Please, anyone who would be interested in these drivers for PPC go here and let them know. If enough of us do so, they will quickly realize that supporting linux isn't only about x86.
Usually an ISP doesn't actually close the account when billing issues arise. The logic behind this, would be so that people won't lose any important e-mails. They simply pay their overdue bill, and then have access to all the e-mails they received. I think this is a rinkle they never really expected.
However, having worked for an ISP before, I believe more people would be angry if you suddenly started bouncing all their e-mail if their credit card expired. It is more courteous to just prevent them from accessing it, until they pay up.
I purchased the SL350 power supply, from their solution series.
For a little less money than the True series, it has dual temperature sensitive fans, with plenty of power for a fully loaded system, yet runs quietly.
I payed about $50 for it from googlegear, and I have been very impressed with the noise/heat/performance.
Competition really is a good thing. By competing with eachother they will remain agile and efficient, so they have a better chance against other common adversaries. In the end, competition almost always benefits the end users. They should be encouraged to compete fiercely among eachother.
Compared to some other companies *cough*NVIDIA*cough* ATI has been very helpful to linux developers. While NVIDIA only releases binaries, and only for x86, ATI actually provides developers with technical specs to aid development on other platforms (PowerPC anyone?).
From ATI's website:
While ATI does not develop Linux or XFree86 drivers for its graphics cards in house, we actively support 3rd party developers that provide driver support for the majority of ATI products with development kits and information.
Radeon drivers for Linux are in development. XFree86 and the DRI Open Source Project offer Radeon 2D support with their latest released source code. 3D support is scheduled to be released Q1 2001.
I really think CodeWeaver has a great place in the open source community. They are creating proprietary code, but in doing so, they are giving many windows users the option to switch to linux, by making available their favorite apps. Just because they offer a proprietary solutions, doesn't mean they aren't supporting the open source community.
The speed of this product really isn't the selling point, at least not now. Most 7200 ATA drives can't sustain much more than 40MB/s, let alone 150MB/s. The current ATA 133 is already overkill. The selling points are the small cable, the decreased voltage (signal voltage decreased from 5v to 150mv), the length increase, the future posibilities, and the adoption of much more popular serial design (similar to firewire and usb).
What about the person who owns the rights to the movie, he or she that wrote it, what about the MPAA, the customer that is willing to pay for the edited rental, or how about the studio, or the television stations who purchase rights, etc... Nothing is simple with that many players. Everyong has different vested interests.
With chip fabrication prices dropping drasticaly, and with OS complexity increasing exponentially it is becoming much more common to design hardware around software.
The terraflop statistic is a little hard for me to swallow.
The NERSC IBM SP RS/600 (the fifth most powerful computer in the world, according to top500.org) located in Berkeley consists of 2,944 processors. The processors are distributed among 184 compute nodes with 16 processors per node. Each node has a common pool of between 16 and 64 GBytes of memory.
This machine is a 3 terraflop system. Although, I guess three PS3's could do the same...
It seems to me that in this age of exploiting customer information, Nielsen has always gone out of their way to respect private information, through opt-in programs, and anonymizing data. As a marketing information company this is very unnusual, and should Nielsen should be commended for this.
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Please, anyone who would be interested in these drivers for PPC go here and let them know. If enough of us do so, they will quickly realize that supporting linux isn't only about x86.
Yea, and I am sure cruising slashdot on Friday nights helps with the getting laid part...
Me? What am I doing... I'm just, well... I'm... err, ummm.... fuck
Usually an ISP doesn't actually close the account when billing issues arise. The logic behind this, would be so that people won't lose any important e-mails. They simply pay their overdue bill, and then have access to all the e-mails they received. I think this is a rinkle they never really expected.
However, having worked for an ISP before, I believe more people would be angry if you suddenly started bouncing all their e-mail if their credit card expired. It is more courteous to just prevent them from accessing it, until they pay up.
I ran the Scimark 2.0 Java benchmarks on the same machine, running Yellow Dog Linux, kernel 2.4.19, versus Mac OS 10.2.
Here are my results
Yellow Dog 2.3: SciMark 2.0a
Composite Score: 139.92947174097748
FFT (1024): 123.98639890992068
SOR (100x100): 166.2888365390105
Monte Carlo : 11.87347214947242
Sparse matmult (N=1000, nz=5000): 119.76608441786847
LU (100x100): 277.7325666886154
java.vendor: IBM Corporation
java.version: 1.3.1
os.arch: ppc
os.name: Linux
os.version: 2.4.20-0.7bsmp
MacOS 10.2: SciMark 2.0a
Composite Score: 65.55278911110278
FFT (1024): 45.766180267285044
SOR (100x100): 148.7766358092264
Monte Carlo : 8.128496082717385
Sparse matmult (N=1000, nz=5000): 43.78407287809933
LU (100x100): 81.30856051818576
java.vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.
java.version: 1.3.1
os.arch: ppc
os.name: Mac OS X
os.version: 10.2
Machine:
processor : 0
cpu : 7455, altivec supported
clock : 999MHz
revision : 2.1 (pvr 8001 0201)
processor : 1
cpu : 7455, altivec supported
clock : 999MHz
revision : 2.1 (pvr 8001 0201)
bogomips : 999.42
total bogomips : 1998.84
machine : PowerMac3,6
motherboard : PowerMac3,6 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as : 129 (PowerMac G4 Windtunnel)
pmac flags : 00000000
L2 cache : 256K unified
memory : 256MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld
Mem: 253776
Damn, I hate replying to my own post... Ok, ok, so he did say without electrons... But he meant without electronics... =)
He says without electronics, not without electrons... Last time I checked a molecule of water had, oh say about 10 electrons in it...
By installing this software, you acknowledge that Company Inc(r) will gain ownership of your 1st born child.
Terrible mental image of Steve Balmer wearing a sweat soaked butterfly suit and roller blades, yelling "Developers! Developers!"....
*cringe*
I only wish I would have thought of starting a company to sell outdated versions of free software for $99 and calling it 'enhanced'
Some people take all the good ideas.
I also recently purchased an antec power supply.
I purchased the SL350 power supply, from their solution series.
For a little less money than the True series, it has dual temperature sensitive fans, with plenty of power for a fully loaded system, yet runs quietly.
I payed about $50 for it from googlegear, and I have been very impressed with the noise/heat/performance.
And here I was thinking that all those X10 popup adds were obnoxious and without a purpose.
Competition really is a good thing. By competing with eachother they will remain agile and efficient, so they have a better chance against other common adversaries. In the end, competition almost always benefits the end users. They should be encouraged to compete fiercely among eachother.
I would say that the moment you start asking a geek forum for law advice, you probably need a lawyer.
Compared to some other companies *cough*NVIDIA*cough* ATI has been very helpful to linux developers. While NVIDIA only releases binaries, and only for x86, ATI actually provides developers with technical specs to aid development on other platforms (PowerPC anyone?).
From ATI's website:
While ATI does not develop Linux or XFree86 drivers for its graphics cards in house, we actively support 3rd party developers that provide driver support for the majority of ATI products with development kits and information.
Radeon drivers for Linux are in development. XFree86 and the DRI Open Source Project offer Radeon 2D support with their latest released source code. 3D support is scheduled to be released Q1 2001.
I really think CodeWeaver has a great place in the open source community. They are creating proprietary code, but in doing so, they are giving many windows users the option to switch to linux, by making available their favorite apps. Just because they offer a proprietary solutions, doesn't mean they aren't supporting the open source community.
The speed of this product really isn't the selling point, at least not now. Most 7200 ATA drives can't sustain much more than 40MB/s, let alone 150MB/s. The current ATA 133 is already overkill. The selling points are the small cable, the decreased voltage (signal voltage decreased from 5v to 150mv), the length increase, the future posibilities, and the adoption of much more popular serial design (similar to firewire and usb).
I can only imagine what for(;;); sounds like...
AAARGGHH... MAKE IT STOP!!!!
What about the person who owns the rights to the movie, he or she that wrote it, what about the MPAA, the customer that is willing to pay for the edited rental, or how about the studio, or the television stations who purchase rights, etc... Nothing is simple with that many players. Everyong has different vested interests.
Don't mean to burst your bubble, but I imagine Sony marketing is chasing bigger fish than the fickle Slashdot crowd.
With chip fabrication prices dropping drasticaly, and with OS complexity increasing exponentially it is becoming much more common to design hardware around software.
The terraflop statistic is a little hard for me to swallow.
The NERSC IBM SP RS/600 (the fifth most powerful computer in the world, according to top500.org) located in Berkeley consists of 2,944 processors. The processors are distributed among 184 compute nodes with 16 processors per node. Each node has a common pool of between 16 and 64 GBytes of memory.
This machine is a 3 terraflop system. Although, I guess three PS3's could do the same...
It seems to me that in this age of exploiting customer information, Nielsen has always gone out of their way to respect private information, through opt-in programs, and anonymizing data. As a marketing information company this is very unnusual, and should Nielsen should be commended for this.
Yo mamma so big that... n/m
What's all that aboot? It's alright to be canadian eh...