Wow, your wrong in so many ways. People die from huffing every day. Inhaling fumes whether it's a gas resulting from chemicals, rotting food, or human excrement does not have favorable outcomes.
That's the Indigo2 you are talking about which was extremely ugly and packed tight because of its pizza-box style box. The Indigo was a much nicer design and I don't know many people who wouldn't have drooled over it when it was current.
Linux will, but the patch is experimental. Surprisingly NetBSD and OpenBSD do not, but they support the same CPU on different models so I'm unclear as to why support hasn't been completely added yet.
So I guess I stand corrected, IRIX does sound better than Linux with experimental patches:P.
You are correct, but I was talking about linux development in particular at the time. Seeing as how OpenGL was publically released in 1992, was a open API, and Torvald's *began* working on what would eventually become Linux in 1991 it can hardly be considered a project specifically contributed to linux. I did mention GLX, which is probably what you meant, when I corrected myself.
I believe the Octane came with IRIX 6.4 which was considered extremely unreliable. I would definitely recommend upgrading if you haven't already. I don't know where you have been looking, but you can get IRIX 6.5.x for around $20 on ebay. There is nothing particularly special about IRIX though, unless it's for sentimental reasons there are better operating systems available to you. I can definitely understand sentimental reasons, after all I have a Sun Sparc 4/5/20 and an UltraSparc 60 sitting here beside me and I own Solaris versions as old as 2.5.1.
Honestly if you check their website it doesn't appear that graphics has been their focus for a while. They certainly don't stress it anyway. They don't even sell workstations anymore: just servers, HPCs, and data storage solutions.
They've pretty much already done this. The last major release of IRIX was in 1998. They stopped selling MIPS IRIX in 2006 and end-of-life for MIPS IRIX is 2013. Though they specifically state MIPS IRIX I can't find any mention of continuing versions based on other architectures. Not to mention, very few people wanted to run IRIX outside of SGI systems. So in effect, IRIX is currently stagnant beyond minor patches and will soon be completely dropped. They do, on the other hand, offer linux on all their new systems and have been doing so for years. They make some claims as to have "given back" to the linux community but I'm not sure how true that is. I doubt they'll ever opensource IRIX, it's a dinosaur and very likely it would die out as quickly as OpenDarwin. There is barely room for new opensource operating systems out there, much less ones that haven't been significantly updated in 10 years.
Not exactly true. You don't have to have a certification to teach in a private school. Most public systems provide temporary certificates and there are plenty of alternative teacher certification programs out there. Yes, it'll usually involve taking some extra coursework, but not necessarily an entire BA/MAT/etc to get it done. That's assuming that you will be teaching in a field that you already have received a degree for.
Yes, but unlike every other major chip manufacturer the SPARC/ULTRASPARC architectures have stayed largely the same. Relatively recently the chips have gone multi-core and multi-threaded, but the chips are similar enough to have maintained backwards compatibility for the past 15 years. Intel had just entered the 32bit arena 15 years ago. Want to talk about wasting money? My god look at the Itanium, that's Intel's main offering for high-end servers. The Itanium has been and still is a complete failure. SUN has stretched its R&D dollar far more than Intel could ever dream of. I'd be willing to bet good money if you compared R&D for the past two decades SUN's expenditures would be a comparative pittance. SUN made some big mistakes, not the least of which was failing to fully embrace the low-end market -- but when it comes to mid-to-high end servers they were (and still are) brilliant. Unfortunately brilliance does not necessarily make one successful.
"I don't intend to flamebait but seriously, the world doesn't spin around the US."
From what I've read many Swede's feel that Swedish copyright law is such to appease foreign corporate companies. Gee, I wonder where all those software companies are based? No, the world doesn't spin around the U.S. Unfortunately it does spin around large corporations.
And please, don't think you know the American public based on your small experience. We are hardly a homogeneous people.
Lol, you can pick those up for $200, maybe less. I have one sitting right here that I use to teach kids about other architectures. Whoever that is is hoping for an idiot to come walking along. You can get a much, much nicer system for that kind of cash.
>>First you have to know where it is located
make search name=foo
>>Then you have open the login shell as root,
Last I checked, this is the exact same process you would follow with apt.
>>Then you CD to that directory start the build
>>which will take half a day on some machines..
Yes that is one disadvantage of a source based system, but the advantages are too numerous to list.
As a side note, PCBSD comes with KDE installed and FreeBSD has binary installations available of the newest versions of both. If binary is the way you prefer to go what is holding you back?
Honestly the vast majority of your problems/concerns go back to you not RTFM. FreeBSD has excellent documentation, use it.
It's because your not leveraging the port system's strengths. In short your confusing the entire ports systems with pre-compiled packages. The port system was created, at least in spirit, to be a compile-from-source solution. The binary packages that are released, are released at the time of their corresponding FreeBSD release and, for the most part, aren't updated afterwords.
Use the port system as it was intended and you'll find that it is in actuality much more up-to-date than Debian (no matter the version) and as minimalistic or monolithic as you want it. In short your attempting to apply what you've learned of Debian practices to FreeBSD and your obviously setting yourself up to fail.
For the most part this article is sensationalism, it's about tenured teachers and it's not nearly as big of a deal as the article makes it out to be. If the teacher was bad to begin with they should have *never* reached tenured status. It takes two years to tenure in California. While that's incredibly quick compared to Georgia (some counties throw out tenure entirely), it's plenty of time for the administration to notice and take care of the problem assuming they're not sleeping on the job. These schools sowed what they reaped and they are just as worthy of blame as the teachers themselves.
This is sophistry at its finest. What exactly do you think a virus is? A virus is a program, just like any other that you download and run. Just because a user is ignorant of what they are allowing their computer to do is irrelevant. Never mind the fact that your definition would effectively exclude most viruses made before the last decade, DOS TSR viruses/trojans for instance.
If Alice does not want to accept the responsibilities that go along with ownership of it, should it not go to the next rightful person? Fighting a patent merely to avoid licensing fees seems backwards to me. It would be one thing if Alice wanted her rights. The patent system is meant to protect an inventor's rights. If an inventor does not wish to claim those rights then that's his/her issue, not the person who wishes to get out of spending a buck.
Honestly, I understand what your saying on some level, but the patent system is so fundamentally screwed up that I don't see an easy answer. The second person is not always a "patent troll." Sometimes they are merely a researcher unfortunate enough to be second. If the first researcher doesn't wish to accept the responsibility that comes with his invention, why not allow the second? Allowing consumers to avoid licensing fees seems a selfish reason to me.
The right thing would have been to contact the owners of said prior art and let them deal with it. If they don't choose to fight the patent, then this guy's true intentions are pretty obvious. Considering what he had to go through, contacting the researchers or their institution would have been much easier.
I don't agree that a DB that breaks with the "traditional" RDBMS model is necessarily "slack." There are plenty of non-RDBMS out there that are fully ACID compliant. Have your cake and eat it too.
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Wow, your wrong in so many ways. People die from huffing every day. Inhaling fumes whether it's a gas resulting from chemicals, rotting food, or human excrement does not have favorable outcomes.
"Otherwise, TLI looks similar, API-wise, to sockets."
So if the Sockets API is limiting.. how exactly does it help to take on an alternative, but similar API?
That's the Indigo2 you are talking about which was extremely ugly and packed tight because of its pizza-box style box. The Indigo was a much nicer design and I don't know many people who wouldn't have drooled over it when it was current.
Here try this link at the same site: http://www.obsolyte.com/sgi_indigo/
Linux will, but the patch is experimental. Surprisingly NetBSD and OpenBSD do not, but they support the same CPU on different models so I'm unclear as to why support hasn't been completely added yet.
So I guess I stand corrected, IRIX does sound better than Linux with experimental patches :P.
You are correct, but I was talking about linux development in particular at the time. Seeing as how OpenGL was publically released in 1992, was a open API, and Torvald's *began* working on what would eventually become Linux in 1991 it can hardly be considered a project specifically contributed to linux. I did mention GLX, which is probably what you meant, when I corrected myself.
I believe the Octane came with IRIX 6.4 which was considered extremely unreliable. I would definitely recommend upgrading if you haven't already. I don't know where you have been looking, but you can get IRIX 6.5.x for around $20 on ebay. There is nothing particularly special about IRIX though, unless it's for sentimental reasons there are better operating systems available to you. I can definitely understand sentimental reasons, after all I have a Sun Sparc 4/5/20 and an UltraSparc 60 sitting here beside me and I own Solaris versions as old as 2.5.1.
Yeah I always had a soft spot for the SGI Indigo, though the thing was built like a tank and sported the biggest graphics cards I've seen to date.
Yeah somehow I had forgotten about projects like XFS, fam, and GLX, among other things.
Honestly if you check their website it doesn't appear that graphics has been their focus for a while. They certainly don't stress it anyway. They don't even sell workstations anymore: just servers, HPCs, and data storage solutions.
They've pretty much already done this. The last major release of IRIX was in 1998. They stopped selling MIPS IRIX in 2006 and end-of-life for MIPS IRIX is 2013. Though they specifically state MIPS IRIX I can't find any mention of continuing versions based on other architectures. Not to mention, very few people wanted to run IRIX outside of SGI systems. So in effect, IRIX is currently stagnant beyond minor patches and will soon be completely dropped. They do, on the other hand, offer linux on all their new systems and have been doing so for years. They make some claims as to have "given back" to the linux community but I'm not sure how true that is. I doubt they'll ever opensource IRIX, it's a dinosaur and very likely it would die out as quickly as OpenDarwin. There is barely room for new opensource operating systems out there, much less ones that haven't been significantly updated in 10 years.
Not exactly true. You don't have to have a certification to teach in a private school. Most public systems provide temporary certificates and there are plenty of alternative teacher certification programs out there. Yes, it'll usually involve taking some extra coursework, but not necessarily an entire BA/MAT/etc to get it done. That's assuming that you will be teaching in a field that you already have received a degree for.
Your right. I wonder how they ever became the leader of the market to become one of the most successful high-end server manufacturers ever?
Yes, they plummeted, but because of their failure to change with the market. Up until 2001 they were a major player.
Yes, but unlike every other major chip manufacturer the SPARC/ULTRASPARC architectures have stayed largely the same. Relatively recently the chips have gone multi-core and multi-threaded, but the chips are similar enough to have maintained backwards compatibility for the past 15 years. Intel had just entered the 32bit arena 15 years ago. Want to talk about wasting money? My god look at the Itanium, that's Intel's main offering for high-end servers. The Itanium has been and still is a complete failure. SUN has stretched its R&D dollar far more than Intel could ever dream of. I'd be willing to bet good money if you compared R&D for the past two decades SUN's expenditures would be a comparative pittance. SUN made some big mistakes, not the least of which was failing to fully embrace the low-end market -- but when it comes to mid-to-high end servers they were (and still are) brilliant. Unfortunately brilliance does not necessarily make one successful.
"I don't intend to flamebait but seriously, the world doesn't spin around the US."
From what I've read many Swede's feel that Swedish copyright law is such to appease foreign corporate companies. Gee, I wonder where all those software companies are based? No, the world doesn't spin around the U.S. Unfortunately it does spin around large corporations.
And please, don't think you know the American public based on your small experience. We are hardly a homogeneous people.
>>The dangers of IBM are that they are highly
:P
>>unstable requiring an enormous investment
>when things go wrong. e.g. MQSeries, SP2, OS360.
Seriously? You support your argument with three technologies, one close to 40 years old and the newest being 7 years old?
I promise, IBM does very much want to sell you a machine and support -- you just made a lot of salesman cry.
Lol, you can pick those up for $200, maybe less. I have one sitting right here that I use to teach kids about other architectures. Whoever that is is hoping for an idiot to come walking along. You can get a much, much nicer system for that kind of cash.
>>First you have to know where it is located
make search name=foo
>>Then you have open the login shell as root,
Last I checked, this is the exact same process you would follow with apt. >>Then you CD to that directory start the build >>which will take half a day on some machines.. Yes that is one disadvantage of a source based system, but the advantages are too numerous to list. As a side note, PCBSD comes with KDE installed and FreeBSD has binary installations available of the newest versions of both. If binary is the way you prefer to go what is holding you back? Honestly the vast majority of your problems/concerns go back to you not RTFM. FreeBSD has excellent documentation, use it.
It's because your not leveraging the port system's strengths. In short your confusing the entire ports systems with pre-compiled packages. The port system was created, at least in spirit, to be a compile-from-source solution. The binary packages that are released, are released at the time of their corresponding FreeBSD release and, for the most part, aren't updated afterwords. Use the port system as it was intended and you'll find that it is in actuality much more up-to-date than Debian (no matter the version) and as minimalistic or monolithic as you want it. In short your attempting to apply what you've learned of Debian practices to FreeBSD and your obviously setting yourself up to fail.
For the most part this article is sensationalism, it's about tenured teachers and it's not nearly as big of a deal as the article makes it out to be. If the teacher was bad to begin with they should have *never* reached tenured status. It takes two years to tenure in California. While that's incredibly quick compared to Georgia (some counties throw out tenure entirely), it's plenty of time for the administration to notice and take care of the problem assuming they're not sleeping on the job. These schools sowed what they reaped and they are just as worthy of blame as the teachers themselves.
This is sophistry at its finest. What exactly do you think a virus is? A virus is a program, just like any other that you download and run. Just because a user is ignorant of what they are allowing their computer to do is irrelevant. Never mind the fact that your definition would effectively exclude most viruses made before the last decade, DOS TSR viruses/trojans for instance.
If Alice does not want to accept the responsibilities that go along with ownership of it, should it not go to the next rightful person? Fighting a patent merely to avoid licensing fees seems backwards to me. It would be one thing if Alice wanted her rights. The patent system is meant to protect an inventor's rights. If an inventor does not wish to claim those rights then that's his/her issue, not the person who wishes to get out of spending a buck. Honestly, I understand what your saying on some level, but the patent system is so fundamentally screwed up that I don't see an easy answer. The second person is not always a "patent troll." Sometimes they are merely a researcher unfortunate enough to be second. If the first researcher doesn't wish to accept the responsibility that comes with his invention, why not allow the second? Allowing consumers to avoid licensing fees seems a selfish reason to me.
The right thing would have been to contact the owners of said prior art and let them deal with it. If they don't choose to fight the patent, then this guy's true intentions are pretty obvious. Considering what he had to go through, contacting the researchers or their institution would have been much easier.
Right... So every scientist that ever questioned a theory hates people or works for an oil company. Go go progress!
I don't agree that a DB that breaks with the "traditional" RDBMS model is necessarily "slack." There are plenty of non-RDBMS out there that are fully ACID compliant. Have your cake and eat it too.
I guess it works if you picture Google as taking on a Borg-like mentality.