I agree fully with all of your arguments, however I should point out that you may be surprised just how many people have heard of MP3s. Where I go to college, the dorms have ethernet (nice for d/ling MP3s) and because of it, just about every student with a computer uses MP3s. Even the kids who first got here and didn't know what the internet was have been introduced to MP3s. They're everywhere. And I imagine college students are a major market for CD sales...
Great idea.. send some flame mail to that address, then look out your window to see a mysterious black van parked out in front of your house indefinitely...
Well, (this is just speculation) I don't think they just used one Dual PII. I'm mainly making this guess based on the cost ($12,000). Perhaps the Dual PII is what one node is, and they have several of these nodes?
After upgrading my RH 5.2 system to 2.2.0, my mouse broke in Xfree86. I have a PS/2 Logitech wheel mouse. It was set to use the IntellimousePS/2 protocol, which caused it to jump around the screen when the mouse moved. Resetting the mouse mode to plain PS/2 fixed the problem, but of course now my wheel doesn't work. Any advice, anyone?
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I agree fully with all of your arguments, however I should point out that you may be surprised just how many people have heard of MP3s. Where I go to college, the dorms have ethernet (nice for d/ling MP3s) and because of it, just about every student with a computer uses MP3s. Even the kids who first got here and didn't know what the internet was have been introduced to MP3s. They're everywhere. And I imagine college students are a major market for CD sales...
What if Microsoft figures out how to genetically-reengineer Tux?
Great idea.. send some flame mail to that address, then look out your window to see a mysterious black van parked out in front of your house indefinitely...
Well, (this is just speculation) I don't think they just used one Dual PII. I'm mainly making this guess based on the cost ($12,000). Perhaps the Dual PII is what one node is, and they have several of these nodes?
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/weekly_cpu/
Hehe... how long until Microsoft decides they've had enough of all the bad press they receive on /. and target it with one of those machines?
BTW, the dhcp package packed with 5.2 does not work, grab the one out of the RawHide directory...
After upgrading my RH 5.2 system to 2.2.0, my mouse broke in Xfree86. I have a PS/2 Logitech wheel mouse. It was set to use the IntellimousePS/2 protocol, which caused it to jump around the screen when the mouse moved. Resetting the mouse mode to plain PS/2 fixed the problem, but of course now my wheel doesn't work. Any advice, anyone?