The thing runs hotter, what's the big deal? I remember fixing an old IBM XT that was sitting in my buddy's auto shop for almost 15 years. All of the circuitry was covered in oily grime and the 8088 was barely warm to the touch.
The Sun Enterprise 3000's at work have massive fans surrounding the processors, does that mean that the Sparc is a lousy technology???
Technology changes, as time goes on Intel's engineers will run similar chips at lower temps. If heat is that important to you for whatever reason, wait until then to buy the thing.
You would think that a vendor like HP would be willing to provide support to a company that just spent 20k on printers and consumables... No such luck.
One of our 8100N's refused to feed paper from the optional large (expensive) paper tray. I called HP and spoke to three reps, all of which thought that "you have a software problem, what's Solaris"
After about days wasted we discovered that the paper guides were broken and just sent the thing back to the vendor. I will never make the mistake of buying an HP product again.
IBM is and was much more than a 'hardware' company. IBM is a multi-tentacled monster with dozens of hardware and software platforms.
The reason why IBM screwed up dominating the PC market is a lack of focus. What is a better way of making money, a $5,000 pc or a $5,000,000 mainframe (plus lucrative consulting and service contracts)
When Compaq came out with the first 386, IBM lost it's dominating role in the PC marketplace. Once the dominance was lost, Microsoft could push its licensing agreements to all of the clonemakers.
Microsoft is insulated from it's mistakes by the massive number of Microsoft Windows and MS Office installations. Users are not eager to learn about a new operating enviroment and IT folks do not have the time to migrate.
The whole compatibility issue helps MS immensely. In 1991, why would I want to switch is OS/2 to run MS Windows 3.1 Applications? Why buy another OS to do things that you already do!?!
Today we are seeing the first true threat to Microsoft in several years. The ease of pirating MS Windows and Office in this age of cable modems hurts MS on the home front. The rising popularity of licensing fee free Linux hurts MS on the business side. Even Microsoft salespeople will have trouble selling MS Datacenter Server with 10,000 licenses as Linux and other unixes move into the enterprise market.
This may reflect more on the crummy cs program that I was in, but nobody in my classes liked programming with emacs/vi and g++.
We were forced to use a buggy version of ddd, despite the fact that the version that the school used did not work on the public workstation!
IDE's are a good thing for people who are new to an enviroment, especially students. I used an old version of Delphi to automate a couple of menial tasks for our operators, and had a working program written in about 5 hours. If i was using a new language to develop something with just a text editor, I would not have had the time to develop the gui or add extra functionality.
In my view, if it saves my time (and works), it is good. IDE's are good. I could care less about ideology.
You are right. Slashdot is a forum for people for 'advocates' of various causes. There's nothing wrong with that, i read slashdot every day. But the 'technical' information in 85% of the posts is garbage.
Intel has consistently delivered great chips AND shareholder value for many, many years. Very few, if any, semiconductor companies can say that. I you bought $10,000 of AMD stock in 1982 you would probaly have about $400,000. $10,000 of INTC would be worth a few mil.
That is the ultimate measure of success for any company.
How about building sudo into Linux distributions and creating a special "installation" user? Operations on the RPM database could be done through sudo, or it could be owned by "install"
That would make it easier for newbies, and bring an added level of security to multiuser Linux boxes.
Amen brother.
and btw Gore had no idea that it was the daughter of one of the head Generals in the communist chinese army that was giving him all that money...
Political office and ice tea don't mix
I have no karma and could give two shits about losing whats left, so here I go.
Number One - You people do not follow in Ghandi's footsteps. Ghandi was a man of peace, protesting the exploitation of his land and people. You and your ilk are naredowells, protesting the existence of a society that you cannot belong to, since you see yourselves as better.
At the university that I graduated from this May, a bunch of wannabe Vietnam war protesters decided to seize the administration building, to protest the possibility that University athletic apparel was made in asian sweatshops. (They are in fact manufactured outside of Boston, Mass)
Before the protest even started, the local media was called in to witness the campus police dept. opressing the 'peaceful' protesters. A few minutes later they began to throw things out of the University President's window, hitting several people on the walkway below who getting out of class. My girlfriend was hit on the shoulder with a heavy wooden drawer.
Several protesters decided to attack the four university policemen who had arrived at that point, and several shills in the crowd started screaming that the police were beating innocent people.
It is clear to me that a core of professional protesters go to universities and recruit vulnerable students into this bizarre counter-society movement. They take people who are concered about the enviroment, conspiracy theorists, vegans, gay and lesbian groups and people who are angry at society and turn them into violent zealots. They are trained to use the media to shape the way the general public see their 'protests' and how to inflame the police.
And for what? What does creating a riot in front of a political convention accomplish? That the convention is a staged show? Guess what, everyone knows that. What is the ultimate goal. What are these people really practicing for?
The real scary thing about these people is the lack of an open purpose. In the sixties, the goal of protests was very clear: end vietnam, civil rights, anti-nuclear holocost. These protestors shroud their protest with vague notions of corrupt society and reveal their complete ignorance of economics.
Those of you who read history will see parallels between the methods of Lenin in Russia and these 'peaceful protesters' Anyone whose only forms of political expression are emotion and deceit, and whose methodology revolves around creating riot and mayhem behind a veneer of peaceful protest is a devisive force that needs to be confronted and stamped out.
Pinching pennies on hardware is a bad idea. Linux does not yet support raw disk volumes, and a lack of enterprise class volume managers like veritas make Linux a poor choice for enterprise DB's. In our shop, we use Linux or OpenBSD for everywhere, even for a few smaller databases.
Spend the bucks on Sun boxes, you will not regret it, especially when disaster strikes and you company is losing $6000 / hour.
As far as RAID goes, use RAID 0+1, if you cannot afford a few extra disks, you shouldn't be doing this in the first place. Basically, using RAID 5 for databases is very dumb. With RAID 5, controller failures can slowly corrupt your data before anybody notices. If you want to learn why RAID 5 and databases do not mix, go to www.iiug.org and search comp.databases.informix for "Art Kagel" and "RAID", you will find several excellent explanations about why RAID 5 is bad; Art is a guru and explains this topic very well.
If your goal is increased performance for read operations, try database mirroring. I am an Informix DBA, and we have the database engine mirror data chunks on our decision support databases. When the database takes care of mirroring, some read ops are offloaded to the mirror chunk. I do not know whether or not Sybase supports this, but it would not hurt to check.
The reason that gas prices are as high as they are today is government. I live in New York, where gas is now ~ $1.60 per gallon. Diesel has been ~$1.40 per gallon since February. Why is that? The reason is simple. State regulators across the US now require over 14 different mixtures of gas to be produced. California, New York, and Massachusetts use one type of gas; the midwest puts corn alcohol in theirs; and the Feds have recently mandated the addition of cancer-causing MTBE into our gasoline. The result? Large oil refineries (there are only a couple dozen) are forced to run multiple, smaller production batches. The pricing on these smaller batches is far more susceptible to market flucuations; because retooling and setup time for an oil refinery is quite expensive and time-consuming. Instead of blaming the arabs, or greedy oil companies, point your finger at the various governments of the USA. The state of new york and the local county make like $0.55 on a gallon of gas, the feds make $0.22. The store makes $0.16 and the oil co $0.25. Electric cars are a joke, instead of burning gas in a car, you are burning coal or lp gas in an overloaded power plant (since nobody wants new plants near their house), losing 25% of the energy in the power lines and pumping them into expensive, heavy and dangerous batteries. We should be focused on improving our current engines and developing things like fuel cells and hydrogen engines. And when the oil actually starts running out, we will. Needed to rant.
You may find it interesting that Robert Moses, the builder of most of the bridges and expressways in New York City as well as most of the various Parkways and Expressways in Long Island had the highway overpasses designed specifically to not allow busses to pass. Moses did not want minorities, particularly Puerto Ricans to defile Jones Beach or move into Nassau or Suffolk county on Long Island. The Long Island and Van Wych Expressways were originally designed to accomodate a light rail line in the median; Moses lobbied heavily to make the median too narrow. If this topic is of interest to anybody, I suggest reading "The Power Broker" by Robert A. Caro. It is a 1500 tale of one powerful man's transition from youthful idealist to bitter, corrupt political hack.
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IBM is one of the few vendors that have played with the Crusoe. Maybe they decided that they are going to have a tough time selling a slow as heck machine with good power consumption right next to a P3/800 with crummy battery life.
Instead of swallowing the hype about Crusoe and deciding that because Linus is involved, Transmeta is great, think of what emulation does to performance. Slow it down.
And, even if the Crusoe is nice and fast, there is no way some rinky dink company like Transmeta can manufacture enough CPU's to go head to head with Intel. Intel, love 'em or hate 'em, has the best, most efficient manufacturing operations in the world and they are having difficulty shipping enough chips.
I am concerned with the societal implications of the newly discovered secrets of fire...
Instead of wrapping their children in mammoth furs, some parents will use fire to heat their cave...
As an ultraparanoid geek, I feel that the advantages of not freezing to death does not outweigh the potential loss of privacy. Other people may start lighting sticks and walking around in the dark, violating the privacy of my cave at night.
... This may sound silly, but so does opposing medical advancement.
I agree with the original poster, the anti-copyright zealots on./ are making so much noise that they are not thinking about what they are saying.
Whether or not you agree, pirating copyrighted music or video games or whatever is illegal. If you disagree, tell it to the judge. If you hold the law in contempt by directing people to violate the law, you are guilty of conspiracy.
If I stood on a street corner, 'linking' customers to where they could by crack, I would be committing a crime. If you encouraged 18 year old not to register for selective service, you would be committing a crime.
The majority of the posters here are in some sort of fantasyland where all information or art is under the GNU Public license. I have read many, many posts in past weeks describing the evils of RIAA, Microsoft, etc and how the concepts of patents and copywrights are flawed.
I agree with most of these points, too. However, the reason why the copyright law has been perverted into a tool of monopolistic corporations is that those companies are the only ones who give a damn.
The vast majority of 18-35 year olds, male and female do not give a shit about the political process, much less vote. The reason why every day the courts and goverment chip away at our rights every day is that nobody notices. Everybody here complains about how their mp3's are being taken away. Guess what? NOBODY who puts judges and politicians in office knows what an mp3 is!
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Sparc's do not run on "custom hardware", whatever that is. Sun and several clonemakers manufacture thousands of workstations and servers every year.
That is like saying a Pentium 2/400 is running on a 'custom-made' BX motherboard.
As far as Apple is concerned, G3's are designed with a completely different philosophy, with it's own strengths and weaknesses.
The thing runs hotter, what's the big deal? I remember fixing an old IBM XT that was sitting in my buddy's auto shop for almost 15 years. All of the circuitry was covered in oily grime and the 8088 was barely warm to the touch. The Sun Enterprise 3000's at work have massive fans surrounding the processors, does that mean that the Sparc is a lousy technology??? Technology changes, as time goes on Intel's engineers will run similar chips at lower temps. If heat is that important to you for whatever reason, wait until then to buy the thing.
You would think that a vendor like HP would be willing to provide support to a company that just spent 20k on printers and consumables... No such luck.
One of our 8100N's refused to feed paper from the optional large (expensive) paper tray. I called HP and spoke to three reps, all of which thought that "you have a software problem, what's Solaris"
After about days wasted we discovered that the paper guides were broken and just sent the thing back to the vendor. I will never make the mistake of buying an HP product again.
Perhaps they do not integrate Windows with Unix.
There are situations (cd-press operations especially) where isolating a system from the rest of the company can be an advantage.
You forgot to mention how a Beowulf cluster factors into the scheme of things.
Why don't you go riot in the streets to get your misinformed crackpot beliefs out?
I love it when rich punks scream about the horrors of capitalism... Then run to their capitalist parents for cash...
Please get a clue before you post.
The Kursk was an Oscar II class SSGN. It carried a couple dozen conventional crusie missiles. It was not a ballistic missle submarine.
IBM is and was much more than a 'hardware' company. IBM is a multi-tentacled monster with dozens of hardware and software platforms.
The reason why IBM screwed up dominating the PC market is a lack of focus. What is a better way of making money, a $5,000 pc or a $5,000,000 mainframe (plus lucrative consulting and service contracts)
When Compaq came out with the first 386, IBM lost it's dominating role in the PC marketplace. Once the dominance was lost, Microsoft could push its licensing agreements to all of the clonemakers.
Microsoft is insulated from it's mistakes by the massive number of Microsoft Windows and MS Office installations. Users are not eager to learn about a new operating enviroment and IT folks do not have the time to migrate.
The whole compatibility issue helps MS immensely. In 1991, why would I want to switch is OS/2 to run MS Windows 3.1 Applications? Why buy another OS to do things that you already do!?!
Today we are seeing the first true threat to Microsoft in several years. The ease of pirating MS Windows and Office in this age of cable modems hurts MS on the home front. The rising popularity of licensing fee free Linux hurts MS on the business side. Even Microsoft salespeople will have trouble selling MS Datacenter Server with 10,000 licenses as Linux and other unixes move into the enterprise market.
This may reflect more on the crummy cs program that I was in, but nobody in my classes liked programming with emacs/vi and g++.
We were forced to use a buggy version of ddd, despite the fact that the version that the school used did not work on the public workstation!
IDE's are a good thing for people who are new to an enviroment, especially students. I used an old version of Delphi to automate a couple of menial tasks for our operators, and had a working program written in about 5 hours. If i was using a new language to develop something with just a text editor, I would not have had the time to develop the gui or add extra functionality.
In my view, if it saves my time (and works), it is good. IDE's are good. I could care less about ideology.
You are right. Slashdot is a forum for people for 'advocates' of various causes. There's nothing wrong with that, i read slashdot every day. But the 'technical' information in 85% of the posts is garbage.
Intel has consistently delivered great chips AND shareholder value for many, many years. Very few, if any, semiconductor companies can say that. I you bought $10,000 of AMD stock in 1982 you would probaly have about $400,000. $10,000 of INTC would be worth a few mil.
That is the ultimate measure of success for any company.
Its called a publicity stunt...
HP calc beowulf cluster... you could play quake while in discrete math!
How about building sudo into Linux distributions and creating a special "installation" user? Operations on the RPM database could be done through sudo, or it could be owned by "install" That would make it easier for newbies, and bring an added level of security to multiuser Linux boxes.
Amen brother. and btw Gore had no idea that it was the daughter of one of the head Generals in the communist chinese army that was giving him all that money... Political office and ice tea don't mix
I have no karma and could give two shits about losing whats left, so here I go.
Number One - You people do not follow in Ghandi's footsteps. Ghandi was a man of peace, protesting the exploitation of his land and people. You and your ilk are naredowells, protesting the existence of a society that you cannot belong to, since you see yourselves as better.
At the university that I graduated from this May, a bunch of wannabe Vietnam war protesters decided to seize the administration building, to protest the possibility that University athletic apparel was made in asian sweatshops. (They are in fact manufactured outside of Boston, Mass)
Before the protest even started, the local media was called in to witness the campus police dept. opressing the 'peaceful' protesters. A few minutes later they began to throw things out of the University President's window, hitting several people on the walkway below who getting out of class. My girlfriend was hit on the shoulder with a heavy wooden drawer.
Several protesters decided to attack the four university policemen who had arrived at that point, and several shills in the crowd started screaming that the police were beating innocent people.
It is clear to me that a core of professional protesters go to universities and recruit vulnerable students into this bizarre counter-society movement. They take people who are concered about the enviroment, conspiracy theorists, vegans, gay and lesbian groups and people who are angry at society and turn them into violent zealots. They are trained to use the media to shape the way the general public see their 'protests' and how to inflame the police.
And for what? What does creating a riot in front of a political convention accomplish? That the convention is a staged show? Guess what, everyone knows that. What is the ultimate goal. What are these people really practicing for?
The real scary thing about these people is the lack of an open purpose. In the sixties, the goal of protests was very clear: end vietnam, civil rights, anti-nuclear holocost. These protestors shroud their protest with vague notions of corrupt society and reveal their complete ignorance of economics.
Those of you who read history will see parallels between the methods of Lenin in Russia and these 'peaceful protesters' Anyone whose only forms of political expression are emotion and deceit, and whose methodology revolves around creating riot and mayhem behind a veneer of peaceful protest is a devisive force that needs to be confronted and stamped out.
And it is a damn shame that Star Wars is what everyone will remember him by.
Sir Alec's performance in Lawrence of Arabia was inspiring. Star Wars cannot compare to that film.
Alec really captured the essense of the british colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Actors of Alec's quality are a rare commodity, and the world will miss him.
Pinching pennies on hardware is a bad idea. Linux does not yet support raw disk volumes, and a lack of enterprise class volume managers like veritas make Linux a poor choice for enterprise DB's. In our shop, we use Linux or OpenBSD for everywhere, even for a few smaller databases.
Spend the bucks on Sun boxes, you will not regret it, especially when disaster strikes and you company is losing $6000 / hour.
As far as RAID goes, use RAID 0+1, if you cannot afford a few extra disks, you shouldn't be doing this in the first place. Basically, using RAID 5 for databases is very dumb. With RAID 5, controller failures can slowly corrupt your data before anybody notices. If you want to learn why RAID 5 and databases do not mix, go to www.iiug.org and search comp.databases.informix for "Art Kagel" and "RAID", you will find several excellent explanations about why RAID 5 is bad; Art is a guru and explains this topic very well.
If your goal is increased performance for read operations, try database mirroring. I am an Informix DBA, and we have the database engine mirror data chunks on our decision support databases. When the database takes care of mirroring, some read ops are offloaded to the mirror chunk. I do not know whether or not Sybase supports this, but it would not hurt to check.
The reason that gas prices are as high as they are today is government. I live in New York, where gas is now ~ $1.60 per gallon. Diesel has been ~$1.40 per gallon since February. Why is that? The reason is simple. State regulators across the US now require over 14 different mixtures of gas to be produced. California, New York, and Massachusetts use one type of gas; the midwest puts corn alcohol in theirs; and the Feds have recently mandated the addition of cancer-causing MTBE into our gasoline. The result? Large oil refineries (there are only a couple dozen) are forced to run multiple, smaller production batches. The pricing on these smaller batches is far more susceptible to market flucuations; because retooling and setup time for an oil refinery is quite expensive and time-consuming. Instead of blaming the arabs, or greedy oil companies, point your finger at the various governments of the USA. The state of new york and the local county make like $0.55 on a gallon of gas, the feds make $0.22. The store makes $0.16 and the oil co $0.25. Electric cars are a joke, instead of burning gas in a car, you are burning coal or lp gas in an overloaded power plant (since nobody wants new plants near their house), losing 25% of the energy in the power lines and pumping them into expensive, heavy and dangerous batteries. We should be focused on improving our current engines and developing things like fuel cells and hydrogen engines. And when the oil actually starts running out, we will. Needed to rant.
That would be great, except for one thing, it's BS.
Office 2k does not require online registration.
You may find it interesting that Robert Moses, the builder of most of the bridges and expressways in New York City as well as most of the various Parkways and Expressways in Long Island had the highway overpasses designed specifically to not allow busses to pass.
Moses did not want minorities, particularly Puerto Ricans to defile Jones Beach or move into Nassau or Suffolk county on Long Island.
The Long Island and Van Wych Expressways were originally designed to accomodate a light rail line in the median; Moses lobbied heavily to make the median too narrow.
If this topic is of interest to anybody, I suggest reading "The Power Broker" by Robert A. Caro. It is a 1500 tale of one powerful man's transition from youthful idealist to bitter, corrupt political hack.
IBM is one of the few vendors that have played with the Crusoe. Maybe they decided that they are going to have a tough time selling a slow as heck machine with good power consumption right next to a P3/800 with crummy battery life.
Instead of swallowing the hype about Crusoe and deciding that because Linus is involved, Transmeta is great, think of what emulation does to performance. Slow it down.
And, even if the Crusoe is nice and fast, there is no way some rinky dink company like Transmeta can manufacture enough CPU's to go head to head with Intel. Intel, love 'em or hate 'em, has the best, most efficient manufacturing operations in the world and they are having difficulty shipping enough chips.
The reason that nobody (nobody as in very few people) uses PGP is that it is a pain in the rear end to use and unnecessary.
If somebody feels the need to read messages to my buddies about where we are drinking next weekend, good for them.
I am concerned with the societal implications of the newly discovered secrets of fire...
Instead of wrapping their children in mammoth furs, some parents will use fire to heat their cave...
As an ultraparanoid geek, I feel that the advantages of not freezing to death does not outweigh the potential loss of privacy. Other people may start lighting sticks and walking around in the dark, violating the privacy of my cave at night.
... This may sound silly, but so does opposing medical advancement.
I agree with the original poster, the anti-copyright zealots on ./ are making so much noise that they are not thinking about what they are saying.
Whether or not you agree, pirating copyrighted music or video games or whatever is illegal. If you disagree, tell it to the judge. If you hold the law in contempt by directing people to violate the law, you are guilty of conspiracy.
If I stood on a street corner, 'linking' customers to where they could by crack, I would be committing a crime. If you encouraged 18 year old not to register for selective service, you would be committing a crime.
The majority of the posters here are in some sort of fantasyland where all information or art is under the GNU Public license. I have read many, many posts in past weeks describing the evils of RIAA, Microsoft, etc and how the concepts of patents and copywrights are flawed.
I agree with most of these points, too. However, the reason why the copyright law has been perverted into a tool of monopolistic corporations is that those companies are the only ones who give a damn.
The vast majority of 18-35 year olds, male and female do not give a shit about the political process, much less vote. The reason why every day the courts and goverment chip away at our rights every day is that nobody notices. Everybody here complains about how their mp3's are being taken away. Guess what? NOBODY who puts judges and politicians in office knows what an mp3 is!
that ./ is also involved in the secret conspiracy to take our guns and our drugs.
Doubleclick is part of the alien takeover.