This seems like very stupid tactics, if Adobe is doing this. I am not so sure that it is Adobe. German law allows (for lack of a better term) IP bounty hunters, who can have no relation to the owner of the trademark. (Or at least that is what I have heard) So this may be independant lawyers out to make money. I personally am emailing Adobe about this.
btw, is that the reason it is limited to x86 only? If you want to port to various alpha platforms (True64, LINUX, etc), try www.testdrive.compaq.com as they have free access to alphas. (if possible, please) As I only have alphas connected to the internet for security and cost reasons.
Feel free to mod this down if you want to moderators, but netrek is a really good game, and paradise2000, tap (aka xyzzy) is the best client I have found. Check it out www.netrek.org
It was called FX!86. It worked wonderfully well. I did not encounter anything that worked on x86 NT that didn't work on alpha NT. (I did encounter things that didn't work, but they were all NT related) Very very good emulator. However, Alpha NT while being the third most stable OS I encountered, (1 dos 2 linux) was rather well expensive to get to do anything. The box that was just a workstation now is a workstation/email server/ftp server/etc.., with multiple users connecting via ssh and viewing X apps remotely. If I were absolutely required by some reason to use NT, there would be no way I would use x86 NT (crashed about onece a week) as opposed to Alpha NT (which ran for about 6 months between crashes, barring the Power company shutting down power for a long time.)
The lack of support from anyone aside from DEC was what killed Alpha NT, and the price. Oh, yah and Linux's much greater functionality/cost ratio.
This, the 10 Tflop, 8-10 (majority) of the top 15 of the tops500 list, the cray T3Es (and some other cray stuff)?
Lets see, ALPHAs. 'nuff said.
Alphas aren't anywhere near dead, as many people have said they are, neither is cray.
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Fun stuff. I got one of the White LCD flashlites and (applies to other LCD stuff, too) my mom left it on overnight, under stuff so it wasn't discovered until later that morning, 18 hrs or so, and there wasn't very much difference at all (with a second one that wasn't on)
I have made some White LCD-5.99 at radio shack. plus some surplus wires, and electrical tape. Use some watch batteries and you have one less than 3 cm long by 1 cm around. (If you do, don't look right at it) the box recommends 4v but 4.5v (3 AA, AAA, etc) work just fine.
Lots of old computers did this, for example the xl300 (300MHz dec alpha c1994) has a large heat sink on the processor (2 inches tall or so) a 4inch or so power fan (very low rpm) and a 6-7 inch case fan (pretty low rpm). It was in perfect condition and made very very little noise. (Just for a test I disconected the case fan, and it ran alright, no problems at all. However it started getting hot and the small noise is not that much of a problem at all. However, the generic alpha next to me has several high rpm, small fans, and is really loud, turn that off and the office gets quiet even with the other alpha off, plus it is sitting on a desk.
Ogg is an extensible general format intended to replace MPEG. Vorbis is the only codec out, but people are working on a loss-less compression audio codec and a video codec.
Something like fiasco could be paired with vorbis in an ogg wrapper for a really low-bitrate movie player. Fiasco is much smaller than jpeg, can be made as movies and lacks much of the artifacts that jpeg has, the de-compression is really quick and pretty good (it still could use a lot of work). The huge downside is that it took about 6 hours on a 533MHz alpha (think 1GHz+ athlon or p3 as this has lots of fp) for a 30 second clip.
search on freshmeat if you want to find it, i am too lazy to find the url right now, as I am supposed to give a presentation at the local lug in about right now
I believe that the program is a 'federal mandate', because everywhere I know about it is the same.
Anyway, My own experence with schools, I am one of those students in the top 2%. I get rather bad grades (C and Ds). The reason is not intellegence, nor ability, or knowledge, it is simply that I go to school to learn, and I am not doing that. I left the IB program, because It was not fast enough. (btw, I took algebra 1 in 6th grade and was into precalc (which i should have been above, but it was ok, as the class did cover calculus the second half, and as a sophmore I scored a 5 on the AP calc AB test, after my calculator broke in the middle of the exam.) IB would not let me take college classes without being forced to do what others do: take a class over again for a semester when the college class is done with. I took Calculus 3 at a state university next to where I changed high schools to, and am going to graduate in my third year of full time high school. The reason I am not getting good grades and am rather uncaring is that none of my high school classes are really helping me. US History (2 years required by the district) is a waste, because I took the AP test and got a 4 (however, it is not entirely down the drain, as the history teacher and I share some interests in the same part of history). Chemistry, is another waste of time. Only in the last 4th of the class did we get into anything I had not done before, and now the teacher (who messes up things right and left (multiple people agree, anyone know that only elements up to Fe can be made with Fusion? And even after she was corrected she said the same thing.) When told that her class was slow, and lacked depth, she proceded on an hour and a half rant about how 'some of us are genusis' and how the class is considered so shallow and etc. How much self-control it took not to go through a laundry list of why it was so slow, and not pull out papers from my Freshman science course and show them to her and how much more difficult they were. English is not a complete waste of time, as it does have some interesting stories with supposed philosophical meaning. However, I read many of them before on my own time.
Enough with the rant, My point is that many people don't do well in school, because the schools are not doing what they are supposed to: TEACH STUDENTS NEW THINGS! If you are in a higher program like IB, everything is very prescriptive, and unflexible. If you aren't then it is a near waste of time.
As for suicide, well, a student who was apparently VERY bright was poked prodded (or whatever you wish to call it) and commited suicide at the IB program I left because he thought he might find people who were as inteligent as he was, and escape that, he was wrong and committed suicide.
Ever wonder why the people with the highest suicide rate are also the most intelligent?
Additionally, note that cray uses clusters of alphas for it's most powerful systems. (reading the top500, alphas amount to a LARGE (50% I believe) percent of the to 15 supercomputers, and that 10 Teraflop computer is being built with alphas
Processor for processor, an alpha will beat the pants off a SPARC. (Heck a 32-processor Alpha GS320 beats a 64-processor Sun SPARC in benchmarks Enterprise 10K?)
The ultrasparc 3 however has have support for 1000 way SMP!
That is the only advantage SPARCS have over alphas, that I know of, and if you are buying that kind of system, you had better do more research than the little I have done!
1. If their arguement that code!=speach is accepted as true, Doesn't that include their source code? In other words, if we don't have speach protection, neither do they.
2. Couldn't thier DVD players (software/hardware) be considered as circumvention devices, because if there are pirated DVDs (which they seem to insist there are) that are played on? Hell, If I could, I would do it (copy DVD a bit-by-bit from a friend, play under a windows software DVD player.) just so that it could be used as an arguemt for 2600.
3. If money is speach (as the supreme court has ruled in cases past) wouldn't being forced to pay for the software DVD players be akin to what you say under duress, as you HAVE to get a software DVD player with any DVD-ROM drive for a computer unless you get it used or are a large OEM (correct me if I am wrong)
For commodity machines:
Most run on 33MHz 32-bit PCI. This provides a bandwidth of 133MB per second (32/8 (for bytes) * 33 million)
This is fine for now. However, servers need faster cards, when one scsi card would overwhelm the PCI bus, in a 32-bit machine. There is however a system that is 64-bit, and is twice the MHz,(64/8 * 66MHz = 532MB/sec) and completely backwards compatible. However, aside from 'server' boards, it is seldom seen on x86 machines.
For server machines (say alphaserver es, gs, etc series):
They have multiple PCI busses. Need a gigaByte of bus, have two busses, etc.
In the future we will need an expansion (either 128-bit or 133MHz) but unless you need a SUPER server, you are going to be fine.
As for optical busses, give me a break. Electricity travels as fast on a wire as in an optical cable. The only reason for optical is the resistance of the copper makes signals degrade. (Ever wonder why fibre channel has a 20 or 40m (i forget which) limit on copper and a 15000m limit on optical fiber?)
Do the slashdot readers/submitters ever read posts? Maybe they might gain some insight into what the heck is going on, instead of the sensationalist stuff put on the front page.
The whole stop-spam with laws is not right. First of all, I have been on the internet since about 1989, but I have not gotten very mich spam at all. There is a reason, I don't post my email everywhere, And if I must give it out, I make sure that I double and triple look at the boxes to make sure they aren't checked. Second of all, I have filters.
It isn't a point of everyone gets it, it is a point of those who are lazy and lax in their policy get spam. Don't burden me, or feed the lawyers, with your stupid attepts to shoot yourself in the foot where privacy, and anonymity are concerned.
Personally, I would prefer that everyone on the net send a 10MB file to a spammer with REPLY several million times in it at the spammer, than ever have gotten lawyers involved. Even directed at someone incrorrectly. (including me)
I will defend to the death a spammer's right to spam me, but I have the right to spam spammers back, and delete their spam.;) (with aplogies)
I was just wondering if this was due to the esentially unlimited access crackers got by writing macro viruses via 'clippy'. Full system access, visual basic scripting, etc. Maybe this is a response to some of the nastier 'virii'. (The popular ones like Melissa, are nothing compared to what some of these do.)
Reading the html pages on the patents (No wonder it is so hard for individuals to patent anything, just when I had a great idea.) I found that they have a very very weak link. However, your gameboys, TI/hp calcs, cell phones are safe as it also says that they have a display that covers most of the device and have a set of switches intermixed (eg a touch screen) with the display.
However, with the number of people making them couldn't it be argued that this was simply a progression and that a novice would have thought of it.
I am really concerned. The MPAA's members are really getting scary. Warner Brothers bought the rights to merchandising and something else besides the movie.WSJ story on Zdnet
Anyway, Warner Brothers is now sending out cease and desist to children around the world. They are also trademarking hundreds of words that appear in the books.
Again we have a huge company going after websites around the world, and at least in the 2600 case they had a very, very small valid reason, here they have none. This is one of the reasons why copyright should not be as long as it is, and why corperations should not be able to basically buy out congress. Kind of makes Disney pale in comparision of their nasty deeds dosen't it.
I have glasses, and it varied, but as my eyes ajusted/changed, I was anywhere between 20/10 and 20/30 (at least with eye tests). I personally had no problems with it. (However, I might have scored higher than what I really had, becuase I can read things based upon the pattern of dark/light the letter creates when it is blurry at long distances, and without my glasses.)
Sounds like a good question, however, and reasearch will have to be done, but I think, that if the change is gradual, the brain will do perfectly well.
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I recently (past month or two) heard on NPR (forgetting why) that the MPAA/Media were planning to file an appeal to something ON THE BASIS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT's freedoms.
I agree with their position, but I am concerned with the "Rights are only for businesses" attitude that companies are taking.
This has been taken before in the last century, and only World War 2 prevented it. Read a book such as Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.
I do not see a world war on the horizon (even with Bush's policies), and I can't think of anything that comes close to that for distraction value (except terrorism or some other thing, that looking at policies has me thinking more that the "terrorism threat" is a load of BS).
I do predict a "war", "revolt", "revolution", whatever you want to call it, in the United States. I mean, the US government is stepping on too many people's toes-Hackers, Crackers, Gun-owners, Privacy advocates, Freedom advocates, and others. If they do not stop, I believe that there may be a revolution. I hope that the government gets their heads out of the corperations rears before this happens, and prevents this by reforming.
If you were required to pay, you may send your $3 to the EFF (www.eff.org has instructions for donations)
A friend of mine (a developer) already has one- the agenda www.agendacomputing.com
If that isn't right, search for it on google.
anyway, they are 70 MHz Mips processors with 8MB ram, 16 MB flash rom running a 2.4 version of the linux kernel, embedded qt (I think) or X
Pretty cool
I have been to 2 high schools, and college
In one, the sysadmins were fairly knowlegeable, but knew that there were better compter people with the students. They acceped that and had student tech aides. The students fixed hardware did maintnence, reinstalled windows, reinstalled windows and other things. I gained a lot of experence with wiring networks, and oh how many problems windows has. When we had someone cracking windows boxes and doing nasty things, they had one of the tech aides hunt down who it was.
The other high school I go to, has an admin who is rather not stupid, but not wise either. He is knowegeable, but there are so many security loopholes in his system, it isn't even funny. He locks out telnet (pissing me off), but not doing anything about viruses, and other harmfull things. (this changed a few days ago, but I saw students ignore "there is a virus" type warnings, by killing the window.) And when I asked him about installing something so I could download a program I am working on, he was rather snobbish. Are you working on it in a class, no, but I am when I don't have college classes, then he proceded with a what educational value does it have line of questioning. My thoughts were "And this is a programming teacher..." This is after offering to help him maintain the schools computers (many x 486,some x P1 4 or so P2s).
I likely sound like an annoyed person, but the refusal to accept that someone doesn't know everything, and ask for help is asking for trouble. Anyway thanks for reading my probably wasteful post, on to assembly...
I right now am sshed into another computer and typing this, "on" another computer. What is the difference between M$'s.NET and that or an nfs shared file system (with some checking to see if you can use the program)?
This sounds like M$ tring yet again to copy what *nix (linux, bsd, solaris, aix, hp-ux,etc) can ALREADY do.
Even assuming that IA-64 has code that is as optimized as the Alpha (look at compaq's ccc for optimization) A Single Alpha will beat almost 3 Itaniums. The Alpha is also going to have a new version up to 1.2 GHz initially, with better performance, and has been tried and tested at 64-bit stuff. Anyone want to comment on that?
Note: the Itanium and Alpha do 64-bit, while the P4 does 32-bit, so they are more precise and are faster than any P4 yet on the market. The IA-64 is not on the market, the Alpha is. Compare the price- 2-3K for a good Alpha vs $4k per processor for IA-64.
RANT
Anyone seen a Mac zealot stopped with "A G4 is a toy, the type of Computers I use will be twice as fast", and then procede to outline what an Alpha is does and why it beats a G4?
Even worse than x86 (Intel/AMD) zelots are Mac zealots. END RANT
And no, this is not a troll, or at least wasn't intended to be.
I have seen quotes of 667 MHz 21264 (current) Alphas with good hardware (Matrox cards, and other good things) for under $3k for the system (with 512 MB RAM)
Alpha 21264
Instructions per cycle-16 (from compaq whitepapers)
Speed-currently up to 833MHz
MIPS-13328
Itanium
Instructions per cycle-6 (from article)
Speed-up to 800MHz (ditto above, when RELEASED)
MIPS-4800
Pentium 4
Instrucions per cycle-3
Speed-1600 (or 1500MHz, whichever)
MIPS-4800
They will be 64-bit ops, yes, but the number is the same as the P4. Compared to Alphas, the Itanium is a stick in the mud. The lowest 21264 (466 MHz) does almost twice the instructions per cycle as the Itanium.
I like Alphas, and am typing on one. They are much faster, but like Itaniums, lack lots of compiler optimizations (eg not taking advantage of the 160 64-bit registers on the chip) aside from ccc (which DEC developed, and was bought out by compaq, and is available for tru64/linux for free)
At www.testdrive.compaq.com (w/ or w/o www.?) they have an IA-64 up, btw.
I am typing this on either a 533 or a 300 MHz ($450) alpha, and they are not too hard to find used. I got one from a dealer in OK www.oarscomputer.com and they are regularly sold on ebay.
However the price on Alphas is not *all* that high given what they do, compared with other similar procs. They are the fastest single processor in the world. (Not flamebait, just the results of every test I have seen) A 21264 is a 16-instruction per clock cycle core (contrast with say even the G4 - 4 or 8, or P4 - 3) 2, 4, or 8 MB L2 (or L3? I forget) DDR Cache. They are significantly faster for anything involving FP than anything else. Plus they are 64-bit processors with 160 (80 int, 80 fp) registers.
In case you are wondering why athlons did so well, it is because they use the Alpha's motherboard technology, and things like dual north bridge connections, 64-bit pci (even the one from 1995 (6?) has two. They can use standard "PC" hardware. They usually have high performace SCSI integrated into the Motherboard. If you are into a SMP based system, they work wonderfly well as they have much more processor to processor bandwidth, and something like the GS320 (32-proc) beats 64-proc SPARC systems, IBM systems, and SGI systems.
As for the DEC compilers for Tru64, I run them. They are available for download from compaq's website for Linux, and most things for tru64 can be run under Linux via another download. And there are people working on Alpha-GCC for optimization, but because of GCC's x86 heritage, it is very difficult to optimise for alpha, not that they aren't having speed increases.
btw, I am hoping that the 364 (current-1.2GHz+ will drive the cost of 264s down.) and good job slackware.
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This seems like very stupid tactics, if Adobe is doing this. I am not so sure that it is Adobe. German law allows (for lack of a better term) IP bounty hunters, who can have no relation to the owner of the trademark. (Or at least that is what I have heard) So this may be independant lawyers out to make money. I personally am emailing Adobe about this.
Feel free to mod this down if you want to moderators, but netrek is a really good game, and paradise2000, tap (aka xyzzy) is the best client I have found. Check it out www.netrek.org
The lack of support from anyone aside from DEC was what killed Alpha NT, and the price. Oh, yah and Linux's much greater functionality/cost ratio.
Lets see, ALPHAs. 'nuff said.
Alphas aren't anywhere near dead, as many people have said they are, neither is cray.
I have made some White LCD-5.99 at radio shack. plus some surplus wires, and electrical tape. Use some watch batteries and you have one less than 3 cm long by 1 cm around. (If you do, don't look right at it) the box recommends 4v but 4.5v (3 AA, AAA, etc) work just fine.
Lots of old computers did this, for example the xl300 (300MHz dec alpha c1994) has a large heat sink on the processor (2 inches tall or so) a 4inch or so power fan (very low rpm) and a 6-7 inch case fan (pretty low rpm). It was in perfect condition and made very very little noise. (Just for a test I disconected the case fan, and it ran alright, no problems at all. However it started getting hot and the small noise is not that much of a problem at all. However, the generic alpha next to me has several high rpm, small fans, and is really loud, turn that off and the office gets quiet even with the other alpha off, plus it is sitting on a desk.
Something like fiasco could be paired with vorbis in an ogg wrapper for a really low-bitrate movie player. Fiasco is much smaller than jpeg, can be made as movies and lacks much of the artifacts that jpeg has, the de-compression is really quick and pretty good (it still could use a lot of work). The huge downside is that it took about 6 hours on a 533MHz alpha (think 1GHz+ athlon or p3 as this has lots of fp) for a 30 second clip.
search on freshmeat if you want to find it, i am too lazy to find the url right now, as I am supposed to give a presentation at the local lug in about right now
Anyway, My own experence with schools, I am one of those students in the top 2%. I get rather bad grades (C and Ds). The reason is not intellegence, nor ability, or knowledge, it is simply that I go to school to learn, and I am not doing that. I left the IB program, because It was not fast enough. (btw, I took algebra 1 in 6th grade and was into precalc (which i should have been above, but it was ok, as the class did cover calculus the second half, and as a sophmore I scored a 5 on the AP calc AB test, after my calculator broke in the middle of the exam.) IB would not let me take college classes without being forced to do what others do: take a class over again for a semester when the college class is done with. I took Calculus 3 at a state university next to where I changed high schools to, and am going to graduate in my third year of full time high school. The reason I am not getting good grades and am rather uncaring is that none of my high school classes are really helping me. US History (2 years required by the district) is a waste, because I took the AP test and got a 4 (however, it is not entirely down the drain, as the history teacher and I share some interests in the same part of history). Chemistry, is another waste of time. Only in the last 4th of the class did we get into anything I had not done before, and now the teacher (who messes up things right and left (multiple people agree, anyone know that only elements up to Fe can be made with Fusion? And even after she was corrected she said the same thing.) When told that her class was slow, and lacked depth, she proceded on an hour and a half rant about how 'some of us are genusis' and how the class is considered so shallow and etc. How much self-control it took not to go through a laundry list of why it was so slow, and not pull out papers from my Freshman science course and show them to her and how much more difficult they were. English is not a complete waste of time, as it does have some interesting stories with supposed philosophical meaning. However, I read many of them before on my own time.
Enough with the rant, My point is that many people don't do well in school, because the schools are not doing what they are supposed to: TEACH STUDENTS NEW THINGS! If you are in a higher program like IB, everything is very prescriptive, and unflexible. If you aren't then it is a near waste of time.
As for suicide, well, a student who was apparently VERY bright was poked prodded (or whatever you wish to call it) and commited suicide at the IB program I left because he thought he might find people who were as inteligent as he was, and escape that, he was wrong and committed suicide.
Ever wonder why the people with the highest suicide rate are also the most intelligent?
Additionally, note that cray uses clusters of alphas for it's most powerful systems. (reading the top500, alphas amount to a LARGE (50% I believe) percent of the to 15 supercomputers, and that 10 Teraflop computer is being built with alphas
Processor for processor, an alpha will beat the pants off a SPARC. (Heck a 32-processor Alpha GS320 beats a 64-processor Sun SPARC in benchmarks Enterprise 10K?)
The ultrasparc 3 however has have support for 1000 way SMP!
That is the only advantage SPARCS have over alphas, that I know of, and if you are buying that kind of system, you had better do more research than the little I have done!
1. If their arguement that code!=speach is accepted as true, Doesn't that include their source code? In other words, if we don't have speach protection, neither do they.
2. Couldn't thier DVD players (software/hardware) be considered as circumvention devices, because if there are pirated DVDs (which they seem to insist there are) that are played on? Hell, If I could, I would do it (copy DVD a bit-by-bit from a friend, play under a windows software DVD player.) just so that it could be used as an arguemt for 2600.
3. If money is speach (as the supreme court has ruled in cases past) wouldn't being forced to pay for the software DVD players be akin to what you say under duress, as you HAVE to get a software DVD player with any DVD-ROM drive for a computer unless you get it used or are a large OEM (correct me if I am wrong)
4. Why the are people so stupid?
This is fine for now. However, servers need faster cards, when one scsi card would overwhelm the PCI bus, in a 32-bit machine. There is however a system that is 64-bit, and is twice the MHz,(64/8 * 66MHz = 532MB/sec) and completely backwards compatible. However, aside from 'server' boards, it is seldom seen on x86 machines.
For server machines (say alphaserver es, gs, etc series):
They have multiple PCI busses. Need a gigaByte of bus, have two busses, etc.
In the future we will need an expansion (either 128-bit or 133MHz) but unless you need a SUPER server, you are going to be fine.
As for optical busses, give me a break. Electricity travels as fast on a wire as in an optical cable. The only reason for optical is the resistance of the copper makes signals degrade. (Ever wonder why fibre channel has a 20 or 40m (i forget which) limit on copper and a 15000m limit on optical fiber?)
Do the slashdot readers/submitters ever read posts? Maybe they might gain some insight into what the heck is going on, instead of the sensationalist stuff put on the front page.
It isn't a point of everyone gets it, it is a point of those who are lazy and lax in their policy get spam. Don't burden me, or feed the lawyers, with your stupid attepts to shoot yourself in the foot where privacy, and anonymity are concerned.
Personally, I would prefer that everyone on the net send a 10MB file to a spammer with REPLY several million times in it at the spammer, than ever have gotten lawyers involved. Even directed at someone incrorrectly. (including me)
I will defend to the death a spammer's right to spam me, but I have the right to spam spammers back, and delete their spam. ;) (with aplogies)
I was just wondering if this was due to the esentially unlimited access crackers got by writing macro viruses via 'clippy'. Full system access, visual basic scripting, etc. Maybe this is a response to some of the nastier 'virii'. (The popular ones like Melissa, are nothing compared to what some of these do.)
Or perhaps M$ just realized everyone hates it...
However, with the number of people making them couldn't it be argued that this was simply a progression and that a novice would have thought of it.
Anyway, Warner Brothers is now sending out cease and desist to children around the world. They are also trademarking hundreds of words that appear in the books.
Again we have a huge company going after websites around the world, and at least in the 2600 case they had a very, very small valid reason, here they have none. This is one of the reasons why copyright should not be as long as it is, and why corperations should not be able to basically buy out congress. Kind of makes Disney pale in comparision of their nasty deeds dosen't it.
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Sounds like a good question, however, and reasearch will have to be done, but I think, that if the change is gradual, the brain will do perfectly well.
I recently (past month or two) heard on NPR (forgetting why) that the MPAA/Media were planning to file an appeal to something ON THE BASIS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT's freedoms.
I agree with their position, but I am concerned with the "Rights are only for businesses" attitude that companies are taking.
This has been taken before in the last century, and only World War 2 prevented it. Read a book such as Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.
I do not see a world war on the horizon (even with Bush's policies), and I can't think of anything that comes close to that for distraction value (except terrorism or some other thing, that looking at policies has me thinking more that the "terrorism threat" is a load of BS).
I do predict a "war", "revolt", "revolution", whatever you want to call it, in the United States. I mean, the US government is stepping on too many people's toes-Hackers, Crackers, Gun-owners, Privacy advocates, Freedom advocates, and others. If they do not stop, I believe that there may be a revolution. I hope that the government gets their heads out of the corperations rears before this happens, and prevents this by reforming.
If you were required to pay, you may send your $3 to the EFF (www.eff.org has instructions for donations)
anyway, they are 70 MHz Mips processors with 8MB ram, 16 MB flash rom running a 2.4 version of the linux kernel, embedded qt (I think) or X
Pretty cool
In one, the sysadmins were fairly knowlegeable, but knew that there were better compter people with the students. They acceped that and had student tech aides. The students fixed hardware did maintnence, reinstalled windows, reinstalled windows and other things. I gained a lot of experence with wiring networks, and oh how many problems windows has. When we had someone cracking windows boxes and doing nasty things, they had one of the tech aides hunt down who it was.
The other high school I go to, has an admin who is rather not stupid, but not wise either. He is knowegeable, but there are so many security loopholes in his system, it isn't even funny. He locks out telnet (pissing me off), but not doing anything about viruses, and other harmfull things. (this changed a few days ago, but I saw students ignore "there is a virus" type warnings, by killing the window.) And when I asked him about installing something so I could download a program I am working on, he was rather snobbish. Are you working on it in a class, no, but I am when I don't have college classes, then he proceded with a what educational value does it have line of questioning. My thoughts were "And this is a programming teacher..." This is after offering to help him maintain the schools computers (many x 486,some x P1 4 or so P2s).
I likely sound like an annoyed person, but the refusal to accept that someone doesn't know everything, and ask for help is asking for trouble. Anyway thanks for reading my probably wasteful post, on to assembly...
This sounds like M$ tring yet again to copy what *nix (linux, bsd, solaris, aix, hp-ux,etc) can ALREADY do.
If not, please explain it to me.
IA-64-4800 MIPS (@ 800 MHz)
21264-13328 MIPS (@ 833 MHz)
21264-7456 MIPS (@466 MHz)
Even assuming that IA-64 has code that is as optimized as the Alpha (look at compaq's ccc for optimization) A Single Alpha will beat almost 3 Itaniums. The Alpha is also going to have a new version up to 1.2 GHz initially, with better performance, and has been tried and tested at 64-bit stuff. Anyone want to comment on that?
Note: the Itanium and Alpha do 64-bit, while the P4 does 32-bit, so they are more precise and are faster than any P4 yet on the market. The IA-64 is not on the market, the Alpha is. Compare the price- 2-3K for a good Alpha vs $4k per processor for IA-64.
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Anyone seen a Mac zealot stopped with "A G4 is a toy, the type of Computers I use will be twice as fast", and then procede to outline what an Alpha is does and why it beats a G4?
Even worse than x86 (Intel/AMD) zelots are Mac zealots.
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And no, this is not a troll, or at least wasn't intended to be.
I have seen quotes of 667 MHz 21264 (current) Alphas with good hardware (Matrox cards, and other good things) for under $3k for the system (with 512 MB RAM)
Alpha 21264
Instructions per cycle-16 (from compaq whitepapers)
Speed-currently up to 833MHz
MIPS-13328
Itanium
Instructions per cycle-6 (from article)
Speed-up to 800MHz (ditto above, when RELEASED)
MIPS-4800
Pentium 4
Instrucions per cycle-3
Speed-1600 (or 1500MHz, whichever)
MIPS-4800
They will be 64-bit ops, yes, but the number is the same as the P4. Compared to Alphas, the Itanium is a stick in the mud. The lowest 21264 (466 MHz) does almost twice the instructions per cycle as the Itanium.
I like Alphas, and am typing on one. They are much faster, but like Itaniums, lack lots of compiler optimizations (eg not taking advantage of the 160 64-bit registers on the chip) aside from ccc (which DEC developed, and was bought out by compaq, and is available for tru64/linux for free)
At www.testdrive.compaq.com (w/ or w/o www.?) they have an IA-64 up, btw.
depends on which I am using, as I am sshed into one from the other, not that I don't know what the processor is.
However the price on Alphas is not *all* that high given what they do, compared with other similar procs. They are the fastest single processor in the world. (Not flamebait, just the results of every test I have seen) A 21264 is a 16-instruction per clock cycle core (contrast with say even the G4 - 4 or 8, or P4 - 3) 2, 4, or 8 MB L2 (or L3? I forget) DDR Cache. They are significantly faster for anything involving FP than anything else. Plus they are 64-bit processors with 160 (80 int, 80 fp) registers.
In case you are wondering why athlons did so well, it is because they use the Alpha's motherboard technology, and things like dual north bridge connections, 64-bit pci (even the one from 1995 (6?) has two. They can use standard "PC" hardware. They usually have high performace SCSI integrated into the Motherboard. If you are into a SMP based system, they work wonderfly well as they have much more processor to processor bandwidth, and something like the GS320 (32-proc) beats 64-proc SPARC systems, IBM systems, and SGI systems.
As for the DEC compilers for Tru64, I run them. They are available for download from compaq's website for Linux, and most things for tru64 can be run under Linux via another download. And there are people working on Alpha-GCC for optimization, but because of GCC's x86 heritage, it is very difficult to optimise for alpha, not that they aren't having speed increases.
btw, I am hoping that the 364 (current-1.2GHz+ will drive the cost of 264s down.) and good job slackware.