There is an excellent article in this month's Performance Computing (from the Unix Review) about the roadmap IBM has leading up to the Power4..
Plus there's a super whizzy electron scan cross section of a chip built using IBMs new SOI chip process which basically builds the transistors with a small substrate of Silicone Dioxide on top of an insulator which sits on top of the silicon wafer. Apparently, the bigger the piece of silicon you use for the transistors, the more capacitance it has, and the more energy it takes to charge/discharge the transistor, so these new chips take less power and can be packed closer... Hope I'm getting some of these technical details right...
Anyway, basically IBM is using it's way-better-than-everyone-else chip manufacturing technology to kick some major butt. This thing looks sweet. One thing not mentioned here (at least I didn't see it) is that because they're gonna bump up to 1 GHz, they had to lengthen the pipeline -> each instruction may take more clock cycles now. What they were doing to compensate was to make the chip able to run instructions out-of-order, beefing up the code branching analysis, and adding an L3 cache (off the die) to improve memory performance.
Where do you get the $12000 price tag? What I saw on their web site was that it started at around $1400... That's a little different.
Also, although Oracle runs on lots of hardware, it is not device independent. Otherwise, why would they just be getting it out for Linux? They have done their best to isolate the platform-specific code, but it still has to be ported.
I haven't played with 8i myself, but I had read that it had java web-based config utilities... Is this not true of 8i for Linux?
Quit buying cheap, crappy monitors. My Dell 17" at work is (right now) running at 1280x1024... for a good 19" try the Hitachi Superscan 750, it can easily do 1600x1200
Here's a discussion of the Greek Mythology of Janus. Basically he's the god of beginnings, doorways, etc.. Interestingly, he's represented with two faces.... imagine that, M$ being two-faced...
I think maybe Jon is over dramatizing the effect and impact of Wired because he was there and it felt like (or they liked to believe it was) the center of the web-savvy world. In reality, however, most techno geeks I knew couldn't stand to try to read it.
Wired always had a low signal-to-noise ratio. It was and is hard to tell where the advertising starts and the content begins. I figured it was a good outlet for some acid-popping graphic designers (nothing wrong with that) and a few hackers, but not much more. It looked good sitting on the table in the waiting room of the internet start-ups saying "look how cool we are! We're different from the rest of the world!", but really, who really looked to Wired for info on current technology or culture? There were and are better outlets, more focused and readable, for all of the things Wired wanted to do.
It was great for it's pictures of the new techie toys and freakily manipulated pictures of the founders of the web and the companies that made it great, but is that really a reason to wax poetic? I think not...
In his speech, Alan Baratz (of Sun) implies they're considering moving Mozilla to something like the Sun Community Process... To see what the Java community thinks of the SCP, check out this article on Javalobby.com.
The Sun Community Process has been very little use to anyone, even Sun, because Sun is mainly ignoring the Community. I certainly hope AOL isn't dumb enough to do this to Mozilla. As one poster on the Javalobby article points out, Mozilla is actually not doing that badly, outside of the press...
Apache for NT IS stable. It may not be as stable as Apache for Linux or Solaris, but how would you know if it was, on NT? As it is, it's at least as stable as IIS on NT.
From the article, I'm betting the sequence of events went like this:
1) Burlington is a customer of Dell 2) Burlington, being a forward looking company, decides to switch to Linux for it's operations 3) Burlington calls Dell, says "we need 1250 Linux workstations... Can you do it, or should we call Compaq?" 4) Dell buys equity in RH to cement their position (probably cost less than they'll make on the Burlington deal alone)
Therefore, I say Congradulations Burlington, you rock!
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There is an excellent article in this month's Performance Computing (from the Unix Review) about the roadmap IBM has leading up to the Power4..
Plus there's a super whizzy electron scan cross section of a chip built using IBMs new SOI chip process which basically builds the transistors with a small substrate of Silicone Dioxide on top of an insulator which sits on top of the silicon wafer. Apparently, the bigger the piece of silicon you use for the transistors, the more capacitance it has, and the more energy it takes to charge/discharge the transistor, so these new chips take less power and can be packed closer... Hope I'm getting some of these technical details right...
Anyway, basically IBM is using it's way-better-than-everyone-else chip manufacturing technology to kick some major butt. This thing looks sweet. One thing not mentioned here (at least I didn't see it) is that because they're gonna bump up to 1 GHz, they had to lengthen the pipeline -> each instruction may take more clock cycles now. What they were doing to compensate was to make the chip able to run instructions out-of-order, beefing up the code branching analysis, and adding an L3 cache (off the die) to improve memory performance.
Huh?
Where do you get the $12000 price tag? What I saw on their web site was that it started at around $1400... That's a little different.
Also, although Oracle runs on lots of hardware, it is not device independent. Otherwise, why would they just be getting it out for Linux? They have done their best to isolate the platform-specific code, but it still has to be ported.
I haven't played with 8i myself, but I had read that it had java web-based config utilities... Is this not true of 8i for Linux?
Quit buying cheap, crappy monitors. My Dell 17" at work is (right now) running at 1280x1024... for a good 19" try the Hitachi Superscan 750, it can easily do 1600x1200
Here's a discussion of the Greek Mythology of Janus. Basically he's the god of beginnings, doorways, etc.. Interestingly, he's represented with two faces.... imagine that, M$ being two-faced...
I think maybe Jon is over dramatizing the effect and impact of Wired because he was there and it felt like (or they liked to believe it was) the center of the web-savvy world. In reality, however, most techno geeks I knew couldn't stand to try to read it.
Wired always had a low signal-to-noise ratio. It was and is hard to tell where the advertising starts and the content begins. I figured it was a good outlet for some acid-popping graphic designers (nothing wrong with that) and a few hackers, but not much more. It looked good sitting on the table in the waiting room of the internet start-ups saying "look how cool we are! We're different from the rest of the world!", but really, who really looked to Wired for info on current technology or culture? There were and are better outlets, more focused and readable, for all of the things Wired wanted to do.
It was great for it's pictures of the new techie toys and freakily manipulated pictures of the founders of the web and the companies that made it great, but is that really a reason to wax poetic? I think not...
In his speech, Alan Baratz (of Sun) implies they're considering moving Mozilla to something like the Sun Community Process... To see what the Java community thinks of the SCP, check out this article on Javalobby.com.
The Sun Community Process has been very little use to anyone, even Sun, because Sun is mainly ignoring the Community. I certainly hope AOL isn't dumb enough to do this to Mozilla. As one poster on the Javalobby article points out, Mozilla is actually not doing that badly, outside of the press...
Apache for NT IS stable. It may not be as stable as Apache for Linux or Solaris, but how would you know if it was, on NT? As it is, it's at least as stable as IIS on NT.
The /. acquisition was the biggest one of the day for a while...
Do you think they timed it this way?
From the article, I'm betting the sequence of events went like this:
1) Burlington is a customer of Dell
2) Burlington, being a forward looking company, decides to switch to Linux for it's operations
3) Burlington calls Dell, says "we need 1250 Linux workstations... Can you do it, or should we call Compaq?"
4) Dell buys equity in RH to cement their position (probably cost less than they'll make on the Burlington deal alone)
Therefore, I say Congradulations Burlington, you rock!
but a little slow, like you said...