Ug, that was terrible. I've never seen that, though I do remember the "ZELDAAAAAA" one... The one off of zeldaextreme.com made me want to vomit.
I also remember that line at the end "the nintendo entertainment system... your parents help you hook it up". Wow, didn't give kids much credit, did they... I guess this was before the 90's where the kids were showing their parents how to hook up their computers:-)
You're evaluation of Solaris is short-sighted, I'm afraid. Please direct me to the portion of the Linux kernel where I can swap out CPU's, memory and entire portions of the centerplane (that's the back-side bus for you Lintel people) without even going to single-user mode, much less powering down the machine. Also, what were the benchmarks for Linux running full SMP on 100+ CPU's? Oh wait, there weren't. And if it did, you wouldn't have the guys from Cray working on it like sun did for hte 10/12/15k to make the scalability linear.
Come back with those comments when Linux can do massive-scale SMP and dynamic reconfiguration and other 'legacy' features. Until then, STFU and go play on your dual-whatever.
Well, it's not that bad, most of what XP churns out are NetBIOS broadcasts and other non-routable packets. Makes your LAN a bit noisy, but if you've got your own private subnet (a must for broadband), turn off automatic update checking, it stays pretty quiet on the other side of the router.
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Conan and Karateka got me through kindergarten and first grade, man, they were awesome! And let's not forget Montezuma's Revenge and Wizardry. Ah, the apple IIe, the reason I have all my terminal windows green-on-black;-)
I also remember walking to my neighbor's house to play the *Quest games on his IBM PC-XT (?) 286. Werd.
Feeling much much too old for my age, but, given the current crowd...
It does, however, have the unfortunate requirement that you have the source and that you re-compile the code in question. Not a good choice for those who wish to be vendor-clean; meaning that everything on the system came from the vendor, or in the vendor's package format.
For example, Red Hat 9, you're out of luck unless you want to go through the hassle of rebuilding the source RPM. Gentoo, you're in luck, just pop the patch in at the source tree's trunk and emerge. This wouldn't do well in a corporate production environment where the standard must be upheld as part of the service contract.
Apparently they have a quick way to insert the "extra features" that Netscape wants.
This is what was wanted when Mozilla went 1.0. A standard API and plug-in behavior so as to quickly develop third-party functionality (such as Netscape's AIM client, etc.).
I've had it, I'm gone; this is just about the most inane thread on./, ever.
You can have my (relatively) low UID, I'm going to head on over to the mental institution so I can have free Jello and have my brains properly ooze out of my ears like they so want to right now.
The SiS chipset is the least of your worries for this purpose. You either need an MPEG-1/2/4 hardware decoder/encoder, or a > 1Ghz processor, either of which will throw your form factor off in various ways. 233MHz is pathetic for MPEG work (yes the TiVo has a proc about that fast, but it also has embedded encode/decode chips).
The guys at MythTV have discussed this at length; there is just no small, quiet, cheap, Linux friendly way to make a TiVo. Sorry.
Some would argue that the pace of the movie was too quick to begin with. The book took its time, and this is the movie that detracts the most from the trilogy.
The last ent scence was presented to the reader as a recollection after the fact, as well...
I'm in a sticky situation right now where I was hired on to be a Linux admin but now I'm writing product manuals for elderly computer users and developing a proprietary windows solution for our product. The trouble is, I've got a single boss, and the other person is the secretary. That's it, just three people. I'd not think of leaving, but I'm currently waiting on word that I'll be hired at an IT consulting company doing what I really want to do.
So if I get the job, how do I leave since I'm the sole full-time technical person?
BTW: when I joined on there were two developers, but they left a month after I got there and the 'company' took a completely different direction and I got pigeonholed into being a project manager for a windows solution.
I just got through an ordeal of five years for my BS CS and it would have been much easier if I actually had a study/academic ethic worth a damn. None of my 5 computers and laptops in my home network or any number of palms that I've owned have by themselves helped me study/remember stuff; I'd usually forget to enter in the appt in the first place.
Mostly, all the technology hindered me. I played with Linux on my home network instead of studying and I played bubblet and solitaire on my palm instead of listening in class.
Damn I'm glad I buckled down and graduated, I don't think I'd have last much longer...
Hey, moderators, I'm not trolling. Look here or any other slashdot story based on a Eugenia review, you'll see that I'm not alone, nor deserving of -1, Troll!
The reviewer, Eugenia Loli-Queru. She is just about the most vocal and annoying Be fan on the internet. OSNews started as her soapbox for Be, and she cannot help but interject in *every* review that she writes, some mention of why Be is better than Windows/Linux/BSD/sex/God.
I shudder to think what the text of the review is like, now that she's writing about the supposed BeOS 6.
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This is an often made faulty assumption of SMP. If the computer has 8 processors in an SMP configuration, then the shared memory and disk becomes a factor. I'll use an analogy that my old systems professor made:
Imagine you have a puzzle. With one person working on it, it takes 4 hours to finish. Put two people on the job and divide the pieces and it will take about 2 hours for each person, but you've got a new problem. What if a piece that one needs is in the other's pile? He has to get up and walk over to find it. And at the end, they've got to put the finished puzzle together.
This overhead increases dramatically as you add more people. You eventually run into a practical limit on how many people you can add before you're actually *losing* time due to overhead.
Naturally, this is an overly simplistic example and real computers are much better at handling the overhead, but one cannot assume that 8 processors == 1/8 time. It's more like 1/6 in real world experiments
You notice these things when you manage a linux cluster for a few years:-)
With Linux, you're still on the x86 platform and you get to keep any ASM code, processor optimizations, and general hardware tweaks in the codebase. With OS X, you'd have to port over to an entirely different processor and motherboard, a change that is vastly more time consuming.
I'm surprised that no one has really caught on to this and instead blame marketing/politics/"It's what the developers like".
I doubt getting rid of stock is the reason. Word on the grapevine is that Apple is starting to tighten its grip on the retail front of their business.
It's an odd, but perfectly legitimate trend; Apple wants complete control over how their merchandise is sold. They're opening up Apple stores left and right and driving out old, established resellers in those markets. It's pissing a lot of people off, but it's still within their rights to do this, so long as there are no breaches of contract.
*Sigh*, this argument comes up every time there's a new processor out.
There may be no pressing mainstream need for these processor's insane speeds now, but there are two things:
1) Niche markets which will utilize the higher speeds (video editing, photo editing, music production, scientific computing) and 2) the Future. Software will always find a way to use that extra power. We call it "bloat" normally, but then we usually forget about that and accept it as the norm and shun everyone who's running less than 2Ghz.
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I'm getting two, an IBM and Dell, and then I'm putting an autobot sign on my IBM and a decepticon on my Dell. At night, they'll battle for supremecy!
Ug, that was terrible. I've never seen that, though I do remember the "ZELDAAAAAA" one... The one off of zeldaextreme.com made me want to vomit.
:-)
I also remember that line at the end "the nintendo entertainment system... your parents help you hook it up". Wow, didn't give kids much credit, did they... I guess this was before the 90's where the kids were showing their parents how to hook up their computers
You're evaluation of Solaris is short-sighted, I'm afraid. Please direct me to the portion of the Linux kernel where I can swap out CPU's, memory and entire portions of the centerplane (that's the back-side bus for you Lintel people) without even going to single-user mode, much less powering down the machine. Also, what were the benchmarks for Linux running full SMP on 100+ CPU's? Oh wait, there weren't. And if it did, you wouldn't have the guys from Cray working on it like sun did for hte 10/12/15k to make the scalability linear.
Come back with those comments when Linux can do massive-scale SMP and dynamic reconfiguration and other 'legacy' features. Until then, STFU and go play on your dual-whatever.
"Someone hacked my dog from the internet and made it piss all over the bed"
Mmmm, wardriving just got more interesting.
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Well, it's not that bad, most of what XP churns out are NetBIOS broadcasts and other non-routable packets. Makes your LAN a bit noisy, but if you've got your own private subnet (a must for broadband), turn off automatic update checking, it stays pretty quiet on the other side of the router.
Conan and Karateka got me through kindergarten and first grade, man, they were awesome! And let's not forget Montezuma's Revenge and Wizardry. Ah, the apple IIe, the reason I have all my terminal windows green-on-black ;-)
I also remember walking to my neighbor's house to play the *Quest games on his IBM PC-XT (?) 286. Werd.
Feeling much much too old for my age, but, given the current crowd...
Nah, there's bigger fish to fry; like making fun of Reagan's Alzheimer's condition or other presidential and vice-presidential blunders.
It does, however, have the unfortunate requirement that you have the source and that you re-compile the code in question. Not a good choice for those who wish to be vendor-clean; meaning that everything on the system came from the vendor, or in the vendor's package format.
For example, Red Hat 9, you're out of luck unless you want to go through the hassle of rebuilding the source RPM. Gentoo, you're in luck, just pop the patch in at the source tree's trunk and emerge. This wouldn't do well in a corporate production environment where the standard must be upheld as part of the service contract.
Perhaps we could just rupture her eardrums enough to send her tone deaf
This is different how...?
Apparently they have a quick way to insert the "extra features" that Netscape wants.
This is what was wanted when Mozilla went 1.0. A standard API and plug-in behavior so as to quickly develop third-party functionality (such as Netscape's AIM client, etc.).
Yes, I know I'm replying to my own post.
Remember everyone, TiVo, et. al. decode *and* encodes at the same time! You need the muscle or the hardware to do both simultaneously.
I've had it, I'm gone; this is just about the most inane thread on ./, ever.
You can have my (relatively) low UID, I'm going to head on over to the mental institution so I can have free Jello and have my brains properly ooze out of my ears like they so want to right now.
The SiS chipset is the least of your worries for this purpose. You either need an MPEG-1/2/4 hardware decoder/encoder, or a > 1Ghz processor, either of which will throw your form factor off in various ways. 233MHz is pathetic for MPEG work (yes the TiVo has a proc about that fast, but it also has embedded encode/decode chips).
The guys at MythTV have discussed this at length; there is just no small, quiet, cheap, Linux friendly way to make a TiVo. Sorry.
Some would argue that the pace of the movie was too quick to begin with. The book took its time, and this is the movie that detracts the most from the trilogy.
The last ent scence was presented to the reader as a recollection after the fact, as well...
I'm in a sticky situation right now where I was hired on to be a Linux admin but now I'm writing product manuals for elderly computer users and developing a proprietary windows solution for our product. The trouble is, I've got a single boss, and the other person is the secretary. That's it, just three people. I'd not think of leaving, but I'm currently waiting on word that I'll be hired at an IT consulting company doing what I really want to do.
So if I get the job, how do I leave since I'm the sole full-time technical person?
BTW: when I joined on there were two developers, but they left a month after I got there and the 'company' took a completely different direction and I got pigeonholed into being a project manager for a windows solution.
Amen, I used this to get through US History; redered the prof useless :-)
Mod parent up!!!
I just got through an ordeal of five years for my BS CS and it would have been much easier if I actually had a study/academic ethic worth a damn. None of my 5 computers and laptops in my home network or any number of palms that I've owned have by themselves helped me study/remember stuff; I'd usually forget to enter in the appt in the first place.
Mostly, all the technology hindered me. I played with Linux on my home network instead of studying and I played bubblet and solitaire on my palm instead of listening in class.
Damn I'm glad I buckled down and graduated, I don't think I'd have last much longer...
Hey, moderators, I'm not trolling. Look here or any other slashdot story based on a Eugenia review, you'll see that I'm not alone, nor deserving of -1, Troll!
Who still cares about BeOS?
The reviewer, Eugenia Loli-Queru. She is just about the most vocal and annoying Be fan on the internet. OSNews started as her soapbox for Be, and she cannot help but interject in *every* review that she writes, some mention of why Be is better than Windows/Linux/BSD/sex/God.
I shudder to think what the text of the review is like, now that she's writing about the supposed BeOS 6.
This is an often made faulty assumption of SMP. If the computer has 8 processors in an SMP configuration, then the shared memory and disk becomes a factor. I'll use an analogy that my old systems professor made:
:-)
Imagine you have a puzzle. With one person working on it, it takes 4 hours to finish. Put two people on the job and divide the pieces and it will take about 2 hours for each person, but you've got a new problem. What if a piece that one needs is in the other's pile? He has to get up and walk over to find it. And at the end, they've got to put the finished puzzle together.
This overhead increases dramatically as you add more people. You eventually run into a practical limit on how many people you can add before you're actually *losing* time due to overhead.
Naturally, this is an overly simplistic example and real computers are much better at handling the overhead, but one cannot assume that 8 processors == 1/8 time. It's more like 1/6 in real world experiments
You notice these things when you manage a linux cluster for a few years
With Linux, you're still on the x86 platform and you get to keep any ASM code, processor optimizations, and general hardware tweaks in the codebase. With OS X, you'd have to port over to an entirely different processor and motherboard, a change that is vastly more time consuming.
I'm surprised that no one has really caught on to this and instead blame marketing/politics/"It's what the developers like".
I doubt getting rid of stock is the reason. Word on the grapevine is that Apple is starting to tighten its grip on the retail front of their business.
It's an odd, but perfectly legitimate trend; Apple wants complete control over how their merchandise is sold. They're opening up Apple stores left and right and driving out old, established resellers in those markets. It's pissing a lot of people off, but it's still within their rights to do this, so long as there are no breaches of contract.
Oh right, like we're going to slashdot Amazon! There are a few sites that are moderately immune, you know...
*Sigh*, this argument comes up every time there's a new processor out.
There may be no pressing mainstream need for these processor's insane speeds now, but there are two things:
1) Niche markets which will utilize the higher speeds (video editing, photo editing, music production, scientific computing) and
2) the Future. Software will always find a way to use that extra power. We call it "bloat" normally, but then we usually forget about that and accept it as the norm and shun everyone who's running less than 2Ghz.
Better now? Move along