I'll venture that this GPU/CPU integration is really aimed at the low end market to cheaply increase graphics performance for Vista. The integrated graphics chips that exist now are really just 2d chips, and have little or none of the acceleration that Vista wants for all its eye-candy.
There's also been some speculation that GPUs will go multi-core / multi-socket because their architectures are inherently more amenable to that and also because the current crop of ~700M transistor GPUs are friggin expensive to manufacture. So it's entirely possible that with a reasonably high-speed interconnect like HT3 available you'll have a multi-socket motherboard and for the second socket you can plug in a 4 general purpose cores, or maybe 2 general purpose cores plus 32 or 64 graphics cores.
The poster leaves a lot of stuff out - like what's the bandwidth per port? Are they routing analog dial-up lines or gigabit ethernet? What protocols are they routing? Do they need ACLs? How many? Other filtering? Proxying? And if the installation is really that big, just lay out the $jack for a layer-3 or higher switch or router or firewall or whatever.
Not to be a dick, but if the poster has to Ask Slashdot about this sort of configuration, he or she has no business messing with this and should leave the design and configuration to grown ups (unless it's a lab experiment or something).
For all of the technical details given in either article, they might as well propose monitoring the lines with an army of fairies that communicate using magic pixie dust, deployed via unicorns.
It's Election Day, so I get into work early, before lunch even. The phone rings. Shit!
I turn the page on the excuse sheet. "COSMIC SOLAR FLARES" stares out at me. I'd better read up on that. Two minutes later
I'm ready to answer the phone.
"Hello?" I say.
The Voting machines are messed up, We can't vote!!!
"Ah, yes. Well, there's been some cosmic solar activity this morning, it always disrupts electronics..." I say, sweet as a sugar pie.
"Huh? But I my friends could vote in Itasca County"
"Yes, that's entirely possible, cosmic solar activity is very unpredictable in it's effects. Why just a few years ago, we had some votes just dissappear from a guys total during the middle of a recount!"
Offtopic?
Too bad the mods don't understand BOFH excuse calendar humor. But you did leave off the part where voters for the wrong party have their opinions corrected via an ingeneously improvised "patch" to the voting machine involving a cattle prod....
I know nothing of the cell industry, but if Apple wants a limited amount sold and financial analysts think it would not sell well, this phone won't be subsidized by a single carrier. This would be a $500 phone purchased by the user that could be used with any carrier.
That's one reason I think that Apple will be its own (virtual) carrier. Another is that Jobs has shown a strong tendency to want to control the entire end-user experience. Finally, they can just plain make more money that way. People who buy an iPhone are more interested in the phone itself than they are Cingular's roll-over minutes or whatever.
Charlie Wolf, an analyst with Needham & Co., who believes the next big seller for Apple will be a Mac computer preinstalled with Windows operating software.
Favorite quote: "Analysts - they don't know preferred stock from livestock" - Gordon Gekko.
Because if Apple makes it then people will actually be able to figure out how to use the stupid thing. Every non-techie person I know uses their phone for making calls and maybe as an alarm clock. Phone user interfaces are so horrible that even the more technically inclined usually have to work at making them, well, work as designed.
With regards to people worrying about Cingular, Verizon, etc. crippling them - I would bet that Apple set themselves up as their own virtual carrier like Virgin did (leasing airtime from Cingular / T-Mobile if they want global compatibility, or from Sprint and Verizon if they want decent broadband speed - not to turn this into a GSM/CDMA flame-war). This way they can have their iTunes store on the phone as well...
Gee, could the fact that Lockyer is running for Governor against Schwarzenegger and the fact that his polls are in the basement have anything to do with it? Hmmmm....
So sick of x86. Look at all the cool stuff the graphics card makers are coming up with. Intel needs to buy NVidia to get real innovation done. I'm sure they have cool stuff cooking up, though. Let's get engineers going and let's get innovating!
Intel's buying power (Total Current Assets - Total Current Liabilities): around US$ 8.5B
And that's assuming Intel won't have to write down a ton of their current inventory (all their old Netburst crap). They'd have to issue a ton of new stock to pay for the purchase - I don't think their shareholders would go for it.
Nagios is a fairly easy-to-learn, extremely extensible (can you use a scripting language?) monitoring system. It scales reasonably well, distributed stat gathering, can respond to SNMP traps, etc. Not the easiest out of the box (you'll spend a day or two learning to use it and set it up), but there's very little you can't make it do.
It's probably good in many cases - notice that this "article" is practically a re-write of a press release from a company that sells (drum-roll...) software to encrypt the crap on your cell phone! Gee, you think they may just be trolling for business?
Yes, you're exactly right. There's nothing to this story at all....Oh wait. What's this on Bugtraq? Let me paste the headline for you:
Dude, you didn't RTFA. Nobody's denying the WiFi driver hacks exist or that vendors haven't been hideously irresponsible in their development efforts, considering the implications. That's not what TFA is about - it's an Oliver-Stone-on-Crack conspiracy... rant (theory would be entirely too kind a word) suggesting that the presenters at BlackHat were being extorted into not giving more information. Hey, I'm annoyed that they didn't opt for full disclosure too, but just because it doesn't make sense to me doesn't mean that space aliens and Apple's lawyers threatened them with an Airport Express Anal Probe on one hand while offering them orgies with Intel's booth babes on the other to shut them up.
There are MIDI pickups available for regular guitars which will transform what you play into MIDI input for a computer. Maybe someone should make a game like this which can be fun like Guitar Hero, but actually use a real guitar!
Or better yet, just hack one of the Guitar Hero controllers. I'd kick out $30 for an adapter.
Well, since your first problem is that your servers aren't rack-mountable (or, if you can get conversion kits, rack-mount them and forget the rest of this), your next best bet is some good shelving. I've purchased some heavy-duty 4' x 18" stainless steel shelves from Costco for about $75 a set. Each shelf can hold 500 lbs if necessary. Find a way to attach the shelves to the wall (several half-inch-thick zip-ties screwed into the wall studs works well), and use cargo straps (the kind with built-in ratchets to tighten them) to attach the servers to the shelves. Very space-efficient and sturdy.
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... I think this theory really stinks.
Nearly all of the ones that come with the MP3 players are utter crap. These look sweet and sound sweeter. Highly recommended.
The poster leaves a lot of stuff out - like what's the bandwidth per port? Are they routing analog dial-up lines or gigabit ethernet? What protocols are they routing? Do they need ACLs? How many? Other filtering? Proxying? And if the installation is really that big, just lay out the $jack for a layer-3 or higher switch or router or firewall or whatever.
Not to be a dick, but if the poster has to Ask Slashdot about this sort of configuration, he or she has no business messing with this and should leave the design and configuration to grown ups (unless it's a lab experiment or something).
For all of the technical details given in either article, they might as well propose monitoring the lines with an army of fairies that communicate using magic pixie dust, deployed via unicorns.
Too bad the mods don't understand BOFH excuse calendar humor. But you did leave off the part where voters for the wrong party have their opinions corrected via an ingeneously improvised "patch" to the voting machine involving a cattle prod....
Although most of my political fantasies involve lynch mobs...
Because if Apple makes it then people will actually be able to figure out how to use the stupid thing. Every non-techie person I know uses their phone for making calls and maybe as an alarm clock. Phone user interfaces are so horrible that even the more technically inclined usually have to work at making them, well, work as designed.
With regards to people worrying about Cingular, Verizon, etc. crippling them - I would bet that Apple set themselves up as their own virtual carrier like Virgin did (leasing airtime from Cingular / T-Mobile if they want global compatibility, or from Sprint and Verizon if they want decent broadband speed - not to turn this into a GSM/CDMA flame-war). This way they can have their iTunes store on the phone as well...
Gee, could the fact that Lockyer is running for Governor against Schwarzenegger and the fact that his polls are in the basement have anything to do with it? Hmmmm....
NVidia's current market cap: US$ 10.83B
And that's assuming Intel won't have to write down a ton of their current inventory (all their old Netburst crap). They'd have to issue a ton of new stock to pay for the purchase - I don't think their shareholders would go for it.
Nagios is a fairly easy-to-learn, extremely extensible (can you use a scripting language?) monitoring system. It scales reasonably well, distributed stat gathering, can respond to SNMP traps, etc. Not the easiest out of the box (you'll spend a day or two learning to use it and set it up), but there's very little you can't make it do.
It's probably good in many cases - notice that this "article" is practically a re-write of a press release from a company that sells (drum-roll...) software to encrypt the crap on your cell phone! Gee, you think they may just be trolling for business?
I am shocked that Microsoft wouldn't put their end-user's interests first I'll tell you.
Oh... wait... Never mind.
Exactly. Let's see: lots of invective, mix in some conspiracy theories, and season with exactly zero facts. The article is nothing but a troll.
Well, since your first problem is that your servers aren't rack-mountable (or, if you can get conversion kits, rack-mount them and forget the rest of this), your next best bet is some good shelving. I've purchased some heavy-duty 4' x 18" stainless steel shelves from Costco for about $75 a set. Each shelf can hold 500 lbs if necessary. Find a way to attach the shelves to the wall (several half-inch-thick zip-ties screwed into the wall studs works well), and use cargo straps (the kind with built-in ratchets to tighten them) to attach the servers to the shelves. Very space-efficient and sturdy.
Could be worse. You could try to make it find something useful within the domain "myspace.com".