In Foundation and Earth, by Isaac Asimov, Golan Trevize finds his space ship (and his space suit) attacked by a (planet borne) fungus/mold that appears to feed on carbon dioxide emissions from tiny leaks around seams, etc. It is described as the potentially the most horribly dangerous plague... imagine it infecting someone's lungs. Yum.
about 1.5Mk/s per processor which is on par with a Xeon 500. Which, oddly enough, is on par with a Celeron 500. The cache on a chip doesn't seem to make a difference with RC5 (unlike SETI)
It doesn't matter if Suns aren't well suited for your use. They are amazing servers, and nobody really gives a shit if they run games or not. That's not what they're for.
So you like Athlons. Fine. I like RS/6000s. Fine. And RS/6000s don't exactly have a lot of games available. But the old 43Ps we had at work outserved the fancy shiny new NT boxes in every way. That's what they're for. So bug off.
Oddly enough, the requirements seem to be pretty low... http://www.stationterminus.com/ lists the hw requirements as a P200 with 32 megs of ram, and sw as linux or win9x or macos. Of course, that's probably like Doom on a 386/20. Jim
A quick thought.... Because an American invented the telephone, does that mean that we own the telephones in England? Do we own all the world's radios? The software (that Americans, you say, made) that runs the internet was _purchased_. The infrastructure of the internet in other countries is not owned by the US. The ideas behind it may have originated in the US, but the US in no way owns the internet, any more than we own telephone communication.
And you say that the US produces 99% of the hardware running the internet. This is completely untrue. I challenge you to find even one part of the computer you're sitting in front of that was made in the US.
This is HUMOR. Not flamebait. I'm getting tired of moderators moderating even _funny_ anti-linux posts down. Don't moderate something down because you disagree with it. Moderate it down because it is of the hot grits or Natalie Portman variety.
His argument is entirely valid. Breeding between tigers and lions is similar to breeding a horse and a donkey. Genetically, horses and donkeys are similar enough, and the chromosomes match well enough that they are fertile. Their offspring, mules, are fertile. Similarly, all male ligers are thought to be sterile. A rare female liger is fertile. Interbreeding between races results in a perfectly normal, intelligent human being. They are fertile, and except for a one or two genes, are genetically indistinguishable from any other race on earth. (liger != tiger != lion) && (mule != horse != donkey)
The fact that they've only put 15 people on fixing the gaping holes suggests that this is not in earnest. I mean, honestly... we're to believe that 15 people combing through thousands of lines of spaghetti logic visual basic code are going to be able to make W2k a secure OS??!? I would suggest that this is merely a way for them to say "look!! we're secure!!"
waiting on my OS/2 cds and Mandrake 7.. gotta nuke this win98 install.
I assume that USR made the decision to use AAAs instead of AAs because AAs resulted in a device that was too thick. If you've opened your Palm (Of course not!! That would void the warranty.), you probably noticed that the deciding factor in the Palm's thickness is the battery type (and the thickness of the LCD). But with such amazing battery life, who needs AAs anyway?
I bought a great stack-type heatsink at a local surplus place. The thing looks like the cylinder on a lawnmower, but its amazing! I mounted a case fan next to it, so it blows the heat up (tower case) into the power supply (I of course reversed the ps fan). My K62 now runs at 42 deg Celcius (before, it ran at 50-55).
I dunno - EVERY maxtor I have owned has kicked the bucket. - an 80 meg, an 814, and a 270. I've also had 4 out of 4 wd's go bad (although one was caused by abuse - the owner unplugged the power and then plugged it back in w/o turning off the computer). I had 2 out of 5 Seagates go bad (one was dropped) I have an ancient Quantum and a Conner that still run great, though. I currently have an IBM 6.4 - awesome drive.
IMHO, I would only buy an IBM. Maybe a Quantum, though not likely.
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Ahem. JOKE!!!! It was meant to be funny. (Either that, or the poster is a complete idiot.)
In Foundation and Earth, by Isaac Asimov, Golan Trevize finds his space ship (and his space suit) attacked by a (planet borne) fungus/mold that appears to feed on carbon dioxide emissions from tiny leaks around seams, etc. It is described as the potentially the most horribly dangerous plague... imagine it infecting someone's lungs. Yum.
What a perfect example of mis-moderation? Why is this funny? Dragon is making a legitimate, and accurate comment.
Insightful and interesting? Yes. Funny? No.
about 1.5Mk/s per processor which is on par with a Xeon 500.
Which, oddly enough, is on par with a Celeron 500. The cache on a chip doesn't seem to make a difference with RC5 (unlike SETI)
It doesn't matter if Suns aren't well suited for your use. They are amazing servers, and nobody really gives a shit if they run games or not. That's not what they're for.
So you like Athlons. Fine. I like RS/6000s. Fine. And RS/6000s don't exactly have a lot of games available. But the old 43Ps we had at work outserved the fancy shiny new NT boxes in every way. That's what they're for. So bug off.
Did anyone read the article at Mac Junkie? The author said he would eat his hockey puck mouse if the cube was real... Let's hold him to it....
I was you, wasn't it? "Sometimes," huh?
*grin*
Oddly enough, the requirements seem to be pretty low...
http://www.stationterminus.com/ lists the hw requirements as a P200 with 32 megs of ram, and sw as linux or win9x or macos. Of course, that's probably like Doom on a 386/20.
Jim
A quick thought....
Because an American invented the telephone, does that mean that we own the telephones in England? Do we own all the world's radios? The software (that Americans, you say, made) that runs the internet was _purchased_. The infrastructure of the internet in other countries is not owned by the US. The ideas behind it may have originated in the US, but the US in no way owns the internet, any more than we own telephone communication.
And you say that the US produces 99% of the hardware running the internet. This is completely untrue. I challenge you to find even one part of the computer you're sitting in front of that was made in the US.
So there.
Jim
This is HUMOR. Not flamebait. I'm getting tired of moderators moderating even _funny_ anti-linux posts down. Don't moderate something down because you disagree with it. Moderate it down because it is of the hot grits or Natalie Portman variety.
My $2E-2
Jim
His argument is entirely valid. Breeding between tigers and lions is similar to breeding a horse and a donkey. Genetically, horses and donkeys are similar enough, and the chromosomes match well enough that they are fertile. Their offspring, mules, are fertile. Similarly, all male ligers are thought to be sterile. A rare female liger is fertile.
Interbreeding between races results in a perfectly normal, intelligent human being. They are fertile, and except for a one or two genes, are genetically indistinguishable from any other race on earth.
(liger != tiger != lion) && (mule != horse != donkey)
but black or white, people are still people.
so there.
Jim
The fact that they've only put 15 people on fixing the gaping holes suggests that this is not in earnest. I mean, honestly... we're to believe that 15 people combing through thousands of lines of spaghetti logic visual basic code are going to be able to make W2k a secure OS??!? I would suggest that this is merely a way for them to say "look!! we're secure!!"
waiting on my OS/2 cds and Mandrake 7.. gotta nuke this win98 install.
jim
I assume that USR made the decision to use AAAs instead of AAs because AAs resulted in a device that was too thick. If you've opened your Palm (Of course not!! That would void the warranty.), you probably noticed that the deciding factor in the Palm's thickness is the battery type (and the thickness of the LCD). But with such amazing battery life, who needs AAs anyway?
Just my 0.085 shekels.
I feel competent to comment on this...
Black holes do not suck, any more than vacuum sucks. It just irritates me when people say that.
Science doesn't suck. It blows.
I bought a great stack-type heatsink at a local surplus place. The thing looks like the cylinder on a lawnmower, but its amazing! I mounted a case fan next to it, so it blows the heat up (tower case) into the power supply (I of course reversed the ps fan). My K62 now runs at 42 deg Celcius (before, it ran at 50-55).
I dunno - EVERY maxtor I have owned has kicked the bucket. - an 80 meg, an 814, and a 270.
I've also had 4 out of 4 wd's go bad (although one was caused by abuse - the owner unplugged the power and then plugged it back in w/o turning off the computer).
I had 2 out of 5 Seagates go bad (one was dropped)
I have an ancient Quantum and a Conner that still run great, though.
I currently have an IBM 6.4 - awesome drive.
IMHO, I would only buy an IBM. Maybe a Quantum, though not likely.