Thank God for that. I was wondering how long it would take them to catch on to the fact that creating a markup "standard" that doesn't have a one-to-one translation to XHTML/HTML is a Bad Idea.
So basically, we can never have a markup standard
that does anything else than exactly what XHTML and HTML can do -- and that means, never any other standard.
4. The IA-64 based versions of the 3000 series will include the Linux kernel along an some IRIX compatibility layer.
I wonder how this can be possible -- it sounds like something marketing pushed through because "Linux is very hip". Who the f. would be dumb enough to run Linux/Intel on one of these things?
Linux scales well to what, 4 processors?
Of course, this is my uninformed impression. But IMO Linux is for PCs -- and there's a helluva big difference between Linux & Cox and the people at SGI, and certainly also between the software they write.
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No, they're called telnet and ftp. And the security model is better integrated than these silly ad hoc solutions.
Thank God for that. I was wondering how long it would take them to catch on to the fact that creating a markup "standard" that doesn't have a one-to-one translation to XHTML/HTML is a Bad Idea.
So basically, we can never have a markup standard that does anything else than exactly what XHTML and HTML can do -- and that means, never any other standard.
4. The IA-64 based versions of the 3000 series will include the Linux kernel along an some IRIX compatibility layer.
I wonder how this can be possible -- it sounds like something marketing pushed through because "Linux is very hip". Who the f. would be dumb enough to run Linux/Intel on one of these things?
Linux scales well to what, 4 processors?
Of course, this is my uninformed impression. But IMO Linux is for PCs -- and there's a helluva big difference between Linux & Cox and the people at SGI, and certainly also between the software they write.
> Crays are getting old nowadays anyway. Well, old Crays, obviously. New Crays will still kill you.