With that many harddisks, one is bound to die within 12 months... and with the quality of most of them these days, it does not even have to be the oldest disk to die first.
"much more efficient than the very basic RFB protocol."
You're softening your own statements, because you probably know too about tightvnc (the exentions of which I believe are also supported in tridiavnc). Or maybe you don't know about it, since you seem to believe that RDP is better than RFB.
"For myself, movies in the theater look a little fuzzy to me. Not bad, but noticable."
Hmm interesting that you say that. I noticed that it seemed to me that 80% of the movies I see in the theater seem to bounce up and down a tiny bit at - I don't know - somewhere between 5-30 times per second. I never see that happening anywhere else. Is it just me or are there others that noticed that?
I guess you missed what microsoft recently had to do to avoid being slammed by one of those windows worms that have been creeping all along the windows-based part of the Internet for months: They have hired Akamai to cache their web sites all around the globe, and the akamai servers are taking the majority (all?) of the web hits now. And guess what akamai runs?
To get the proof from DNS, just type 'dig www.microsoft.com' ->
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.microsoft.com. 79 IN CNAME www.microsoft.com.edgesuite.net. www.microsoft.co m.edgesuite.net. 98 IN CNAME a562.cd.akamai.net. a562.cd.akamai.net. 13 IN A 63.209.144.169 a562.cd.akamai.net. 13 IN A 63.209.144.181 a562.cd.akamai.net. 13 IN A 63.209.144.182 a562.cd.akamai.net. 13 IN A 64.156.220.104 a562.cd.akamai.net. 13 IN A 64.156.220.105 a562.cd.akamai.net. 13 IN A 64.156.220.106 a562.cd.akamai.net. 13 IN A 63.209.144.166 a562.cd.akamai.net. 13 IN A 63.209.144.168
"Every time something new and grand happens with the Linux kernel, all the Zealots come flying out of the woodwork to praise how mighty and wonderful Linux is. Funny how that when Windows or Mac OS brought in that same feature 4 or 5 years ago"
Now I would like to know: grand linux kernel features like what existed in Windows 5 years before they existed in Linux?
"In some ways (RDC especially) they are better than anything Linux has"
Umm... With RDC being the RDP client, which is basically the same as VNC that uses RFB, which can easily be used over SSH and if you choose so with x0rfb, then the only way how RDC can be better than what is available on Linux is that it does not support Linux.
While I agree that IBM was then the big and well hated monopoly player of the era in the computer business, it hardly had anything to do with OSs for PCs, but much more with hardware, networks, micro's, mainframes, big disks, etc.
Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 3,817,183 Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 1,153.08 (13,836.98)
(Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05)) Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) = 7.80 (93.66)
(Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38)) Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 147.74 Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 155,765,672
(average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).
SLOCCount is Open Source Software/Free Software, licensed under the FSF GPL. Please credit this data as "generated using 'SLOCCount' by David A. Wheeler."
About the majority of linux boxes being headless or not, between his post and yours it weakened from a multiply stated strong fact to an assumption.
Even if the total desktop share of Linux is small in percentage compared to that other desktop OS, that still means a percentage of a much larger number of PCs.
If the "vast majority" of boxes were headless servers or cluster machines, then don't you think that there would be a lot more active linux distrubutions, forums, reviews, websites, etc, about issues for such setups. But quite a large portion of the activity in the largest Linux distributions and many linux forums and websites are about new or improved X11-based graphical desktop environments, graphical libraries, and graphical programs. Why would so many people care about gnome/kde, mozilla/konqueror/opera/firebird, openoffice/koffice/gnome-office, gimp/gnumeric/sodipodi/kivio/abiword, ximian, xfree86, mplayer/xine/libavifile/sdl/xv, mythtv/freevo, libfreetype, wine/winex/transgaming, etc. if that only represented the vast minority of Linux?
I wouldn't be so sure that the _vast_ _majority_ as the original poster states more than once is headless.
Besides, even for servers or other headless boxes, there may well be loads similar to an X server process combined with other processes that require a low latency (interactivity).
do something cpu intensive, such as mkisofs, cdrecord, bzip2 some huge file, cp anything large, installing (via aptitude) or even the "Reading Package Lists...." stage of apt-get update.
That's mainly disk intensive, not CPU intensive. It may help to check the unmaskirq and dma settings of your disks. (hdparm -u 1 -d 1/dev/hda).
This is where I can remark that Intel already effectively has two processors on a chip with their SMT Xeons, and that both AMD and Intel have made references to introducing even full multi-core CPUs. You don't need two CPU chips to need SMP anymore.
I wouldn't be surprised if the 'standard high-end desktop' will have a need for SMP in the near future because of the processors themselves.
People use many different definitions of what 'a year' is:
From The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) [devil]: YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
but in the most commonly used definition the year is defined by the orbit time around the sun, not just any object orbiting another.
With your logic, it takes years for many YoYo tricks to complete, and in atoms, a lot of time is spent by the electrons when orbiting the clumps of protons and neutrons, and I can have sex nonstop for years on end on a ferriswheel.
(hhmm, I couldn't paste the wordnet 'dict' output here, because the 'postercomment'/'lameness' filter thought it was lame...)
And there is indication to believe that water is also affected by gravity.
Oh, and light makes the darkness go away.
Green is a color, and dogs bark.
And honestly, this is not funny.
Why does something like that story get accepted on/.?
How Magnetic RAM Will Work... Since 1953!
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The title of that article is a bit misleading.
Remember that MRAM is not really new technology. It's a new implementation of something that already was used in a computer half a century ago: In 1953 ENIAC got its 100 words magnetic memory.
And the photo of that sputtering machine makes it look like some cool contraption from an old frankenstein movie... Need I say more?
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With that many harddisks, one is bound to die within 12 months... and with the quality of most of them these days, it does not even have to be the oldest disk to die first.
"redhat 8"
Hmm. Maybe try calling the RedHat support number?
It works fine on Debian sid after a simple 'apt-get install xclip'...
btw thanks for the tip rwuest.
"In fact, I have my Linux PDF Printer set up using SAMBA so the whole office can use it."
Yeah, I did that too, and the resulting PDF gets emailed to the user that printed the file.
"much more efficient than the very basic RFB protocol."
You're softening your own statements, because you probably know too about tightvnc (the exentions of which I believe are also supported in tridiavnc). Or maybe you don't know about it, since you seem to believe that RDP is better than RFB.
And we haven't even talked about NX yet.
"(Score:-1, Flamebait)"
Hmm... Tip for the moderators: Step one is denial.
Actually, the northern half of Japan is at 50Hz...
"For myself, movies in the theater look a little fuzzy to me. Not bad, but noticable."
Hmm interesting that you say that. I noticed that it seemed to me that 80% of the movies I see in the theater seem to bounce up and down a tiny bit at - I don't know - somewhere between 5-30 times per second. I never see that happening anywhere else. Is it just me or are there others that noticed that?
"Let me know when they have a TV that improves the script."
One that improves the script, eh?
What must have the best scripts of the world?
Hmm.
<Ogle>A TV that runs Perl.</Ogle>
I guess you missed what microsoft recently had to do to avoid being slammed by one of those windows worms that have been creeping all along the windows-based part of the Internet for months: They have hired Akamai to cache their web sites all around the globe, and the akamai servers are taking the majority (all?) of the web hits now. And guess what akamai runs?
To get the proof from DNS, just type 'dig www.microsoft.com' ->
"Every time something new and grand happens with the Linux kernel, all the Zealots come flying out of the woodwork to praise how mighty and wonderful Linux is. Funny how that when Windows or Mac OS brought in that same feature 4 or 5 years ago"
Now I would like to know: grand linux kernel features like what existed in Windows 5 years before they existed in Linux?
"In some ways (RDC especially) they are better than anything Linux has"
Umm... With RDC being the RDP client, which is basically the same as VNC that uses RFB, which can easily be used over SSH and if you choose so with x0rfb, then the only way how RDC can be better than what is available on Linux is that it does not support Linux.
All of that is easily taken care of by anybody willing to spend more than two minutes to read a manual.
Translation: You're incompetent.
While I agree that IBM was then the big and well hated monopoly player of the era in the computer business, it hardly had anything to do with OSs for PCs, but much more with hardware, networks, micro's, mainframes, big disks, etc.
Hmm. mythical cheering geeks... Sounds like a title for an article or book...
I did on linux-2.6.0-test5 using sloccount:
Or, apt-get install xpdf-utils, then pdftotext pinzari.pdf, and behold you have pinzari.txt...
;-)
;-)
But... But... But... That changes everything
About the majority of linux boxes being headless or not, between his post and yours it weakened from a multiply stated strong fact to an assumption.
Even if the total desktop share of Linux is small in percentage compared to that other desktop OS, that still means a percentage of a much larger number of PCs.
If the "vast majority" of boxes were headless servers or cluster machines, then don't you think that there would be a lot more active linux distrubutions, forums, reviews, websites, etc, about issues for such setups. But quite a large portion of the activity in the largest Linux distributions and many linux forums and websites are about new or improved X11-based graphical desktop environments, graphical libraries, and graphical programs. Why would so many people care about gnome/kde, mozilla/konqueror/opera/firebird, openoffice/koffice/gnome-office, gimp/gnumeric/sodipodi/kivio/abiword, ximian, xfree86, mplayer/xine/libavifile/sdl/xv, mythtv/freevo, libfreetype, wine/winex/transgaming, etc. if that only represented the vast minority of Linux?
I wouldn't be so sure that the _vast_ _majority_ as the original poster states more than once is headless.
Besides, even for servers or other headless boxes, there may well be loads similar to an X server process combined with other processes that require a low latency (interactivity).
Well,
;)"
"Amazing how the USA thinks they are ahead of everyone else...
M'kay I'll bite...
The last time I checked, the Samba team was in Australia (see whois samba.org ). And I challenge you to prove that Australia is part of the USA...
Hmm. Maybe it's not about what the USA thinks, but about what people outside the USA think?
Yummy. Brainfood!
do something cpu intensive, such as mkisofs, cdrecord, bzip2 some huge file, cp anything large, installing (via aptitude) or even the "Reading Package Lists...." stage of apt-get update.
/dev/hda).
That's mainly disk intensive, not CPU intensive. It may help to check the unmaskirq and dma settings of your disks. (hdparm -u 1 -d 1
"Like the vast majority of Linux boxes, mine runs in console mode only,"
Where did you get that statistic?
This is where I can remark that Intel already effectively has two processors on a chip with their SMT Xeons, and that both AMD and Intel have made references to introducing even full multi-core CPUs. You don't need two CPU chips to need SMP anymore.
I wouldn't be surprised if the 'standard high-end desktop' will have a need for SMP in the near future because of the processors themselves.
People use many different definitions of what 'a year' is:
From The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) [devil]:
YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
but in the most commonly used definition the year is defined by the orbit time around the sun, not just any object orbiting another.
With your logic, it takes years for many YoYo tricks to complete, and in atoms, a lot of time is spent by the electrons when orbiting the clumps of protons and neutrons, and I can have sex nonstop for years on end on a ferriswheel.
(hhmm, I couldn't paste the wordnet 'dict' output here, because the 'postercomment'/'lameness' filter thought it was lame...)
And there is indication to believe that water is also affected by gravity.
/.?
Oh, and light makes the darkness go away.
Green is a color, and dogs bark.
And honestly, this is not funny.
Why does something like that story get accepted on
The title of that article is a bit misleading.
Remember that MRAM is not really new technology. It's a new implementation of something that already was used in a computer half a century ago: In 1953 ENIAC got its 100 words magnetic memory.
And the photo of that sputtering machine makes it look like some cool contraption from an old frankenstein movie... Need I say more?