretty much the platform I'm used to.
I know, bad form to reply to your own question, but I answered my own post...
The first Sony Ericsson phone for Sprint PCS. Also the first CDMA phone with built-in Bluetooth for North America. Sports a color display, 1xRTT high-speed data, and Java downloadable applications.
The 1xRTT high-speed data, with Bluetooth will be the shiznitt! Combine that with a Sprint unlimited data plan and slurp all the 153kbps you want for just $45 a month.
Has anyone thought about the possibility of creating a Bluetooth enabled IP-telephony headset? I know it would kind of defeat the purpose of having a cellphone, but imagine if you could make free voice over data calls all day long on the Sprint network.... Definitely cool.
Hey, I was looking on PhoneScoop and I couldn't find out if the T608 that is coming out on Sprint supports 3G data. Do you know? I am about to switch to Sprint service in June and this could be the perfect phone for me.
I lust after 153kbps data via Bluetooth connected to a 17" Powermac. This just might be the perfect mobile setup...
I was also looking at the Samsung 330i which is great for it's Palm and full 3G data capability, but it only has an infrared port for synchronization, and using it as a wireless modem would really suck because Infrared isn't very fast.
Thanks for the info and the link to a great site.
Sorry, I shouldn't have said "much longer than 5 years". I was mainly thinking of the E10K, which as you've stated, was released in 1997. It supported either Solaris 2.51 or Solaris 2.6. Also, it did support hot-swap CPU and memory (through a process called DR or dynamic reconfiguration). Another thing that Sun servers have had since 1995 or so at least is the ability to notify you in syslog of single bit ECC errors. While not dynamically configuring out the memory, at least you were notified before those single-bit correctable errors turned into a double-bit error and took down your whole box.
:-) and 2003 - 5 = 1997 or pretty close.
Kernel hot-patching took a couple of years longer, and is now implemented through a process that is basically "patch-now while your system is running, then on next reboot the patched kernel is actually put in place."
I guess it probably is closer to 4.5 years ago, but my brain has been damaged from too much "Slashdot math"
Cheers.
Well, I sort of agree with you. However, Sun/HP/IBM were calling their Unix offerings five years ago 'enterprise' without having any of those features (even though the mainframe mostly did).
I'm afraid you're mistaken. Sun, HP, and IBM have had all of those features for much longer than 5 years.
Um. OC-192 is only 10 Gbps. That's more than most single computers can saturate today, but you do realize that that's the next step for Ethernet, right? Apple ships half of their computers with built-in 1000BASE-T today; I really don't know about PC's, but I would imagine that most of them have built-in gigabit as well. Sooner than you might realize, 10 Gbps Ethernet is going to be the next big thing on the desktop. Because we need it? Not really. But applications always tend to grow to consume all available resources.
Agreed, but keep in mind that most PCs can't even fully saturate a 1000baseT connection, and 10gbps is beyond the capabilities of a 64-bit 66mhz. PCI slot. PCI-X will practically be a requirement to properly utilize a 10Gbps Ethernet connection.
That's why you don't use a single computer on an OC-192. You use a gigantic Cisco 12000 that actually has enough memory bandwidth and raw processing power to be able to aggregate multiple OC-whatever connections and route the packets appropriately.
Anyone that would try to hook an OC-192 line up to a single host for anything other than testing purposes ought to be shot.
Thanks for the flame.
You know, I've run Linux on a Sun Ultra 5 before. If you read my comment closer you'll see that I said "64-bit throughout the OS".
Just because your kernel is 64-bit doesn't mean the rest of your OS is 64-bit at all. Are the GNU libraries 64-bit? Is every piece of software that you run on your system 64-bit?
Your comment shows a tremendous amount of ignorance when it comes to the difficulties of porting Linux and all supporting applications to a 64-bit architecture.
1. I use Gentoo at home, it's great. But the point is, you shouldn't have to install extra compatibility libraries to get binary compatibility. A mature OS shouldn't break conventions on every release. Enterprise customers want to know the code they write will run everywhere without installing extra libraries.
2. When you said "being worked on", I think that is the answer right there. It's not ready for primetime SMP yet.
3. When I see a 64-bit kernel running 64-bit hardware with all 64-bit libraries and all 64-bit software, then I'll believe it. Just because you could run one 32-bit app (Gimp) on a 64-bit kernel, I'm not impressed.
5. I've used Linux journaling filesystems for about a year now, but all of them are still in beta as far as I'm concerned. Don't just assume I have a complete lack of experience with these. I would love for them to be ready for primetime; they're just not. Here is my experience with Journaling filesystems on Linux:
Ext3 - Probably the most stable, but a little slow and based on ext2, which is not exactly the best place to start.
XFS - XFS worked fine for about 2 days until it died horribly and I lost my entire Gentoo installation. The Gentoo developers actually recommended using XFS, but every time I've tried using it I've lost data.
ReiserFS - Reiser worked best for me from my experience. Fast and I haven't lost data on it (yet). I've heard that if you put a heavy load on it you will see problems, but for a desktop it's worked great so far.
I'm not bashing Linux at all, I'm one of the biggest advocates where I work. I run Gentoo at home and it's a great OS. But in order for it to be considered seriously in the enterprise, it needs to mature a bit.