No MS defines the market for operating systems. You may not have heard this but over 90% of all computers run MS operating systems.
Bullshit.
Only 16% of all webservers on the internet run that crap from Redmond.
Second, only 80% of all desktop computers run Windoze.
With servers it is quite a different story.
According to some sources MS is losing ground fast in the server market.
Linux and different other Unixes are on the way up.
And that is a good thing.
That might sound like marketing-speak, but for better or worse, its true. NT is there in the server farms of America, and it is staying up and
performing in spite of itself. Get used to seeing Win2k more and more in the server farms you visit in coming years.
This is a good point.. Someone should compare things like how much a single machine can handle (none of this server farm crap).. Of course 20
Windows NT will allow you to have "zero downtime"... but is it comparing apples to apples ?
The German CT did an article about clusters running Solaris, Linux and NT.
NT on average broke down ten times more than Linux and Solaris.
Also, the average downtime of a machine running NT was 1,5 hours compared with 10 minutes for Solaris and Linux.
Especialy in clusters Linux and Solaris are a better choice.
NT still has this problem with high load situations.
It just crashes under high system load.
Win2000 should fix this, but 2000 is still less stable than Linux or Solaris.
If there were so many badly managed, boring IT jobs there would be many more candidates available looking for something better.
I'm looking for something better.
There is nothing more depressing than to work as a system operator at a Windoze firm.
Windoze kills creativity.
I'm from origin a Mac-user and I love to work with Cisco stuff and Linux.
Up till now I haven't found a job which I could do both.
And i'm really getting depressed with my current job.
Take cash machines. I want to be able to use all cash machines. Solution one is having one bank so all cash machines are run by the same company. Solution two is all banks co-operate (like the link network in the UK) now I can use virtually all cash machines but there's still competition between banks.
Guess what?
We already have this in the Netherlands.
I can get money with my girocard from an ABN-AMRO ATM and almost every other bank.
And I can get money with my ABN-AMRO card from a postgiro ATM.
So it is possible.
doh! Guess I should have tried to parse your crappy sentence structure a bit better. I'm not sure why all RC cars aren't powered by gas but a couple easy guesses:
gas == danger to kids (big market for rc cars)
gas == more expensive than recharging battery
gas == more upkeep than battery powered engine
Well, you are part wrong.
In the Netherlands many cars use LPG and natural gas for combustion.
In the Neterlands almost most houses are heated with natural gas.
And many hospitals etc. already use the system GE now introduces.
You get best of all :
electricity
heat
Hot water
The only problem is, that it is only cheaper for large buildings.
The logicboard of the iMac II is very small and uses very little power.
Based on the UMA 1 chipset, it is a very fast logicboard.
The memory-, AGP- and PCI controller are all integrated in one chip and supports concurent datatransfer.
The videochip is connected through AGP and everything else (IDE controller, USB, Firewire is all connected) is connect with the PCI-bus.
The UMA architecture is a successor of the MPC106 (aka crackle) chipset (one chip) and can run at 100 Mhz..
The succesor of the UMA 1 chip will be the UMA 2 chip which supports 133 Mhz SDram and DDRram.
Second, it will also support AGP 4*.
Would the military allow this? what if someone overseas wanted to bid... exporting super comuter tech is against the law.. isn't it?
Well, most firms have a solution for that problem.
They just build them outside the USA.
And don't forget that most European research institutes had lots of Gray's.
Apple solved the problem quiete easily.
The G4 processor is build in Asia.
Second, Apple has a plant in Ireland and Singapore where they assemble those G4-machines for sales outside the US.
The only problem Apple has is that importing those machines into the US is quite expensive.
That's why Apple only imports the processors and assemble those G4's in two fabs in the US.
The same goes for IBM, Compaq and Sun.
Outside the US there is nobody boycotting Cuba, Syria etc..
US law doesn't count outside the US ((-;
No way.
The DMCA doesn't conform to European law.
Second, there are some laws herte which make it legal to make copies from books, cd's and videotapes for use at home.
It is quit legal to copy a software CD-rom and put the original in a safe and use the copy.
OS X will never ship, except to developers, and even that will cease when it is inevitably abandoned. Apple just don't have the resources for that kind of project these days. The people capable of producing the goods left long ago.
Strange, MacOS X server already ships.
And in januari MacOS X will be available.
And most NEXT developers are still working at Apple.
So this is FUD.
Okay, don't buy any CDs from any other companies either, then, or even blank CDRs, because Sony has a patent (or at least a trademark) and they get royalties for every one that is produced.
Nope, they don't get a cent.
They sold their share to the inventor of the CD.
A little Dutch company called Philips.
Philips get's 12 cents (US-dollar) for each CD sold.
32-bit PCI busses allow for only 132MB/sec (32 bits at 133Mhz) or 264MB/s (if you're lucky enough to get a 64-bit extension on that bus of yours).
That's why Apple uses an 64 bits PCI chip inside every new G4.
32 bits PCI is not the standard for the future.
The future is 64 bits PCI at 66 Mhz. (That's around 512 Mbyte/sec).
Yeah, compared to those afwul IBM and Toshiba laptops for $ 2999 (which are a much bigger ripoff) the Powerbooks are cheap compared with equal configured PC laptops.....
And... Many IBM machines are made by Acer.
Compaq had some big problems with laptops some years ago (in the time that a 486 at 100 Mhz. was fast).
Ever heard about Compaq replacing them?
Had something to do with memory.
When you wanted to expand the memory to more than 8 Mb you couldn't...
Second, ever heard of the fact that Toshiba sold more than one million laptops with a defect floppydrive.
Ever heard about Toshiba replacing floppydrives?
That's why every Apple Macintosh has standard 10/100 ethernet....
Ethernet is more and more becoming THE standard.
And modems (especially analog) are on the way out.
Most people are switching to ISDN, ADSL or cable.
Most ISDN-routers also have an ethernetconnector.
That's tight, if you don't have windows 95 or 98 or an Imac, you are refused installation
Very simple.
Get a Win95 machine with the ethernetcard you want to use in your Linuxmachine.
Let them install it, and when they are away get your Linux machine get the networkcard out of the Win95 machine and put it in the Linuxmachine and everything should be working.
No problem.
This worked for me.
And change from a sturdy laptop to a piece of shit made in Japan? Sorry, but the VAIO is the only laptop which doesn't survive normal use for longer than 4 month's. My Apple powerbook still works after 2 years.
Here in the Netherlands we have five mobile GSM-providers. And like Italy there are almost as many mobile phones as telephone lines. I use a little perlscript on my Linuxrouter which checks some other routers and servers. If one of them goes down I get a SMS message and an email message. SMS is great. I'm paying Fl 30 ($ 14) and get 100 minutes free. If I call more I pay Fl 0,30 a minute. And SMS is around Fl 0,40 ($ 0,19) a message.
What else is new? Doesn't the US-goverment and many US company's do the same? Ever heard about that problem with Lockheed and the Dutch government? Had something to do with Prince Bernhard too.......
To make things even more interesting... Apple sold some Powermacs 9500 and 8500 with dual processor cards made by Daystar. Apple always provided the specs of the processorcards to everybody.
Every second generation PowerMac (7500,7600, 7300, 8500, 8600, 9500, 9600 and newer) have an OpenFirmware bootrom. And most PCI-video, SCSI and other cards for the Mac have an OpenFirmware bootrom.
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They went to Lucent to codevelop the new 11Mbit/sec version of Wavelan. Wavelan is an old proven technology and Apple wanted something they could trust and has a good track record. Lucent renamed Wavelan to Orinoco (or something) and is now selling the 11 Mbit/sec version in PC-CARD form for laptops. There are even drivers for Windows 2000.
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No MS defines the market for operating systems. You may not have heard this but over 90% of all computers run MS operating systems.
Bullshit.
Only 16% of all webservers on the internet run that crap from Redmond.
Second, only 80% of all desktop computers run Windoze.
With servers it is quite a different story.
According to some sources MS is losing ground fast in the server market.
Linux and different other Unixes are on the way up.
And that is a good thing.
That might sound like marketing-speak, but for better or worse, its true. NT is there in the server farms of America, and it is staying up and
performing in spite of itself. Get used to seeing Win2k more and more in the server farms you visit in coming years.
This is a good point.. Someone should compare things like how much a single machine can handle (none of this server farm crap).. Of course 20
Windows NT will allow you to have "zero downtime"... but is it comparing apples to apples ?
The German CT did an article about clusters running Solaris, Linux and NT.
NT on average broke down ten times more than Linux and Solaris.
Also, the average downtime of a machine running NT was 1,5 hours compared with 10 minutes for Solaris and Linux.
Especialy in clusters Linux and Solaris are a better choice.
NT still has this problem with high load situations.
It just crashes under high system load.
Win2000 should fix this, but 2000 is still less stable than Linux or Solaris.
If there were so many badly managed, boring IT jobs there would be many more candidates available looking for something better.
I'm looking for something better.
There is nothing more depressing than to work as a system operator at a Windoze firm.
Windoze kills creativity.
I'm from origin a Mac-user and I love to work with Cisco stuff and Linux.
Up till now I haven't found a job which I could do both.
And i'm really getting depressed with my current job.
Take cash machines. I want to be able to use all cash machines. Solution one is having one bank so all cash machines are run by the same company. Solution two is all banks co-operate (like the link network in the UK) now I can use virtually all cash machines but there's still competition between banks.
Guess what?
We already have this in the Netherlands.
I can get money with my girocard from an ABN-AMRO ATM and almost every other bank.
And I can get money with my ABN-AMRO card from a postgiro ATM.
So it is possible.
doh! Guess I should have tried to parse your crappy sentence structure a bit better. I'm not sure why all RC cars aren't powered by gas but a couple easy guesses:
gas == danger to kids (big market for rc cars)
gas == more expensive than recharging battery
gas == more upkeep than battery powered engine
Well, you are part wrong.
In the Netherlands many cars use LPG and natural gas for combustion.
In the Neterlands almost most houses are heated with natural gas.
And many hospitals etc. already use the system GE now introduces.
You get best of all :
electricity
heat
Hot water
The only problem is, that it is only cheaper for large buildings.
The logicboard of the iMac II is very small and uses very little power.
Based on the UMA 1 chipset, it is a very fast logicboard.
The memory-, AGP- and PCI controller are all integrated in one chip and supports concurent datatransfer.
The videochip is connected through AGP and everything else (IDE controller, USB, Firewire is all connected) is connect with the PCI-bus.
The UMA architecture is a successor of the MPC106 (aka crackle) chipset (one chip) and can run at 100 Mhz..
The succesor of the UMA 1 chip will be the UMA 2 chip which supports 133 Mhz SDram and DDRram.
Second, it will also support AGP 4*.
i wonder how long it will be before your common every day laptop pulls a gigaflop
Wait till Apple releases it's Powerbook G4.
Up to 3,6 Gflop vector unit inside the G4 processor with a sustained rate of 1 Gflop.
Would the military allow this? what if someone overseas wanted to bid... exporting super comuter tech is against the law.. isn't it?
Well, most firms have a solution for that problem.
They just build them outside the USA.
And don't forget that most European research institutes had lots of Gray's.
Apple solved the problem quiete easily.
The G4 processor is build in Asia.
Second, Apple has a plant in Ireland and Singapore where they assemble those G4-machines for sales outside the US.
The only problem Apple has is that importing those machines into the US is quite expensive.
That's why Apple only imports the processors and assemble those G4's in two fabs in the US.
The same goes for IBM, Compaq and Sun.
Outside the US there is nobody boycotting Cuba, Syria etc..
US law doesn't count outside the US ((-;
CSS is not a copy protection system.
It is a content protection system.
It is very simple to copy a DVD (i've seen it with a DVD-R writer).
No way.
The DMCA doesn't conform to European law.
Second, there are some laws herte which make it legal to make copies from books, cd's and videotapes for use at home.
It is quit legal to copy a software CD-rom and put the original in a safe and use the copy.
USB 2.0 will be big because Intel will build it in "for free" in 75% of the chipsets out there.
Nope, $ 0,25 a port goes to Intel like normal USB.
OS X will never ship, except to developers, and even that will cease when it is inevitably abandoned. Apple just don't have the resources for that kind of project these days. The people capable of producing the goods left long ago.
Strange, MacOS X server already ships.
And in januari MacOS X will be available.
And most NEXT developers are still working at Apple.
So this is FUD.
Okay, don't buy any CDs from any other companies either, then, or even blank CDRs, because Sony has a patent (or at least a trademark) and they get royalties for every one that is produced.
Nope, they don't get a cent.
They sold their share to the inventor of the CD.
A little Dutch company called Philips.
Philips get's 12 cents (US-dollar) for each CD sold.
32-bit PCI busses allow for only 132MB/sec (32 bits at 133Mhz) or 264MB/s (if you're lucky enough to get a 64-bit extension on that bus of yours).
That's why Apple uses an 64 bits PCI chip inside every new G4.
32 bits PCI is not the standard for the future.
The future is 64 bits PCI at 66 Mhz. (That's around 512 Mbyte/sec).
Yeah, compared to those afwul IBM and Toshiba laptops for $ 2999 (which are a much bigger ripoff) the Powerbooks are cheap compared with equal configured PC laptops.....
And... Many IBM machines are made by Acer.
Compaq had some big problems with laptops some years ago (in the time that a 486 at 100 Mhz. was fast).
Ever heard about Compaq replacing them?
Had something to do with memory.
When you wanted to expand the memory to more than 8 Mb you couldn't...
Second, ever heard of the fact that Toshiba sold more than one million laptops with a defect floppydrive.
Ever heard about Toshiba replacing floppydrives?
That's why every Apple Macintosh has standard 10/100 ethernet....
Ethernet is more and more becoming THE standard.
And modems (especially analog) are on the way out.
Most people are switching to ISDN, ADSL or cable.
Most ISDN-routers also have an ethernetconnector.
That's tight, if you don't have windows 95 or 98 or an Imac, you are refused installation
Very simple.
Get a Win95 machine with the ethernetcard you want to use in your Linuxmachine.
Let them install it, and when they are away get your Linux machine get the networkcard out of the Win95 machine and put it in the Linuxmachine and everything should be working.
No problem.
This worked for me.
And change from a sturdy laptop to a piece of shit made in Japan?
Sorry, but the VAIO is the only laptop which doesn't survive normal use for longer than 4 month's.
My Apple powerbook still works after 2 years.
Here in the Netherlands we have five mobile GSM-providers.
And like Italy there are almost as many mobile phones as telephone lines.
I use a little perlscript on my Linuxrouter which checks some other routers and servers.
If one of them goes down I get a SMS message and an email message.
SMS is great.
I'm paying Fl 30 ($ 14) and get 100 minutes free.
If I call more I pay Fl 0,30 a minute.
And SMS is around Fl 0,40 ($ 0,19) a message.
What else is new?
Doesn't the US-goverment and many US company's do the same?
Ever heard about that problem with Lockheed and the Dutch government?
Had something to do with Prince Bernhard too.......
To make things even more interesting...
Apple sold some Powermacs 9500 and 8500 with dual processor cards made by Daystar.
Apple always provided the specs of the processorcards to everybody.
To make things worse.. they used OpenGL for the 3D work.
I thin they are going to switch to the bloody M$ crap for 3D.
That's not very good.
Every second generation PowerMac (7500,7600, 7300, 8500, 8600, 9500, 9600 and newer) have an OpenFirmware bootrom.
And most PCI-video, SCSI and other cards for the Mac have an OpenFirmware bootrom.
They went to Lucent to codevelop the new 11Mbit/sec version of Wavelan.
Wavelan is an old proven technology and Apple wanted something they could trust and has a good track record.
Lucent renamed Wavelan to Orinoco (or something) and is now selling the 11 Mbit/sec version in PC-CARD form for laptops.
There are even drivers for Windows 2000.