I will sell it to them. In fact, for significant fee I will supply them with the 'Professional' version complete with the word 'Professional' written all over it.
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(offtopic)
When I first arrived at this job under two years ago, I was limited in the number of non MS servers I was allowed to provide. Just 1.5 years later, ditching windows wholesale is near a reality as it is 'too hard to support our driver and our hardware' (quote from management) for windows users.
A few years ago it was being argued on/. that geeks had no real control. I say we have decent control now that us ageing geeks have positions of influence. Do not lose hope, the only real fear should be what platform you will chose when everyone uses a Unix lookalike...
You know the cheap blue laser diode was figured out before DVD's went into any kinf of large production. Almost ten years later we actually think about using them. So it will be when we really do figure out any kind of cheap fusion. So... Even if this fable proves to be fact, you will still not survive holding your breath.
If you want your server to scale then you should probably consider plain old C. Maybe C++ if you if you are bent that way. I would suggest (flamebait, I know) that no other language will give you the goods that you may find yourself needing. Build it on a BSD/Linux PC but then suddenly find this baby needs to run on an Ultrasparc, and C will be your friend. Build it in C# and try to get a bunch of little machines to do the work of one good one i.e. you could be screwed.
One offtopic word of warning. Do not allow the clients to send data to each other. Ever. Dont take that shortcut. Otherwise the cheaters will ruin whatever you build.
  c) Realise that cut and paste on a VCR is a silly idea.
But cut 'n paste on a development envirenment is not a silly idea. Its almost mandatory. Hell, you probably have cut 'n paste in your VT without even a GUI.
It aint nothin unless it runs on Linux, My tivo has only crashed no more than 6 times in the last year, I would hate for my PVR to be worse than that...
It seems to me that it would be foolish to think that a country that is heavily dependant on the Internet, could not be brought to its knees by attacking the commerce bearing infrastructure. This smacks a little less like 'Fortress USA' and more like 'Fortress US Gov't'.
I guess it just seems like a short sighted approach. Its not even a quick fix, just a narrow view.
I would not presume to have the knoweledge to fix all the problems he has identified in the 'Give for free, everyone benifits' proccess.
But it is something that most of us believe in for our own reasons. And becouse of that I would suggest that maybe developers need more positive reinforcement in what they do. Most of us (me included) only think to give feedback when we want something more or we think they are doing something badly.
What about when we agree with what they are doing or when they are doing something well?
You have to admit that when everything you see in hear about what you are doing is negative, you gain negative feelings about what you are doing.
She suffers from 'Clock Envy'
on
Clockless Chips
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· Score: 1
Example:
But after a point, cranking up the clock speed becomes an exercise in diminishing returns. That's why a one-gigahertz chip doesn't run twice as fast as a 500-megahertz chip.
She doesnt realize that it's not the size of your
clock that matters but how you use it.
To support that claim I give you the common misnomer that the famous Intel with his huge 1Ghz clock can outperform the lesser known Sun with a 450 Mhz clock. Yes I could mention bus speed, or instructions per cycle etc.. but that wouldn't be funny now would it?
And two weeks after you get it you will still be talking to it thusly:
"Good boy!"
"How old are you?"
nothing
"How old are you?"
and from the resulting combination of luminated parking lights you realize that it still cant use the CD player.
The most secure method to prevent hacking/cracking
on
GOVNET In the Works
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· Score: 1
is to unplug and bury your system in your back yard and loose the dogs.
Methinks the real solution is to secure what we have instead of avoiding the subject by building a new sandbox that no one is allowed in.
Not becouse I have to, rather becouse I want to.
Not everyone needs to know my spending habits.
Cash still spends very well for a number of things and I would hate for that not to be an option.
Its probably a good idea to move away from cycles as a measure of performance. I mean, which would you want: A 3Ghz i386 or a 1.6ghz athlon?
Cycles != performace. But it does give a clue and a half as to how a CPU is going to perform against a like CPU.
A 300mhz pIII will likely be roughly 1/2 the speed
of a 600mhz pIII (disregard any bus speeds or other bottle necks).
So uhhh, about how much faster is a Athlon Millinium Edition(tm) compared to Athlon 2000?
Not to detract from there accomplishment, I am sure they really did do it if they said they did it and this is really exciting stuff.
But IBM is not unaccustom to doing this sort of press release simply for the publicity of it.
I seem to remember a press release (which they had to buy add space to get it published I guess) back in the early 90's. 92 or 93 maybe. They claimed to have created the worlds first 1024 bit cpu.
I wouldnt suggest they are building this stuff for PR. I am just saying that is the purpose of the press release (just like most articles of this sort). Oh ya, someones cool project at IBM needs to keep getting funding of course.
Just dont assume it will be useable for anything practicle in OUR lifetime.
It took 20 years to get from 8 bit to 64 bit. And most of us use 32 bit just like we did 10 years ago.(this refers to commodity hardware, not the big iron).
Ah screw it.Never mind. Its cool stuff no matter what the press geeks do with it.
Slashdot Mirror
Its a symbiote.
I will sell it to them. In fact, for significant fee I will supply them with the 'Professional' version complete with the word 'Professional' written all over it.
Ok, who put this submission in their cron job?
and say "Just becouse I dont know what it is doesnt mean I am lying"
your average scsi3x raid0 array.
Or sendmail, KDE, reiserfs.
NOTICE: this version of brandA network driver has expired, to reenable your network driver, download the latest version from www.brandA.com imediately.
Bullshit. I thought this died with shareware?
Kermit (yes the frog, not the protocol)
It got my wife on my case and my only defense was 'But hon, sweety, I use dotster. Honest!' . She had to read the fine print before she believed me.
(offtopic) /. that geeks had no real control. I say we have decent control now that us ageing geeks have positions of influence. Do not lose hope, the only real fear should be what platform you will chose when everyone uses a Unix lookalike...
When I first arrived at this job under two years ago, I was limited in the number of non MS servers I was allowed to provide. Just 1.5 years later, ditching windows wholesale is near a reality as it is 'too hard to support our driver and our hardware' (quote from management) for windows users.
A few years ago it was being argued on
You know the cheap blue laser diode was figured out before DVD's went into any kinf of large production. Almost ten years later we actually think about using them. So it will be when we really do figure out any kind of cheap fusion. So... Even if this fable proves to be fact, you will still not survive holding your breath.
If you want your server to scale then you should probably consider plain old C. Maybe C++ if you if you are bent that way. I would suggest (flamebait, I know) that no other language will give you the goods that you may find yourself needing. Build it on a BSD/Linux PC but then suddenly find this baby needs to run on an Ultrasparc, and C will be your friend. Build it in C# and try to get a bunch of little machines to do the work of one good one i.e. you could be screwed.
One offtopic word of warning. Do not allow the clients to send data to each other. Ever. Dont take that shortcut. Otherwise the cheaters will ruin whatever you build.
  c) Realise that cut and paste on a VCR is a silly idea.
But cut 'n paste on a development envirenment is not a silly idea. Its almost mandatory. Hell, you probably have cut 'n paste in your VT without even a GUI.
It aint nothin unless it runs on Linux, My tivo has only crashed no more than 6 times in the last year, I would hate for my PVR to be worse than that...
It seems to me that it would be foolish to think that a country that is heavily dependant on the Internet, could not be brought to its knees by attacking the commerce bearing infrastructure. This smacks a little less like 'Fortress USA' and more like 'Fortress US Gov't'.
I guess it just seems like a short sighted approach. Its not even a quick fix, just a narrow view.
I would not presume to have the knoweledge to fix all the problems he has identified in the 'Give for free, everyone benifits' proccess.
But it is something that most of us believe in for our own reasons. And becouse of that I would suggest that maybe developers need more positive reinforcement in what they do. Most of us (me included) only think to give feedback when we want something more or we think they are doing something badly.
What about when we agree with what they are doing or when they are doing something well?
You have to admit that when everything you see in hear about what you are doing is negative, you gain negative feelings about what you are doing.
Example:
But after a point, cranking up the clock speed becomes an exercise in diminishing returns. That's why a one-gigahertz chip doesn't run twice as fast as a 500-megahertz chip.
She doesnt realize that it's not the size of your clock that matters but how you use it.
To support that claim I give you the common misnomer that the famous Intel with his huge 1Ghz clock can outperform the lesser known Sun with a 450 Mhz clock.
Yes I could mention bus speed, or instructions per cycle etc.. but that wouldn't be funny now would it?
And two weeks after you get it you will still be talking to it thusly:
"Good boy!"
"How old are you?"
nothing
"How old are you?"
and from the resulting combination of luminated parking lights you realize that it still cant use the CD player.
is to unplug and bury your system in your back yard and loose the dogs.
Methinks the real solution is to secure what we have instead of avoiding the subject by building a new sandbox that no one is allowed in.
Not becouse I have to, rather becouse I want to.
Not everyone needs to know my spending habits.
Cash still spends very well for a number of things and I would hate for that not to be an option.
is Riven. Lots of wierd interesting stuff with a hint of problem solving.
Ill call my new device BuzzBuster(tm)...
Ok, not that funny. But if someones gonna say it its gonna have to be me.
Oops, meant digital, not DEC. Not awake yet.
That was DEC, not Compaq. Compaq had little to do with NT on Alpha untill just a few years ago.
Its probably a good idea to move away from cycles as a measure of performance. I mean, which would you want: A 3Ghz i386 or a 1.6ghz athlon?
Cycles != performace. But it does give a clue and a half as to how a CPU is going to perform against a like CPU.
A 300mhz pIII will likely be roughly 1/2 the speed
of a 600mhz pIII (disregard any bus speeds or other bottle necks).
So uhhh, about how much faster is a Athlon Millinium Edition(tm) compared to Athlon 2000?
Not to detract from there accomplishment, I am sure they really did do it if they said they did it and this is really exciting stuff.
But IBM is not unaccustom to doing this sort of press release simply for the publicity of it.
I seem to remember a press release (which they had to buy add space to get it published I guess) back in the early 90's. 92 or 93 maybe. They claimed to have created the worlds first 1024 bit cpu.
I wouldnt suggest they are building this stuff for PR. I am just saying that is the purpose of the press release (just like most articles of this sort). Oh ya, someones cool project at IBM needs to keep getting funding of course.
Just dont assume it will be useable for anything practicle in OUR lifetime.
It took 20 years to get from 8 bit to 64 bit. And most of us use 32 bit just like we did 10 years ago.(this refers to commodity hardware, not the big iron).
Ah screw it.Never mind. Its cool stuff no matter what the press geeks do with it.