Remember also that this was with "magnetic drums" -- to write any data to disk you had to know the hardware and the controller very well to optimize writing and reading (transfer rate were, of course abysmal).
Seek time was nice however, with one head per track. A 1960 drum beats a 1990 harddisk.:-)
Educating management must be done the right way. Don't say "we can't implement this because of unix". Say "this stuff won't make you money!"
Tell them that unix is cruical for business in your department. Windows will be fine in other places, but "the right stuff for the executives isn' the right stuff for you"
Just as you don't make the truck drivers switch to the same trendy car the boss use - because that don't make sense (it would be a nasty loss, the big trucks are their moneymaking tool.) And unix is your tool to get the job done. Standardizing the *office* on w2k may make sense, but not this "special operation."
It's like his own personal Holocaust. And to think people died trying to escape what he has voluntarily performed upon himself.
Actually, I believe the tattoed serial number was the least of the holocaust victim's problems. So what if someone thinks a barcode is a cool tattoo? It is not as if they are forced to work until their death...
Or you could have just inserted the CD in Windows 2000 and had it install in seconds.
A hell of a lot more expensive, as I would have to buy windows 2000 first. And not in a few seconds either, as I would have to re-partition and install windows first. And then I would have to reinstall windows 2000 now and then when it breaks, possibly reinstalling the games, and so on. Until a new windows version comes up, and new games "runs better" with the newest windows. More money to microsoft.
Come on. ISOs are immensely useful. For example, I can download an ISO at 100Mb/s at work, burn a cd, and avoid downloading the same stuff at 64kb/s at home. Faster and cheaper!
And you probably don't want those with hundreds of machines to download the distribution to each?
Look, I don't know if I did this wrong back in my Debian days, but I wanted to try just one package from unstable. Just ONE. Well, that required me to update to the unstable libc.
But of course! That ONE package (probably) couldn't work with your older libc. Did you want a BROKEN install? Of course, if you believe the dependency is wrong, go ahead and use something like "dpkg -i package.deb --force-depends"
You don't have to pay attention to dependencies, if you know that your use of the program won't need the newer library.
Some linux users were attracted to the "free" aspect. So we don't buy much - we download free stuff. Including quite a few games. And then there are those who thinks clever C hacks are more fun than a game.
Or, you could start windows in bootlogged mode. A somewhat less dramatic solution than installing linux for this purpose.
No need for "installing linux" for this purpose. Boot off a linux installation floppy if all you want is to see what devices survived and how long will it run before it dies.
But consider what reflex augmentation could do in Warcraft 2, for example. One could write a script that caused the "mouse" to "click" on your Town Hall and Barracks, automatically creating peons and ogres at a set rate, while you controlled everything else.
I consider this one a game improvement, more than a cheat. Warcraft and many similiar games have bad user interfaces that becomes a limitation. Improving it is a good idea. Oh, and the programmer should offer such modifications to the other players to be fair. You gain more prestige by making the game interesting, then by winning it.
Counter-Strike can be even worse if friendly-fire is turned on. I'd prefer to play friendly fire, but teenage idiots will show up, deliberately killing their own team members, just to be obnoxious.
Yuck, that sort of people. Select your opponents wisely, or be prepared to do something that really hurts them. In this case, tricking them into running a virus/trojan of some kind so they can spend the rest of the day reinstalling.
And if there was any doubt of where you were... well you just runied it 'cause Shkval can't be used in a dog leg attack. Kind of like pinning a big Hear I am tag on your head.
These things move faster than the speed of sound in water. So sonar & similiar eqipment can't see an incoming shkval at all before it hits.
Taking a look at the trail after being hit may not be that interesting.
The only problem I can think of with this is those scummy retailers who are really good with a soldering iron and have a small pile of $.03 fuses. These aren't fuses on the circuit board, it is fuses on the silicon chip itself. You can't buy that kind of fuses. Of course, you can't stop the scum retailer who is really good with a electron microscope, clean-room and chip manufacturing equipment. But his fake chips will be a hell of a lot more expensive than the genuine ones.
How many "e-commerce" sites even have this kind of bandwith to the internet?
There are always someone. Now they can use a single machine instead of a server farm if they want to.
Then there's machines used for several simultaneous tasks. The higly efficient TUX server may not be used to its full capacity, but being efficient it leaves more time free to the other tasks the machine handles. That's always a good thing.
To generate high spec numbers such as this, you blast MS for running the GUI in kernel space and heres linux serving http from the kernel.
Interesting point, please note that a GUI is a lot more complex than this webserver functionality. Also, the webserver get a significant performance boost from this, whereas the GUI doesn't.
MS GUI may beat X in some cases, this however isn't due to X running in user space. It is more about X running via TCP/IP, and design differences.
Finally, if you don't want a kernel webserver, use apache or several others. You have the choice. Can you use windows with a non-kernel GUI?
Web administrators generally like to cluster machines with no more than four drives: any more and the OS spends more time searching for the file than delivering it.
Wrong! The OS don't search the drives for a file, that is an extremely stupid way of doing it. The OS knows what drive the file is on, and gets it from there. This leaves the other drives free for other work, such as serving other files.
Assuming the network traffic they built up was the same in each test (again, they are a little shaky on that as well), Windows is taking more time to search across 7 drives vs. Linux's 5.
Except it doesn't work that way. More drives gives better performance - not worse. Windows merely was uncapable of taking advantage of a better setup.
The main reason for not putting more than about 4 drives in a machine isbottlenecks. More than 4 drives on a scsi bus may saturate it. (You don't get worse performance, it just don't get better either.) Easily fixable by using several scsi adapters, then the next obstacle is a saturated pci bus. You may then use a machine with several PCI buses, or simply use two machines. The latter might be cheaper.
It would have been interesting to see FreeBSD thrown in, just because it's another open source system. Maybe there's a trend here? Easier to tweak open source systems to win benchmarks? Maybe they're just clearly better? Hmm.
Open source is definitely easier to tweak for performance. And easier to tweak for real-life workloads too.
My experience, has been, with Win2k, unless you specifically change it, all files (even those with a.HTML or.HTM) extension gets run through the ASP parser before being served. The ASP engine is hideously slow. If in face the tests were on plain run of the mill html pages, this is a big waste! Ouch. Another bug in win2k.
if he's so powerful, the Jedi would have detected him long before
Maybe they did detect him, but found he was too old for training. Or had the wrong attitude for a Jedi (you probably have, if you become a politician) or he didn't want to...
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Seek time was nice however, with one head per track. A 1960 drum beats a 1990 harddisk. :-)
Educating management must be done the right way. Don't say "we can't implement this because of unix". Say "this stuff won't make you money!"
Tell them that unix is cruical for business in your department. Windows will be fine in other places, but "the right stuff for the executives isn' the right stuff for you"
Just as you don't make the truck drivers switch to the same trendy car the boss use - because that don't make sense (it would be a nasty loss, the big trucks are their moneymaking tool.) And unix is your tool to get the job done. Standardizing the *office* on w2k may make sense, but not this "special operation."
Actually, I believe the tattoed serial number was the least of the holocaust victim's problems. So what if someone thinks a barcode is a cool tattoo? It is not as if they are forced to work until their death...
What if a parked car is struck by lightning, and the explosion shower bystanders with burning gasoline...
What if someone created a lethal weapon, and someone stole it and killed a bunch of people?
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Same thing.
You forget the even more obvious. The criminals don't even need to crack a robot guard. Organized crime will of course have their own armed robots.
People can be identified by security cameras. But all robots are perfectly equal once the serial numbers are removed.
This is usually called a "trap"
and who's responsible when it kills the milkman?
The one responsible for deploying the robot, typically the owner. Similiar to having land mines in your lawn to keep the neigbourhood kids out.
A hell of a lot more expensive, as I would have to buy windows 2000 first. And not in a few seconds either, as I would have to re-partition and install windows first. And then I would have to reinstall windows 2000 now and then when it breaks, possibly reinstalling the games, and so on. Until a new windows version comes up, and new games "runs better" with the newest windows. More money to microsoft.
Food for thought indeed.
And you probably don't want those with hundreds of machines to download the distribution to each?
But of course! That ONE package (probably) couldn't work with your older libc. Did you want a BROKEN install? Of course, if you believe the dependency is wrong, go ahead and use something like "dpkg -i package.deb --force-depends"
You don't have to pay attention to dependencies, if you know that your use of the program won't need the newer library.
Some linux users were attracted to the "free" aspect. So we don't buy much - we download free stuff. Including quite a few games. And then there are those who thinks clever C hacks are more fun than a game.
No need for "installing linux" for this purpose. Boot off a linux installation floppy if all you want is to see what devices survived and how long will it run before it dies.
I consider this one a game improvement, more than a cheat. Warcraft and many similiar games have bad user interfaces that becomes a limitation. Improving it is a good idea. Oh, and the programmer should offer such modifications to the other players to be fair. You gain more prestige by making the game interesting, then by winning it.
Yuck, that sort of people. Select your opponents wisely, or be prepared to do something that really hurts them. In this case, tricking them into running a virus/trojan of some kind so they can spend the rest of the day reinstalling.
These things move faster than the speed of sound in water. So sonar & similiar eqipment can't see an incoming shkval at all before it hits.
Taking a look at the trail after being hit may not be that interesting.
Float to the surface, and start up those rockets. Keep flying/bouncing until there is speed enough, then dive.
The only problem I can think of with this is those scummy retailers who are really good with a soldering iron and have a small pile of $.03 fuses. These aren't fuses on the circuit board, it is fuses on the silicon chip itself. You can't buy that kind of fuses. Of course, you can't stop the scum retailer who is really good with a electron microscope, clean-room and chip manufacturing equipment. But his fake chips will be a hell of a lot more expensive than the genuine ones.
There are always someone. Now they can use a single machine instead of a server farm if they want to.
Then there's machines used for several simultaneous tasks. The higly efficient TUX server may not be used to its full capacity, but being efficient it leaves more time free to the other tasks the machine handles. That's always a good thing.
Interesting point, please note that a GUI is a lot more complex than this webserver functionality. Also, the webserver get a significant performance boost from this, whereas the GUI doesn't.
MS GUI may beat X in some cases, this however isn't due to X running in user space. It is more about X running via TCP/IP, and design differences.
Finally, if you don't want a kernel webserver, use apache or several others. You have the choice. Can you use windows with a non-kernel GUI?
Trivially easy - almost everywhere. Buy one without a harddisk - and a spare harddisk. Yes, you have to put the disk in yourself.
Now i have images of people being forcably propelled up a busy shopping street while screaming for help.
They won't need to run like mad. Simply jump in place till you can turn off ignition.
Wrong! The OS don't search the drives for a file, that is an extremely stupid way of doing it. The OS knows what drive the file is on, and gets it from there. This leaves the other drives free for other work, such as serving other files.
Assuming the network traffic they built up was the same in each test (again, they are a little shaky on that as well), Windows is taking more time to search across 7 drives vs. Linux's 5.
Except it doesn't work that way. More drives gives better performance - not worse. Windows merely was uncapable of taking advantage of a better setup.
The main reason for not putting more than about 4 drives in a machine isbottlenecks. More than 4 drives on a scsi bus may saturate it. (You don't get worse performance, it just don't get better either.) Easily fixable by using several scsi adapters, then the next obstacle is a saturated pci bus. You may then use a machine with several PCI buses, or simply use two machines. The latter might be cheaper.
Open source is definitely easier to tweak for performance. And easier to tweak for real-life workloads too.
My experience, has been, with Win2k, unless you specifically change it, all files (even those with a .HTML or .HTM) extension gets run through the ASP parser before being served. The ASP engine is hideously slow. If in face the tests were on plain run of the mill html pages, this is a big waste! Ouch. Another bug in win2k.
Maybe they did detect him, but found he was too old for training. Or had the wrong attitude for a Jedi (you probably have, if you become a politician) or he didn't want to ...