12-port gig fiber w/10 gig uplink 1U http://www.enterasys.com/products/item s/1G694-13/ Should have 802.3ae compliance in a few months, from what I hear.
From the article:
/* From this definition, it follows that a cache-line is also the smallest unit of memory that can be transferred between the cache(s) and the processor */
I beg your pardon? A typical cache line is (e.g) 32 processor words...if you told me your processor architect made decisions such that I had to load 32 words to the CPU every time I accessed a memory location, I'd tell you you need a new architect!:-) Though the rest of the article seems fairly accurate (I'm not done reading yet) this is definitely wrong. The minimum amount of data that can be transferred between the cache and the processor depends on the bus width between the cache and CPU and whether or not the CPU will ignore some of the lines, for example if you have a 32-bit bus but the processor chooses to only pay attention to the low or high order 16. Anyway, this is silliness and clearly does NOT follow from the quote in the article.
--denim
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> Take a worldwide survey, and I think you'll find that most *individuals*
aren't willing to admit to themselves that they're really greedy
bastards, and that it makes them feel better about themselves if they
claim to be good people on a survey; then they don't have to actually go
act like they really care, they can just talk about it.
I work at a real hardware company...I'm a hardware design engineer. The president and VP wear shirt & tie, but rarely a suit except for media appearances. The engineers wear whatever (from shorts/sandals/T-shirt to shirt & tie (only a few w/ties though), the management wears _nice_ shorts and golf shirts half the time, the rest of the time it's Its. Generalization works well for generals, I suppose...companies are reasonably unique.
Speaking of/. as if it has already changed and prejudging its future reeks of excessive stupidity...the only reasonable action is to wait and see what changes will occur. Removing/. from your favourites and dropping it as your portal of choice seems a bit premature. It's like saying a movie _is_ the best movie of all time when it's still being filmed and you haven't heard anything substantive about it.
Only time will tell. I hope and feel that the changes will be for the better. If they aren't, _then_ I will leave - not sooner.
Lesse...I've got $3 and (counts change) 37 cents. I'll throw in a cheesesteak sub, a bottle of 6-year-old scotch, and a Budweiser wall poster as a signing bonus.
Why would you need a boot prom that big? All it needs to do is send the BOOTP request to a network machine that has a HDD with a BOOTP server and the OS you want to boot for install. The very first machine you set up needs a floppy or CD to boot from, but once you're past that you can get by withoutany removable media anywhere in your network. I'm not saying it's a good idea, but it depends on the system. Heck, with some BIOSes you don't even need a boot prom - just set it to "Boot from LAN first." It's actually pretty nice not to have any noisy HDDs/CDs/floppies on the machine in your bedroom - just the noise from the PS and monitor.
Just because the distortions are invisible to the naked eye doesn't mean the effects will be. The distortions will effectively be many small concave/convex lenses moving around with the sound. It might not be enough to show, but then again it might bother some people - 60Hz refresh is fine for some people, but even 76Hz isn't enough for some. I'd want to see an eyestrain study done on monitors with this technology before I used it. Also, even small vibrations on a fairly continuous basis could be bad juju for electronics...most motherboards I've seen aren't really that vibrationally stable. Any surface mount components could potentially be very sensitive to these things - I've always wondered about the Intel flash chips that come in a microBGA package with "wings" that stick out nearly a centimeter past the last pin/pad...I'd think they'd resonate at some frequency. Oops...getting off topic. That'll do, I guess.
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12-port gig fiber w/10 gig uplinkm s/1G694-13/
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Should have 802.3ae compliance in a few months, from what I hear.
From the article:
:-) Though the rest of the article seems fairly accurate (I'm not done reading yet) this is definitely wrong. The minimum amount of data that can be transferred between the cache and the processor depends on the bus width between the cache and CPU and whether or not the CPU will ignore some of the lines, for example if you have a 32-bit bus but the processor chooses to only pay attention to the low or high order 16. Anyway, this is silliness and clearly does NOT follow from the quote in the article.
/* From this definition, it follows that a cache-line is also the smallest unit of memory that can be transferred between the cache(s) and the processor */
I beg your pardon? A typical cache line is (e.g) 32 processor words...if you told me your processor architect made decisions such that I had to load 32 words to the CPU every time I accessed a memory location, I'd tell you you need a new architect!
--denim
> Take a worldwide survey, and I think you'll find that most *individuals*
aren't willing to admit to themselves that they're really greedy
bastards, and that it makes them feel better about themselves if they
claim to be good people on a survey; then they don't have to actually go
act like they really care, they can just talk about it.
I work at a real hardware company...I'm a hardware design engineer. The president and VP wear shirt & tie, but rarely a suit except for media appearances. The engineers wear whatever (from shorts/sandals/T-shirt to shirt & tie (only a few w/ties though), the management wears _nice_ shorts and golf shirts half the time, the rest of the time it's Its. Generalization works well for generals, I suppose...companies are reasonably unique.
Speaking of /. as if it has already changed and prejudging its future reeks of excessive stupidity...the only reasonable action is to wait and see what changes will occur. Removing /. from your favourites and dropping it as your portal of choice seems a bit premature. It's like saying a movie _is_ the best movie of all time when it's still being filmed and you haven't heard anything substantive about it.
Only time will tell. I hope and feel that the changes will be for the better. If they aren't, _then_ I will leave - not sooner.
Lesse...I've got $3 and (counts change) 37 cents. I'll throw in a cheesesteak sub, a bottle of 6-year-old scotch, and a Budweiser wall poster as a signing bonus.
Why would you need a boot prom that big? All it needs to do is send the BOOTP request to a network machine that has a HDD with a BOOTP server and the OS you want to boot for install. The very first machine you set up needs a floppy or CD to boot from, but once you're past that you can get by withoutany removable media anywhere in your network. I'm not saying it's a good idea, but it depends on the system. Heck, with some BIOSes you don't even need a boot prom - just set it to "Boot from LAN first." It's actually pretty nice not to have any noisy HDDs/CDs/floppies on the machine in your bedroom - just the noise from the PS and monitor.
Just because the distortions are invisible to the naked eye doesn't mean the effects will be. The distortions will effectively be many small concave/convex lenses moving around with the sound. It might not be enough to show, but then again it might bother some people - 60Hz refresh is fine for some people, but even 76Hz isn't enough for some. I'd want to see an eyestrain study done on monitors with this technology before I used it. Also, even small vibrations on a fairly continuous basis could be bad juju for electronics...most motherboards I've seen aren't really that vibrationally stable. Any surface mount components could potentially be very sensitive to these things - I've always wondered about the Intel flash chips that come in a microBGA package with "wings" that stick out nearly a centimeter past the last pin/pad...I'd think they'd resonate at some frequency. Oops...getting off topic. That'll do, I guess.