This is a good reason for me not to use thier service anymore. I use primus' VOIP telephone and Ive noticed its cutting in and out lately. This is just bogus and If it continues they will lose me as an internet customer. Shaw also recently announced thier VOIP service so this has to be considered anti-competitive.
I used to live in your area of the world 2 years ago. The quality of dialup there differs from ISP to ISP (ctel.net is much higher quality than powerlink.net). Same with cablemodems. I happen to know for a fact that the retards at Powerlink run all winnt based crap, while those at ctel which offer residential and commercial dsl/leased line run on {SUN/x86} {Solaris,Linux}. Roadrunner in the southern part of the state is run by a bunch of twits also, and go down every sunday morning for 2 hours at a time for "maintainance". Quality of Service reaches beyone speed. Uptime is crucial especially for anyone that works at home. Ive sinced move to another country (O Canada!) and the shawcable.net service here (albeit i dont know much about thier infastructure) is great! better than the commonly available crap in previously stated state. (@home was here previously here, and sucked ass).
The company i work for Net-Conex, An ISP centrally located in Vancouver, BC.
As Most people know, Vancouver gets a *lot* of Rain. Rain does *not* affect our lasers. The *only* thing so far that has affected them is snow. This could have also been due to these pre-release units did not have thier proper blinders on.
From what i have learned from the guys at fSONA, they actually use 4 laser beams, of which 2 can be blocked and have the laser still work. These 4 lasers are aimed into a central receiver on the other end, in the middle of the other 4 outgoing lasers. Fiber comes out the back, into either your 100baseFX or a media converter. Reliability issues are moot, when you combine these lasers with an alternate low cost (but usually slower!) solution, such as an 802.11 radio device. The lasers that we have deployed stretch over about a 800m strech.
when i worked at an ISP, we had the duty pager as well. We all got paid an hourly rate based on our salary*1.5. I feel this was a great way of doing it, and made people not feel so angry about being on call.
Kurt and I go way back, and I know he knows what he is doing. I was talking to him just the other night and he was installing debian. Now, i dont know how long he had to write the article, but I feel that Kurt most likely did not have the time to write a proper article? Isn't this how all journalism works? "Get that aricle in here, it has to be up by tomorrow!". The author has to rush and unfortunatly has to rush it out the door.
Also, since when has the linux community been so quick to anger? An angered response is a sign of somthing to hide, and also starts flame wars.
Comparing a bleeding edge product (postgres 7.0) vs. an older version of mysql (3.22) and saying it doesn't support transactions? Experimental Transaction support has been added
see here for details.
Notice how they didn't interview anyone besides the guy from Great Bridge.
Why can't we all just get along?
If you're going to hire a staff person (staff people) to administer your UNIX/Linux network, you will pay considerably more than for staff person/people to take care of that NT network. First, skilled UNIX admins are few and far between, and they require much more training so they can command more money. An NT admin can be had for much less, which is important when figuring out TCO
"You get what you pay for" When your network is down, and there isn't an explination in "the book" then what do you do? go hire another brainless NT Admin to say "You are going to have to be down 4 more hours while i use your company charge card to call microsoft tech support at 99.95/hr."
OR
Your unix admin who was working at 2am reading slashdot, drinking coke and being happy at his job (After all, he is a geek and geeks get paid to do what they love..) treats the problem as a new challange and goes after it and has it done before you know its down. Once again, you get what you pay for.
DB2 UDB is available for both platforms (bias alert: I work on DB2) and from what I see, DB2 runs pretty well on both platforms Attention: I work at a E-Commerce Company, and were were sold the "DB2/Net.Commerce" Bullcrap by IBM (I wasn't with the company at the time) and we use IBM Hardware (netfinitys) on NT, and it is just a complete dog. DB2 Lacks the basic functionality (Case-Insestivity,AUTO_INCREMENT, a lot of ALTER TABLE stuff, etc..) To be ever considered a well rounded database. Benchmarks are inheritently wrong anyway, so whats the big deal anyway? In perspective, our Linux-webserver with a Mysql Content backend is at least 5 times faster than the netfinity/nt/db2 P.O.S. Real world benchmarks serving dynamic content are the key.
There isn's nearly one program that most people use that would actually make getting a dual PIII Ghz machine worth it. I can't speak for all devleopers, but for myself, cutting down times in compiling code, and being able to multi-task and do somthing else while the code is compiling, without speed-downs, is absolutly crucial for productivity. I Have a Dual-500mhz machine, and i max out both cpu's all the time. Having Twice the power would almost double my productivity. As for most users - Anything that is multi-threaded and cpu-intensive will take full advantage of these cpu's. I believe that apps like 3d max are multi-threaded and can take advantage of the SMP. My artist friend has to take whole afternoons off while his animations are rendering because he can't use his system for other things while it is rendering. he has a single cpu. If he had a dual-cpu system, im sure he could be doing other things(photoshop,email,etc) while his images rendered. Just my 2 Cents (3 in canada)
Do dual Athlons motherboard exits?, and at what cost? I do not believe there is one out there yet, but here, near the bottom it says that tyan is making a board to be released Q4-2000 , Codename Dolphin, that is supposidly Dual-CPU capable.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=XON&q=Karen+Ciesla+computer&btnG=Search
entry #2.
ceisla is her maiden name i believe.
http://www.austin.isd.tenet.edu/schools/staff.phtml?teacher=1600
http://www.karenware.com/bio.asp
I think COW fits..
http://www.karenware.com/
http://www.austin.isd.tenet.edu/schools/staff.phtml?teacher=1600
Gotta be her, right?
My googlefoo of "AISD Middle School karen" lead to this:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=MS2&q=+site:www.austin.isd.tenet.edu+AISD+Middle+School+karen
Now im too lazy to figure out which one it is.
This is a good reason for me not to use thier service anymore. I use primus' VOIP telephone and Ive noticed its cutting in and out lately. This is just bogus and If it continues they will lose me as an internet customer. Shaw also recently announced thier VOIP service so this has to be considered anti-competitive.
No, it isnt free. I did this, and they charge CAD 50$. not a big deal though
AFAIK the solaris 8 sparc free binary is for 1-8 cpus.. maybe 16..
I used to live in your area of the world 2 years ago. The quality of dialup there differs from ISP to ISP (ctel.net is much higher quality than powerlink.net). Same with cablemodems. I happen to know for a fact that the retards at Powerlink run all winnt based crap, while those at ctel which offer residential and commercial dsl/leased line run on {SUN/x86} {Solaris,Linux}. Roadrunner in the southern part of the state is run by a bunch of twits also, and go down every sunday morning for 2 hours at a time for "maintainance". Quality of Service reaches beyone speed. Uptime is crucial especially for anyone that works at home. Ive sinced move to another country (O Canada!) and the shawcable.net service here (albeit i dont know much about thier infastructure) is great! better than the commonly available crap in previously stated state. (@home was here previously here, and sucked ass).
The company i work for Net-Conex, An ISP centrally located in Vancouver, BC.
As Most people know, Vancouver gets a *lot* of Rain. Rain does *not* affect our lasers. The *only* thing so far that has affected them is snow. This could have also been due to these pre-release units did not have thier proper blinders on.
From what i have learned from the guys at fSONA, they actually use 4 laser beams, of which 2 can be blocked and have the laser still work. These 4 lasers are aimed into a central receiver on the other end, in the middle of the other 4 outgoing lasers. Fiber comes out the back, into either your 100baseFX or a media converter. Reliability issues are moot, when you combine these lasers with an alternate low cost (but usually slower!) solution, such as an 802.11 radio device. The lasers that we have deployed stretch over about a 800m strech.
Our hours of operation were 24/7. even if you were in the office, you got the oncall rate. 'Twas a great system.
when i worked at an ISP, we had the duty pager as well. We all got paid an hourly rate based on our salary*1.5. I feel this was a great way of doing it, and made people not feel so angry about being on call.
Kurt and I go way back, and I know he knows what he is doing. I was talking to him just the other night and he was installing debian. Now, i dont know how long he had to write the article, but I feel that Kurt most likely did not have the time to write a proper article? Isn't this how all journalism works? "Get that aricle in here, it has to be up by tomorrow!". The author has to rush and unfortunatly has to rush it out the door.
Also, since when has the linux community been so quick to anger? An angered response is a sign of somthing to hide, and also starts flame wars.
Comparing a bleeding edge product (postgres 7.0) vs. an older version of mysql (3.22) and saying it doesn't support transactions? Experimental Transaction support has been added see here for details. Notice how they didn't interview anyone besides the guy from Great Bridge. Why can't we all just get along?
If you're going to hire a staff person (staff people) to administer your UNIX/Linux network, you will pay considerably more than for staff person/people to take care of that NT network. First, skilled UNIX admins are few and far between, and they require much more training so they can command more money. An NT admin can be had for much less, which is important when figuring out TCO
"You get what you pay for" When your network is down, and there isn't an explination in "the book" then what do you do? go hire another brainless NT Admin to say "You are going to have to be down 4 more hours while i use your company charge card to call microsoft tech support at 99.95/hr."
OR
Your unix admin who was working at 2am reading slashdot, drinking coke and being happy at his job (After all, he is a geek and geeks get paid to do what they love..) treats the problem as a new challange and goes after it and has it done before you know its down.
Once again, you get what you pay for.
DB2 UDB is available for both platforms (bias alert: I work on DB2) and from what I see, DB2 runs pretty well on both platforms
Attention: I work at a E-Commerce Company, and were were sold the "DB2/Net.Commerce" Bullcrap by IBM (I wasn't with the company at the time) and we use IBM Hardware (netfinitys) on NT, and it is just a complete dog. DB2 Lacks the basic functionality (Case-Insestivity,AUTO_INCREMENT, a lot of ALTER TABLE stuff, etc..) To be ever considered a well rounded database.
Benchmarks are inheritently wrong anyway, so whats the big deal anyway?
In perspective, our Linux-webserver with a Mysql Content backend is at least 5 times faster than the netfinity/nt/db2 P.O.S. Real world benchmarks serving dynamic content are the key.
There isn's nearly one program that most people use that would actually make getting a dual PIII Ghz machine worth it. I can't speak for all devleopers, but for myself, cutting down times in compiling code, and being able to multi-task and do somthing else while the code is compiling, without speed-downs, is absolutly crucial for productivity.
I Have a Dual-500mhz machine, and i max out both cpu's all the time. Having Twice the power would almost double my productivity. As for most users - Anything that is multi-threaded and cpu-intensive will take full advantage of these cpu's. I believe that apps like 3d max are multi-threaded and can take advantage of the SMP. My artist friend has to take whole afternoons off while his animations are rendering because he can't use his system for other things while it is rendering. he has a single cpu. If he had a dual-cpu system, im sure he could be doing other things(photoshop,email,etc) while his images rendered. Just my 2 Cents (3 in canada)
Do dual Athlons motherboard exits?, and at what cost?
I do not believe there is one out there yet, but here, near the bottom it says that tyan is making a board to be released Q4-2000 , Codename Dolphin, that is supposidly Dual-CPU capable.