Well, it's not if they have a clue. They need to have a clue and the power to do something about it. Unfortunately, those two traits are often mutually exclusive.
Of course, you can feel free to activate any of the CPU's on your own, but doing that will invalidate your multi-million dollar support agreement with IBM.
It's called Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD). Check IBM's site for more info.
The machines generally have all their processor slots populated, and IBM can remotely toggle them on when you need more CPU power for a workload. This is a cost effective way of providing users with the ability to upgrade as their computing needs grow. The cost of the idle CPU's is marginal when the entire system cost is taken into account.
What's that? What prevents a user from toggling on an idle CPU themselves? Nothing...other than invalidating their multi-million dollar maintenance contract with IBM.
Wow. I'm really impressed with the work Apple's putting into its UNIX subsystem. This gives me yet another reason to purchase that iBook I've had my eye on.:-)
I thought about joining the FBI after graduating from college, but the absurdly low pay turned me off. They require two years of work experience before considering a candidate, and then they hire you at a "training wage" of $45K. After you graduate from the FBI academy, your salary ranges from $53-$58K.
I would love to be a Special Agent, but I'm not impressed with salaries that are $10-$20K below market rate. Granted, there are the warm fuzzies that you get from being one of the "good guys", but that doesn't put food on the table.
Now we know why our agents leak so many secrets to the Russians:)
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It's times like this I really appreciate my 10mbit down/1 mbit up broadband link. It's only $39.95 a month!
You're still wrong. Mainframes are going to be replaced with...more modern mainframes!
When you need bet-the-business reliability, you really can't go anywhere else.
Wow - that's a nasty one. You should definitely file a bug report on that!
Justman in da house! :-)
I wonder what a beowulf cluster of Keplers would look like?
SPISPOPD == Smashing Pumkpins Into Stinking Piles Of Pumpkin Debris.
Well, it's not if they have a clue. They need to have a clue and the power to do something about it. Unfortunately, those two traits are often mutually exclusive.
Of course, you can feel free to activate any of the CPU's on your own, but doing that will invalidate your multi-million dollar support agreement with IBM.
This person speaks the truth - Ars Technica is well worth your time.
The only thing I couldn't figure out was how to train the statistical filter well.
Simple...pay someone to sit there and sift through adult sites.
Crashed every hour? Heck, I remember when the mean time to failure for Mozilla reached an hour! That was a major accomplishment!
KiB = 2*10 bytes = 1024 bytes
KB = 10*3 bytes = 1000 bytes
as defined by the IEEE...
Are you planning on fixing the link to your consulting web site? It doesn't seem to exist.
Disclaimer: I'm a member of the Blue Collective.
It's called Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD). Check IBM's site for more info.
The machines generally have all their processor slots populated, and IBM can remotely toggle them on when you need more CPU power for a workload. This is a cost effective way of providing users with the ability to upgrade as their computing needs grow. The cost of the idle CPU's is marginal when the entire system cost is taken into account.
What's that? What prevents a user from toggling on an idle CPU themselves? Nothing...other than invalidating their multi-million dollar maintenance contract with IBM.
We also help out on the z/OS (S/390) port of Vim.
$8.00 is CHEAP in my area...most theaters are up to $9.00 per ticket now.
Um...they ARE selling at 1500MHz. The Athlon XP 1800 clocks at a bit more than 1.5 GHz.
Guess it's time to upgrade, huh?
The Altivec vector processing unit on the G4 does wonders for RC5 processing.
Honda's four cylinder engines are INLINE fours.
Actually, WinNT also ran on the NEC MIPS and Motorola PowerPC platforms.
It's not a self-extracting zip file. It's a full-blown installer that launches an interactive setup program.
I can imagine that one of those would be useful on one of those 4000x3000 video wall composite displays.
Wow. I'm really impressed with the work Apple's putting into its UNIX subsystem. This gives me yet another reason to purchase that iBook I've had my eye on. :-)
I thought about joining the FBI after graduating from college, but the absurdly low pay turned me off. They require two years of work experience before considering a candidate, and then they hire you at a "training wage" of $45K. After you graduate from the FBI academy, your salary ranges from $53-$58K.
:)
I would love to be a Special Agent, but I'm not impressed with salaries that are $10-$20K below market rate. Granted, there are the warm fuzzies that you get from being one of the "good guys", but that doesn't put food on the table.
Now we know why our agents leak so many secrets to the Russians
I like having hlsearch on - it makes it easier to see all the search hits at a glance.
The colored syntax highlighting makes it that much easier for me to scan my code. I'm not a "real" hacker because I use it, then so be it.
Blame the Dutch. A kill is a group of fish.