you still have io, memory, and chipset performance to improve or bog down your results
that aside, i'd love to see a single metric (really, just one) where a 1.2ghz p3 would get outperformed by 2 underclocked tualatin p3s (to make the competition fair - they'd blow the 600ebs away) on the exact same rig.
2x600mhz != 1.2ghz. it's more around 900mhz average, if you're lucky.
at least the scsi bigots will actually net some measurable performance increases if they drop some money on a 15k drive.
i sincerely hope openbsd continues to focus on OTHER things like openssh - you know, that thing you probably use every day of your life on your non-smp machine?. since most openbsd boxes are used as edge devices, the only big need for processing horespower is in crypto...
and that problem can be solved by purchasing a hifn-based pci crypto accellerator for $90 from soekris.com, thanks to openbsd's excellent hardware crypto accelerator support.
once you get past the crotch-grabbing aspect, low-end smp is not what most of the world would have you believe it is. high-end smp will likely get replaced by clustering of commodity hardware.
TAGGED QUEUEING HAS BEEN IN ATA FOR MANY YEARS
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goes back as far as the ibm 14gxp series, which has to be 6-7 years ago.
look at the sources for the ata controllers in your os
a package called 'entomb' is mentioned in unix power tools rev2 (o'reilly book...). it requires recompiling rm/mv/cp/etc against it, but it changes the way your system unlinks things.
after some digging, i found it was no longer where it USED to be at purdue's ftp site, but i was able to locate somebody that's actively using it as a base for undelete functionality in freebsd: http://www.itso.iu.edu/staff/ajk/projects.epl#Free BSD
perhaps you should contact him, or do further research on the entomb package. as an aside, the unix power tools cd has a 'delete' app that functions by renaming files (prefixing them with # iirc) and then doing something along the lines of a find nightly to actually delete old versions. you could simply hack something like this together for yourself and alias rm to it...
personally, i would rather see pepsi/coke instead of a generic COLA in a tv show. i think having a kfc in crazy taxi made the game more realistic.
when done in moderation, i think recognizable brands add value to a game.
i also think that i would REALLY prefer in-show ads (placement - not overt advertisement) to commercials. not that i watch much broadcast tv - just blind date and smallville:O
thoughts from a customer of speakeasy and covad
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speakeasy pros:
2 ips for same price as covad
no pppoe
speakeasy cons:
pop located in seattle for st louis customers, and they wouldn't relocate us to a closer one (chicago, etc). latency was over 100ms to anywhere
service started going out around 3-5am for periods up to 2 hours in the summer
covad pros:
pop located in chicago for st louis customers, 40ms latency to anywhere.
no install/hardware fees (they even let me skip their 'free after rebate' zyxel router because i didn't want to hassle with it and use my speakeasy service's dsl bridge)
price just dropped to $70/month for 384/1.5!
covad cons:
uses pppoe for static ips (?!) and only offers 1 static ip for telesoho service at regular price
had to sign up for another year to get the above-mentioned price drop
all things considered, i would recommend both
what about the fcc appeal that got overthrown?
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anybody have any thoughts about what will happen now that the telcos are not forced to share lines? the appeal was not granted, so this should be a huge problem for everyone but the telcos - line sharing is no longer government-mandated as of jan 2003.
but the real thing you should be thinking about are your writes. unless you're mounting the drive read-only, you WILL ruin the flash. each sector only supports a finite amount of writes. cameras, etc are aware of this and cycle the write zone to evenly wear it down, but an os will simply write wherever whenever. perhaps the 2.5 drives cost more because they have a firmware-implemented sector rolling design?
i've been using the win32 version for years and years without a single problem. that aside, i'll recommend the following since you're doing development:
ultraedit - www.ultraedit.com . even though i use vim more than anything, i keep it around for certain tasks and it's worth every penny. you didn't specify whether or not it had to be free...
cedit - cedit.sourceforge.net . free ultraedit clone attempt. i wouldn't know how it works, because it wouldn't run under xp:O
my advice is to try ultraedit, and a) if you like it and b) you're a cheap bastard, try cedit.
to wit, ibm implemented it first in their 14gxp series like 5 or 6 years ago. ide drives support it. ide controllers support it. the only limitation is the queue depth isn't as great.
but if you're using exchange 2000 you could use adduser.exe from the nt/2000 server resource kit to dump the usernames to a text file, then hack something together to parse it and add the users. to wit, it doesn't dump the passwords so you'll have to enter those back in or create new ones:O
wanna compare my ancient copy of 2.6 for intel to an equally ancient copy of linux? how about ancient solaris 2.6 sparc to equally ancient linux sparc? comparisons have been possible for MANY years.
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you still have io, memory, and chipset performance to improve or bog down your results
that aside, i'd love to see a single metric (really, just one) where a 1.2ghz p3 would get outperformed by 2 underclocked tualatin p3s (to make the competition fair - they'd blow the 600ebs away) on the exact same rig.
2x600mhz != 1.2ghz. it's more around 900mhz average, if you're lucky.
somebody at work installed it today, and they had xmms running.
call me crazy, but i could really care less about smp. i would wager the wide majority of smp systems fall into 2 categories:
1) unnecessarily powerful servers
2) unnecessarily powerful home braggart systems
database servers? sure. heavily loaded web servers? sure. file servers? NO. desktops? NO.
at least the scsi bigots will actually net some measurable performance increases if they drop some money on a 15k drive.
i sincerely hope openbsd continues to focus on OTHER things like openssh - you know, that thing you probably use every day of your life on your non-smp machine?. since most openbsd boxes are used as edge devices, the only big need for processing horespower is in crypto...
and that problem can be solved by purchasing a hifn-based pci crypto accellerator for $90 from soekris.com, thanks to openbsd's excellent hardware crypto accelerator support.
once you get past the crotch-grabbing aspect, low-end smp is not what most of the world would have you believe it is. high-end smp will likely get replaced by clustering of commodity hardware.
goes back as far as the ibm 14gxp series, which has to be 6-7 years ago.
look at the sources for the ata controllers in your os
ftp://ftp.physics.purdue.edu/pub/pundits/entomb-3. 9.tgz
/tmp (just plain
from the readme:
Source Contents:
The subdirectories in this directory contain the essential parts of a
file entombing system.
README This file.
Pkg.sh This shell script to build this package.
lib/entomb The source for a program that will entomb a file.
lib/libtomb The source for a library which provides entombing system API.
These system calls cause a fork/exec of the 'entomb' program, above.
etc/preend A daemon which makes sure the tombs don't get too full of
corpses.
bin/unrm A program that may be used to retrieve a file from a tomb.
bin/rmfile A "micro shell" to help novice users delete or entomb files
with nasty names (like "~", "-", and " ").
bin/untmp A quick spell to remove all my junk from
files, not subdirs). This cleans up well for run away mktemp's.
Paper A document describing how to install the entombing system,
and an (outdated) technical paper describing the system in detail.
a package called 'entomb' is mentioned in unix power tools rev2 (o'reilly book...). it requires recompiling rm/mv/cp/etc against it, but it changes the way your system unlinks things.
e BSD
after some digging, i found it was no longer where it USED to be at purdue's ftp site, but i was able to locate somebody that's actively using it as a base for undelete functionality in freebsd: http://www.itso.iu.edu/staff/ajk/projects.epl#Fre
perhaps you should contact him, or do further research on the entomb package. as an aside, the unix power tools cd has a 'delete' app that functions by renaming files (prefixing them with # iirc) and then doing something along the lines of a find nightly to actually delete old versions. you could simply hack something like this together for yourself and alias rm to it...
it was a joke, genius moderators...
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why don't you use a free perl binary and a free installer system?
personally, i would rather see pepsi/coke instead of a generic COLA in a tv show. i think having a kfc in crazy taxi made the game more realistic.
:O
when done in moderation, i think recognizable brands add value to a game.
i also think that i would REALLY prefer in-show ads (placement - not overt advertisement) to commercials. not that i watch much broadcast tv - just blind date and smallville
speakeasy pros:
2 ips for same price as covad
no pppoe
speakeasy cons:
pop located in seattle for st louis customers, and they wouldn't relocate us to a closer one (chicago, etc). latency was over 100ms to anywhere
service started going out around 3-5am for periods up to 2 hours in the summer
covad pros:
pop located in chicago for st louis customers, 40ms latency to anywhere.
no install/hardware fees (they even let me skip their 'free after rebate' zyxel router because i didn't want to hassle with it and use my speakeasy service's dsl bridge)
price just dropped to $70/month for 384/1.5!
covad cons:
uses pppoe for static ips (?!) and only offers 1 static ip for telesoho service at regular price
had to sign up for another year to get the above-mentioned price drop
all things considered, i would recommend both
anybody have any thoughts about what will happen now that the telcos are not forced to share lines? the appeal was not granted, so this should be a huge problem for everyone but the telcos - line sharing is no longer government-mandated as of jan 2003.
but the real thing you should be thinking about are your writes. unless you're mounting the drive read-only, you WILL ruin the flash. each sector only supports a finite amount of writes. cameras, etc are aware of this and cycle the write zone to evenly wear it down, but an os will simply write wherever whenever. perhaps the 2.5 drives cost more because they have a firmware-implemented sector rolling design?
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/
how about having lightning rods instead of using technology to determine equipment damage?
i've been using the win32 version for years and years without a single problem. that aside, i'll recommend the following since you're doing development:
:O
ultraedit - www.ultraedit.com . even though i use vim more than anything, i keep it around for certain tasks and it's worth every penny. you didn't specify whether or not it had to be free...
cedit - cedit.sourceforge.net . free ultraedit clone attempt. i wouldn't know how it works, because it wouldn't run under xp
my advice is to try ultraedit, and a) if you like it and b) you're a cheap bastard, try cedit.
to wit, ibm implemented it first in their 14gxp series like 5 or 6 years ago. ide drives support it. ide controllers support it. the only limitation is the queue depth isn't as great.
but if you're using exchange 2000 you could use adduser.exe from the nt/2000 server resource kit to dump the usernames to a text file, then hack something together to parse it and add the users. to wit, it doesn't dump the passwords so you'll have to enter those back in or create new ones :O
venture capital isn't a revenue stream. products that shit cash do not need vc.
that brought us the 'che che' motherboard - not surprised.
search google for it and see for yourself! aopen's site is virtually dead, and i don't want the blood on my hands for direct-linking some reviewer
putty stores all of its settings in the registry
"Question: Does PuTTY support storing its settings in a file instead of the Registry?
Answer: Not at present, although it's on the wish list."
they dropped the jet database starting with exchange 2000
even better...it's not just limited to management - the employees of the taco bell next door can do it too!
wanna compare my ancient copy of 2.6 for intel to an equally ancient copy of linux? how about ancient solaris 2.6 sparc to equally ancient linux sparc? comparisons have been possible for MANY years.
tagged queueing has been in ide drives for many, many years now