The blurb says that the tool told him to disable beagled which he did and he was duely impressed when the number of wake ups per second dropped. However the actual watts used went up. Thought the point was to save power?
Sun use sunrays throughout their network. They are stateless terminals with smartcard readers in them. You put your id badge into them and you desktop pops up. This works globally, so if you are normally based in the US and travel to Europe, you just stick your card into a sunray and (after a short pause...) your desktop appears, just as you left it back home. All works perfectly smoothly and mostly hassle free.
Opensolaris can already run linux distributions as a non-global zone. Its called brandz and involved providing the API's of a particular rev of the linux kernel (2.4.21???) aparently (I'm no brandz expert, just gave it a whirl). Tis nifty. You now have linux apps running on top of a solaris kernel unmodified. Looks just like a linux box. Not sure how useful it is though. They claim a 5% performance overhead and obviously hardware drivers are likely to be a bit odd as your not running linux at all but solaris.
Big events like soccer world cups or olympics and the like generally need large on site IT infrastructure for the press and so on. This sort of thing might just hit the spot.
One open-source operating system is plenty, though, so there would be no point to making AIX open-source, IBM's Handy said. "There's room for a proprietary one and an open one. Once one is open, you don't need any more," he said.
Only people running w2k3 AND linux were allowed to respond. Hmmmmmn, so how many MS shops with an evaluation linux server (installed by their clueless MSCE) were included in this "survey"
How do you explain that HP-UX and Solaris 10 scored higher than Windows then? Guess clueless MSCE's are handy around HP-UX/Solaris and not linux...
That just sounds daft. Given the bottle neck harddrives are for cpu's, it doesn't sound like a great shock that when you gotta wait for your data over ethernet you're going to see problems.
ZFS from Sun is 128-bit. According to this guy thats a whole load of data:
"Although we'd all like Moore's Law to continue forever, quantum mechanics imposes some fundamental limits on the computation rate and information capacity of any physical device. In particular, it has been shown that 1 kilogram of matter confined to 1 liter of space can perform at most 1051 operations per second on at most 1031 bits of information [see Seth Lloyd, "Ultimate physical limits to computation." Nature 406, 1047-1054 (2000)]. A fully-populated 128-bit storage pool would contain 2^128 blocks = 2^137 bytes = 2^140 bits; therefore the minimum mass required to hold the bits would be (2^140 bits) / (10^31 bits/kg) = 136 billion kg.
A screen shot in there seems to hint that we'll be able disable the annoying feature where nautilus opens new windows for each directory you select instead of the real estate saving tree view.
Anyone know if 2.10 can have a tree view for directory hierarcies?
You do say that kiddies aren't on the way now, but should you really trust your future salary to what your hear on slashdot? I'm not from the US but I assume you are which raises another point.
Why not get legal and/or accounting advise from someone in your Country or State rather than what folks who may live in Spain say?
I know it may be useful and all but you'll have to ask a pro sooner or later so why not cut out the middle man who may not know anything and just ask someone who really does know?
Slashdot Mirror
Blah blah blah... ...cool mouseover diagram...
blah blah blah
The blurb says that the tool told him to disable beagled which he did and he was duely impressed when the number of wake ups per second dropped. However the actual watts used went up. Thought the point was to save power?
But, CmdrTaco, the summary (no I didn't RTFA) is about journalists?
Sun use sunrays throughout their network. They are stateless terminals with smartcard readers in them. You put your id badge into them and you desktop pops up. This works globally, so if you are normally based in the US and travel to Europe, you just stick your card into a sunray and (after a short pause...) your desktop appears, just as you left it back home. All works perfectly smoothly and mostly hassle free.
http://www.sun.com/sunray/sunray2/faq.xml
5 hours for video and internet and 16 for voice.
Sounds a bit crap.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html
Battery info a bit garbled on my browser though.
Opensolaris can already run linux distributions as a non-global zone. Its called brandz and involved providing the API's of a particular rev of the linux kernel (2.4.21???) aparently (I'm no brandz expert, just gave it a whirl). Tis nifty. You now have linux apps running on top of a solaris kernel unmodified. Looks just like a linux box. Not sure how useful it is though. They claim a 5% performance overhead and obviously hardware drivers are likely to be a bit odd as your not running linux at all but solaris.
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/
Big events like soccer world cups or olympics and the like generally need large on site IT infrastructure for the press and so on. This sort of thing might just hit the spot.
So bugger off *BSD. Very open-minded of him
How do you explain that HP-UX and Solaris 10 scored higher than Windows then? Guess clueless MSCE's are handy around HP-UX/Solaris and not linux...
That argument doesn't hold up.
That just sounds daft. Given the bottle neck harddrives are for cpu's, it doesn't sound like a great shock that when you gotta wait for your data over ethernet you're going to see problems.
Maybe I should RTFA...
Who else read this and only saw "highly explosive" and spent 20 mins looking up stuff that exploded.
Bah to your end of the world disease, I was stuff that blows up.
ZFS from Sun is 128-bit. According to this guy
thats a whole load of data:
"Although we'd all like Moore's Law to continue forever, quantum mechanics imposes some fundamental limits on the computation rate and information capacity of any physical device. In particular, it has been shown that 1 kilogram of matter confined to 1 liter of space can perform at most 1051 operations per second on at most 1031 bits of information [see Seth Lloyd, "Ultimate physical limits to computation." Nature 406, 1047-1054 (2000)]. A fully-populated 128-bit storage pool would contain 2^128 blocks = 2^137 bytes = 2^140 bits; therefore the minimum mass required to hold the bits would be (2^140 bits) / (10^31 bits/kg) = 136 billion kg.
That's a lot of gear."
AE 16:
Show-stopper but only observed by Intel so far. Also, any OS developer who codes like this deserves this one.
Isn't that the point of a rootkit?
Thought you either had a nemesis or you didn't?
Maybe there are degrees of nemesisness?
Has anyone else used nemesisness in a sentence today?
Go me.
I'm not sure how this benefits Sun, but something as awesome as this, I'm willing to assume it's altruism, and I appreciate it.
Thats easy. You used to be a Mac only person (making some guesses here...) but now you are a Solaris user.
How many other people are trying solaris for the first time because of this feature?
Suck in the developers and they may turn into server sales or even just positive PR.
Sounds like more than altruisim to me.
Iraq is shorter. Iran also managable.
Korea just complicated
Does the study take into account relative failure rates?
If your real smart to start with you have further to fall, while if your just dumb, presure won't affect you as your already dumb.
A screen shot in there seems to hint that we'll be able disable the annoying feature where nautilus opens new windows for each directory you select instead of the real estate saving tree view.
Anyone know if 2.10 can have a tree view for directory hierarcies?
What about marriage?
Never mind...
Something tells me new boy samzenpus will be looking for new job.
Hopefully on google and not grugnog...
Think you typo'd there. It should of course be a GNU/.Interview
Go Microsoft?
Microsoft is the good guy?
Hummmm must be a full moon...
You do say that kiddies aren't on the way now, but should you really trust your future salary to what your hear on slashdot? I'm not from the US but I assume you are which raises another point.
Why not get legal and/or accounting advise from someone in your Country or State rather than what folks who may live in Spain say?
I know it may be useful and all but you'll have to ask a pro sooner or later so why not cut out the middle man who may not know anything and just ask someone who really does know?
My 2 cent (euro cent that is).
It said the worst jobs in science. Nothing scientific about this place...