MacOSX put on a good show, but losing to linux by 10% is pretty substantial. Most like having aqua running caused most of that deficite.
Linux has far more people working on it, and yes, even more people working on the PowerPC architecture than apple, this is a characteristic of opensource, so I am impressed by the performance of OSX.
I have used 15 XServes and they are a really good peice of hardware, and with OSX they are EXTREMELY easy to configure. In my opinion, for the ease of use/configuration and the imediate ability to integrate into Windows netoworks with ease, the 10% loss to linux is pretty good.
I recommend XServe/OSX systems to many of my clients because they are more cost effective to set up than linux or windows machines in many circumstances. Linux wins in performance and ability to run on cheap commodity hardware, but losses on the human factor.
Someone needs to set it up, and that person is most likely pretty expensive. I charge $55 an hour to schools(which is an amazing deal) out of the goodness of my heart, and your looking at a day of setting up a set of linux machines, installing the OS, configureing the software etc. $550+ in labor + $1400+/ machine in hardware(to compete with an Xserve)about $2000/machine. with XServer/OSX systems, you open the box and spend about 45 minutes setting the thing up, and its done.about $3100/machine. not bad for a fast/reliable server.
I am looking forward to seeing/getting one of the new Palms with OS6. Handspring has plans for an XScale 600Mhz machine/ATI imageon and 128MB memory for launch with PalmOS6. I currently have a Toshivae740 which i like but WinCE is not my idea of a efficient OS, typical microsoft software, tries to be everything to everyone right out of the box. I like the idea of a "modular" palm6 so i can kill all the crap i dont like without the OS dieing. example=WinCE. If you delete the PocketExcel folder, the damn thing wont boot!
Palm will most likely have optimized builds for different chips used. the new ARM should have its own build, the old ARM, XScale, etc.
i have heard rumors that palm6 will also be using by sony in some upcomming set top boxes with 'tivo'like features, and with the BeOS technology we should get a nice smooth and quick interface with great media abilities.
id like to point out that though a hard drive cost more $/Gb than tape, most people do not develope a library of old daily backups, but rather rotate through the same tapes over and over in a weekly to monthly schedule. Doing this make hard drives cheaper per Gb as the longevity of hard drives significantly reduces the costs versus tapes.
How many times can you write to a tape before it needs replaced? before the media is stretch so bad it cant reliably hold data?
hard drives can be written to for many many years when used as a backup device in a hotswap bay.
DVD and DVD-RAM on the other hand, have a limited number of writes and/or rewrites and mean buying more media on a regular basis. The media is more spendy than tapes but does have the low random access times which is nice.
FYI, i run a computer service center and i have been recommending hot swap drives for backup to all my customers.
20Gb drives are resonably cheap and last for the forseable lifetime of the machine being backed up. they are just as convinient as tapes in portability but more reliable. In schools i typically have the super or principal take the backup home with him/her OR lock in in the firesafe.
dont get an Itanium, by the time you get the machine, and have it set up and running, your $2000+ proc will be out dated. Itaniums are very fast per clock, but they are only ~1Ghz.
i would suggest you wait til hammer, not necessarily to buy one but the market will react to it, meaning the price will drop on most other compeeting chips. AND the Itanic may just be a bit faster.
when Hammer comes out, you should be able to get 4way Hammer systems running @ 2+Ghz(3200+ rating) and Hammer is a much better SMP chip than most others you may know of.
i dissagree, microsoft has really done some stupid things rescently and people are willing to jump ship if someone offers a good product with the speed, or perception of speed, to compete with windows.
if apple could get their performance up, and not charge $3000 for the priveledge of having a fast machine(dual 1.25Ghz G4) then they would be a very powerful competator in the desktop market.
steve jobs is a smart guy, he is planning something big, and he has a stratagy. Bill Gates is a smart guy too, but he is not in charge of Microsoft, and Microsoft has grow too large to make quick changes to counter apple, like they did in the past.
apple need to do two things, get a faster platform, and make their machines an attanable item to the vast majority of PC users.
my arguement to this post is that adobe already has a good amount of x86 development under their belts as well as they are currently porting photoshop to cocoa. This would not be a very hard thing for adobe to do.
i belive, that if each consumer, the end consumer, were deleteing these scenes then it would be fair use. Too not watch certain parts of a movie because they may be offinsive is certainly fair use.
i dont believe that a person or company may alter a movie and then sell it, essentially makeing profit off of someone elses merchandise. This is not fair use, this is theft.
the only way around that i can see, is selling the end consumer a box that can skip scenes, and then selling them some sort of program or key that skips scenes preselected by the 'clean films' company. then you would certainly be selling them a service and NOT selling them altered versions of a film.
is this not evolution in language? how else can a language advance? this makes our language shorter and more efficient over time, just like the gradual change from old english to modern english. things that do not work well fall aside like fads, and things that work well are integrated into the standard. Compare language to the linux kernel, good stuff gets integrated into the official, and the bad stuff is just a patch that will fade out of knowledge in time.
secondly, people are visualy learners for the most part. if you read a word spelled correctly 1000 times, you know that is how it is to be spelled, even if you were never taught how to spell it. I read "anonymous" many many times per day, and i know how to spell it, but i have never been taught to spell it. spell chackers dont dumb down kids, they are just a different method of teaching them.
calculators on the other hand. they dont show the process by which they reach their answer, they just spit it out. children should be taught to do fundamental math in school, and taught to be able to do simple mathimatical problems quickly in thier head. calculators should be used when the limits on the common persons memory skills are the barrier. most people cant remember more than 5 or 6 numbers at a time, so if you need to add 25 numbers, you need paper or a calculator, or when the numbers are beyond most people intelegence to calculate, 2.87x964.3 for example, try that in your head.
also remember, the human mind is an extremely powerful computer, capable of doing complete mathimatics very quickly, BUT, the interface with the mind needs to be taught to exploit that power.
get: Arena Indy 2600/fibre channel 16 Bay IDE Rackmount -(16 IDE drives with a SCSI 160/fiber channel interface, 512MB PC133RAM)2+ GB/s transfer rate. 16xWD 8mb SE 160GB 7200 RPM IDE Drives
this gives 1.7Terabytes per enclosure.
use a MSI dual athlon motherboard -(5PCI slots, dual 2000+ athlonXP, 4Gb PC2100DDR)
put four SCSI160/fibre channel controllers in with two channels per.
you need 24 enclosures, 6 per card, no problem running four loops of 6 enclosures.
enclosures: $8000 per x 24 = $192,000
drives $161 per x 384 = $62,000
fibre channel controllers and cables: ~$2000 per 4 x 2000 = $8000
server machine: ~$3000 (dual XP 2000+, 4GB ram, 40GB IDE drive for OS
gigabit network card: $300 (a good one)
$265,300 EVERYTHING x 2 for redundancy
$530,600
IF 2.5 series linux kernel supports it, you can run linux software RAID on the 24 enclosures and linux will see each enclosure as a single drive, but 2.4 series kernel has a 2Terabyte filesystem size limit.
otherwise, Windows2000 server, software RAID all 24 drives RAID 0(redundancy is handle per drive encluse, no server side redundancy is needed. I believe that NTFS and the windows kernel can handle more than 40Terabyte file system sizes.
two identicle servers mirror each other with either windows or linux clustering and fallover support.
you think that one Gigabyte network card is too little? how much PCI bandwidth is their available?:) ,
their would be a limit on the PCI bus in this situation but thier is no way around it, other than waiting on AMD Hammer OR getting an Itanium2 which has multiple PCI busses.
ok, so $530,600 plus $2000 is software, plus setup costs of say $5000, plus three racks @ $5000 per, A/C units $5000
it could be done for about $557,600, give or take about $10,000. and this is with awesome redundancy, RAID 5 underneath RAID 1
max transfer rates would not break about 512Mb/second(PCI 33Mhzx32bit=1056Mbs shared between the drive array and the gigabyte ethernet card, but seek and read/write speeds would be incredible.
yes, ill prob get my *** kicked for a 3 page long post, but it's worth it.
Netscape is just a proprietary wrap up of mozilla technology. everything in netscape can be installed into mozilla as an add-on such as the spell checker for instance.
the argurement that netscape may not be blocked while mozilla could be is bogus, thy both report the same renderer, and unless people at tartgetting sites AGAINST mozilla then it is very unlikely.
mozilla is better in my opionion because of the open nature of it, whereas netscape is a perversion of mozilla's open nature.
Plus mozilla icons are better:)
Mozilla as a platform is an interesting idea as well. Anyone here ran OEone? http://www.oeone.com
it runs on redhat 7.2 and is a nice little desktop environment to give linux a user friendly look. Check it out if your running redhat 7.1 or 7.2(not 7.3 yet) i like it, but im not a redhat fan so ill wait until it is available for other distros linux gentoo and Suse.
IF a movie is worth spending so much and risking so much, then isn't it WORTH the wait and the 7 bucks for a ticket and another 7 for popcorn and pop.
this is not an MP3. i like to hear an album before I buy it of coarse, i will download it and if i like it make the short trek over to CD Warehouse and get it, its the least i can do if its a good product. This does not transfer over to movies.
If you download the movie and trade it, you are going to reduce the cash that they make in the theater. Yes, Many will still go see it in the theater but it reduces the movie.
I downloaded starwars episode 2 about two weeks before it opened but i couldn't convince myself to watch it, and i will never download a pre-release movie again.
also, i have waited a long time for this series of movies, i will put my money down to see it, its worth it. the guys that made it deserve their fair share and by downling(stealing) the movie you are stealing directly from them. Their is no RIAA here, you are stealling from them. The studio that makes a film gets a BIG chunk of it and YOU ARE STEALING FROM THEM.
linux is not meant to try to replace machines such as the AS400s using just one ix86 machine.
the idea is, to set up redundant pairs of linux machines made to do one or a few tasks.
10 linux machines can offer great uptime via the use of clustering, mirroring and fallover support.
run a Database on one pair(2), the firewall, email, and DCHP, DNS, etc on another pair(4). the third pair for file serving to the local network and FTP(6), the fourth pair for the Web server(8), and the fifth pair for other various stuff, like samba(10).
OR
just run all services on one machine and do some clustering with fallover and round robin to access resources.
linux is very very good at this, and cheap. an AS400 is a single machine most likely, that requeres routing maintainance and equipment failure which means downtime. Their is not another machine to pick up the slack in most circumstances. AS400s are expensive to support compared to a linux system.
this sounds like another version of Steven King's 'The Stand', where a powerfull virus aka superflu, infects and kills most of the population and only a few survive, from that point on most if not all humans would be immune to the virus, similar virii, or even completely different virii that attack in the same way.
that is 6.3Mb, which equals 786K 1024*768 = 786432 pixels, at 8bit color, 8 bits are used per pixel, theirfor 1Byte/pixel. 786,432bytes per image, uncompressed, but then compression is used and may reduce the image to 1/2-3/4, so on the high end about 600Kilobytes.
not 600Kilobytes/frame, would in fact be 9.2MB/sec, but why would you update the whole screen?, of coarse the box would only update parts that had changed., realistically that resolution can be broadcast over a 56k connection because no more than 5% of the screen changes during most operations. even moving a window does not take too much bandwidth because the intelegent compression technology can "drift" parts of an image to a new position.
also, keep in mind that the console is 640x400x4bit. = 128K per uncompressed image, and if it scales well. then a 56k should be more than adequate as @32K(average ~56k connection speed) it would take at most 4 seconds to do a full page refresh, and like i said before, only very small parts are refreshed on a regular basis. each character should be about 10pixelsx6pixels@4bit. so 8bytes for a single letter?
LED lights are too dim. its hard to get enough in a small enough space to do much good, and you would require at least 75-150$ worth to get enough light to use the projector in daylight.
IF you had enough space, you could group 150-200 white LEDs in a tight slightly curved mount the same arc as a compressing lense , then focues that light onto a diffuser, spread the beam to a freznel the size of your LCD screen and hope for the best.
this would get expensive as a set of high quality lenses would be in the 100$ price range and 200 LEDs would run about $300, plus time.
though youre light source would be good for 150,000+ hours, and would just slowly degrade when the LEDs got old and failed.
and powering 200LED lights would not be too difficult, with the use of a PC power supply you can have 3.3/5/8.3/10/12/15.3/17/20.3/24 volt outputs , enough to drive many arrays of LED lights without any problem.
can i use old drives, in an old computer, and use some sort of "smartdrive" program to cache frequently accessed data to improve speed. right?
well..im not sure about the cacheing, but my celeron300a with 64MB of ram, work great. have four hd channels onboard, and 8 additional from the two highpoint controllers. i run 12 drives, in software RAID0+1, all of them are 40Gb WD 7200RPM drives and i have 240Gb avail. the speed of this array easily maxed out my network cards bandwidth(12MB/s vs. 50+MB/s) so i installed 3 3com NIC's, i still cannot match the 50+MB/s of the drives, but 36MB/s over a network is very good, since no one computer can pull this much through on one NIC anyway. and this is just a celeron300a with 64MB of RAM.
im running a pretty fast setup with minimal CPU, so slower drives should work well with a low pentium class machine..
ps - i have noticed that my network storage array is not as fast as id like as im running a file server for a my local network, with 20+ machines on most of the time, but you could put multiple machines around your network to simulate more speed. not as many poeple accessing the same resource will of coarse improve performance.
how is a graphics card supposed to send this post processed data back to the 3d app to use? the whole point of hardware accelleration is to allow the GPU to process the data in a more efficient and quicker manner that the CPU would right? so how is the GPU going to give this data back? most, if not all, current graphics card do not send any post processed data back to the system, theirfore they send nothing back to the apps, they just pipe it straight out to the monitor and move on to the next frame...
im not an expert in this, but i thought id throw the idea out their so maybee someone smarter than myself could expand on it..
im assuming that this apartment complex has rg6 coax for cable television??, and a central location so that the cable provider can administer it??
go for cable modems, place 48 port switch and a cable modem hub, run a DCHP server to make it easy and provide user/password access rights to the internet connection.
You can make a 10mb LAN to provide access AND the posibility of local file sharing.
Be has every reason to sue. i dont think ill have and agruements on that. some people do argue that it is a little too late.
i dont agree that it is too late. Be waited until the end, hoping it could survive against microsoft, so they deserve credit for not jumping on the "sue M$" bandwagon. Be went until the bitter end. Now its time to sue when their is NO doubt that M$'s negative monopolistic practices saturated the market with its products, and pushed out fair competition.
Everyone is tied to windows, even hard core linux people are tied to windows in some way. Windows is in every corner of the market, and not because it is THAT much better than everything else, because of illegal monopolistic actions to destroy fair competition. Be could have lived as a dual boot OS for specific tasks until it could grow into a complete OS(complete meaning OS AND a competitive program library)
One big arguement for Windows being a "superior product" that i have heard, is the "look how many leading apps are for windows only", BullSh*t!!, how do you think windows got all those leading apps, because the GUI was soo cool!?!, because of some technilogical advantage?!?, no! Monopolistic practices that nearly wiped out apple before, and rescently wiped out BeOS.
Be. Inc. , i hope you can present a good case, i hope you can bring some of the lost profits back to your shareholders, and maybee even salvage what is left of your business.
might one of these antenas be mounted in reverse, on a small DSS/primestar style dish to improve reception?
just place the end of the pringles can at the focal point of the dish? i would suspect a significant gain from this, but then again the whole point of a pringles can antena is to be cheap, how cheap can a person get a dish?
also, what do you suspect the range to be on one of these homebrew antenas? could it span 2 miles to a passive repeater, then two more miles? or would the repeater have to be and active 802.11b access point?
if i were to hack an 802.11b access point to install a pigtail for a homebrew antena, could i install two pigtails for two antenas? and would it be advisable to further hack the accesspoint to boost the signal to 80-90dB?? i believe the FCC limits these 2.4Ghz signals to 100dB, but dont quote me on that.
i would suggest that if you are, that you go with comodity hardware, only the best equipment, and dont confuse highest quality with top of the line.
AMD chips have proven themself very reliable and very fast for the price. Get a good ASUS,Soltek,Soyo,Abit, or Tyan motherboard and an AthlonXP 1500+, this is all you should need for a small office like you have, in fact prob. a little more.
get crucial, corsair, or mushkin DDR memory. Some others are fine to but GET GOOD RAM!
you can build a modest server for $600-$800 and run a Linux or BSD. You choise of distro but some are easier than others. For a super easy distro, mandrake8 has everything you need including samba, DHCP, and email servers on the disk, and it can be downloaded for free OR a version with some tech support can be had on the cheap from mandrakesoft.
Also, Redhat offers setup and tech support for a good price on servers. They would come and set your system up for you and get you started, make your life easy for not too much $$. And RedHat is a very solid distro.
Debian is GREAT, but hard to set up if your not a "guru"
you can make a VERY good performing comodity PC function just fine for you until your company grows to need a higher end system.
first, i wish someone would bring linux to the masses, this could speed up devolpment in some cases and xfree86 could use a redoo, or replacement. i wouldnt mind linux being offered on an OEM pc for a change.
also, the AOL/Time warner thing is BAD! AOL has historically bought and killed software and i dont see them changing. Is netscape the default browser for AOL?, no and it never will be. This could happen to RedHat, but we wont just lose a browser this time, we will loose one of a bigest and most influential linux companies around, and that could damage linux.
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MacOSX put on a good show, but losing to linux by 10% is pretty substantial. Most like having aqua running caused most of that deficite.
Linux has far more people working on it, and yes, even more people working on the PowerPC architecture than apple, this is a characteristic of opensource, so I am impressed by the performance of OSX.
I have used 15 XServes and they are a really good peice of hardware, and with OSX they are EXTREMELY easy to configure. In my opinion, for the ease of use/configuration and the imediate ability to integrate into Windows netoworks with ease, the 10% loss to linux is pretty good.
I recommend XServe/OSX systems to many of my clients because they are more cost effective to set up than linux or windows machines in many circumstances. Linux wins in performance and ability to run on cheap commodity hardware, but losses on the human factor.
Someone needs to set it up, and that person is most likely pretty expensive. I charge $55 an hour to schools(which is an amazing deal) out of the goodness of my heart, and your looking at a day of setting up a set of linux machines, installing the OS, configureing the software etc. $550+ in labor + $1400+/ machine in hardware(to compete with an Xserve)about $2000/machine. with XServer/OSX systems, you open the box and spend about 45 minutes setting the thing up, and its done.about $3100/machine. not bad for a fast/reliable server.
I am looking forward to seeing/getting one of the new Palms with OS6. Handspring has plans for an XScale 600Mhz machine/ATI imageon and 128MB memory for launch with PalmOS6. I currently have a Toshivae740 which i like but WinCE is not my idea of a efficient OS, typical microsoft software, tries to be everything to everyone right out of the box. I like the idea of a "modular" palm6 so i can kill all the crap i dont like without the OS dieing. example=WinCE. If you delete the PocketExcel folder, the damn thing wont boot!
Palm will most likely have optimized builds for different chips used. the new ARM should have its own build, the old ARM, XScale, etc.
i have heard rumors that palm6 will also be using by sony in some upcomming set top boxes with 'tivo'like features, and with the BeOS technology we should get a nice smooth and quick interface with great media abilities.
id like to point out that though a hard drive cost more $/Gb than tape, most people do not develope a library of old daily backups, but rather rotate through the same tapes over and over in a weekly to monthly schedule. Doing this make hard drives cheaper per Gb as the longevity of hard drives significantly reduces the costs versus tapes.
How many times can you write to a tape before it needs replaced? before the media is stretch so bad it cant reliably hold data?
hard drives can be written to for many many years when used as a backup device in a hotswap bay.
DVD and DVD-RAM on the other hand, have a limited number of writes and/or rewrites and mean buying more media on a regular basis. The media is more spendy than tapes but does have the low random access times which is nice.
FYI, i run a computer service center and i have been recommending hot swap drives for backup to all my customers.
20Gb drives are resonably cheap and last for the forseable lifetime of the machine being backed up. they are just as convinient as tapes in portability but more reliable. In schools i typically have the super or principal take the backup home with him/her OR lock in in the firesafe.
dont get an Itanium, by the time you get the machine, and have it set up and running, your $2000+ proc will be out dated. Itaniums are very fast per clock, but they are only ~1Ghz.
i would suggest you wait til hammer, not necessarily to buy one but the market will react to it, meaning the price will drop on most other compeeting chips. AND the Itanic may just be a bit faster.
when Hammer comes out, you should be able to get 4way Hammer systems running @ 2+Ghz(3200+ rating) and Hammer is a much better SMP chip than most others you may know of.
go fibre, period, why would you run a backbone on Cu if their is any though of crosstalk?
Cat6, Cat7? f*k them,
Cat5e is the way to go, its in the spec for GigaEthernet, why not?
but really, go fibre on the backbone
i dissagree, microsoft has really done some stupid things rescently and people are willing to jump ship if someone offers a good product with the speed, or perception of speed, to compete with windows.
if apple could get their performance up, and not charge $3000 for the priveledge of having a fast machine(dual 1.25Ghz G4) then they would be a very powerful competator in the desktop market.
steve jobs is a smart guy, he is planning something big, and he has a stratagy. Bill Gates is a smart guy too, but he is not in charge of Microsoft, and Microsoft has grow too large to make quick changes to counter apple, like they did in the past.
apple need to do two things, get a faster platform, and make their machines an attanable item to the vast majority of PC users.
my arguement to this post is that adobe already has a good amount of x86 development under their belts as well as they are currently porting photoshop to cocoa. This would not be a very hard thing for adobe to do.
i belive, that if each consumer, the end consumer, were deleteing these scenes then it would be fair use. Too not watch certain parts of a movie because they may be offinsive is certainly fair use.
i dont believe that a person or company may alter a movie and then sell it, essentially makeing profit off of someone elses merchandise. This is not fair use, this is theft.
the only way around that i can see, is selling the end consumer a box that can skip scenes, and then selling them some sort of program or key that skips scenes preselected by the 'clean films' company. then you would certainly be selling them a service and NOT selling them altered versions of a film.
how about organizing your files so you dont need some exotic system?
/media /media/mp3 /media/video /media/images ...etc..etc..
use LVM and make one large volume, create
very easy, very simple..
is this not evolution in language?
how else can a language advance?
this makes our language shorter and more efficient over time, just like the gradual change from old english to modern english. things that do not work well fall aside like fads, and things that work well are integrated into the standard. Compare language to the linux kernel, good stuff gets integrated into the official, and the bad stuff is just a patch that will fade out of knowledge in time.
secondly, people are visualy learners for the most part. if you read a word spelled correctly 1000 times, you know that is how it is to be spelled, even if you were never taught how to spell it. I read "anonymous" many many times per day, and i know how to spell it, but i have never been taught to spell it. spell chackers dont dumb down kids, they are just a different method of teaching them.
calculators on the other hand. they dont show the process by which they reach their answer, they just spit it out. children should be taught to do fundamental math in school, and taught to be able to do simple mathimatical problems quickly in thier head. calculators should be used when the limits on the common persons memory skills are the barrier. most people cant remember more than 5 or 6 numbers at a time, so if you need to add 25 numbers, you need paper or a calculator, or when the numbers are beyond most people intelegence to calculate, 2.87x964.3 for example, try that in your head.
also remember, the human mind is an extremely powerful computer, capable of doing complete mathimatics very quickly, BUT, the interface with the mind needs to be taught to exploit that power.
get:
:) ,
Arena Indy 2600/fibre channel 16 Bay IDE Rackmount
-(16 IDE drives with a SCSI 160/fiber channel interface, 512MB PC133RAM)2+ GB/s transfer rate.
16xWD 8mb SE 160GB 7200 RPM IDE Drives
this gives 1.7Terabytes per enclosure.
use a MSI dual athlon motherboard
-(5PCI slots, dual 2000+ athlonXP, 4Gb PC2100DDR)
put four SCSI160/fibre channel controllers in with two channels per.
you need 24 enclosures, 6 per card, no problem running four loops of 6 enclosures.
enclosures:
$8000 per
x 24 = $192,000
drives
$161 per
x 384 = $62,000
fibre channel controllers and cables:
~$2000 per
4 x 2000 = $8000
server machine:
~$3000
(dual XP 2000+, 4GB ram, 40GB IDE drive for OS
gigabit network card:
$300 (a good one)
$265,300
EVERYTHING x 2 for redundancy
$530,600
IF 2.5 series linux kernel supports it, you can run linux software RAID on the 24 enclosures and linux will see each enclosure as a single drive, but 2.4 series kernel has a 2Terabyte filesystem size limit.
otherwise, Windows2000 server, software RAID all 24 drives RAID 0(redundancy is handle per drive encluse, no server side redundancy is needed. I believe that NTFS and the windows kernel can handle more than 40Terabyte file system sizes.
two identicle servers mirror each other with either windows or linux clustering and fallover support.
you think that one Gigabyte network card is too little? how much PCI bandwidth is their available?
their would be a limit on the PCI bus in this situation but thier is no way around it, other than waiting on AMD Hammer OR getting an Itanium2 which has multiple PCI busses.
ok, so $530,600 plus $2000 is software, plus setup costs of say $5000, plus three racks @ $5000 per, A/C units $5000
it could be done for about $557,600, give or take about $10,000. and this is with awesome redundancy, RAID 5 underneath RAID 1
max transfer rates would not break about 512Mb/second(PCI 33Mhzx32bit=1056Mbs shared between the drive array and the gigabyte ethernet card, but seek and read/write speeds would be incredible.
yes, ill prob get my *** kicked for a 3 page long post, but it's worth it.
Netscape is just a proprietary wrap up of mozilla technology. everything in netscape can be installed into mozilla as an add-on such as the spell checker for instance.
:)
the argurement that netscape may not be blocked while mozilla could be is bogus, thy both report the same renderer, and unless people at tartgetting sites AGAINST mozilla then it is very unlikely.
mozilla is better in my opionion because of the open nature of it, whereas netscape is a perversion of mozilla's open nature.
Plus mozilla icons are better
Mozilla as a platform is an interesting idea as well. Anyone here ran OEone? http://www.oeone.com
it runs on redhat 7.2 and is a nice little desktop environment to give linux a user friendly look. Check it out if your running redhat 7.1 or 7.2(not 7.3 yet) i like it, but im not a redhat fan so ill wait until it is available for other distros linux gentoo and Suse.
IF a movie is worth spending so much and risking so much, then isn't it WORTH the wait and the 7 bucks for a ticket and another 7 for popcorn and pop.
this is not an MP3. i like to hear an album before I buy it of coarse, i will download it and if i like it make the short trek over to CD Warehouse and get it, its the least i can do if its a good product. This does not transfer over to movies.
If you download the movie and trade it, you are going to reduce the cash that they make in the theater. Yes, Many will still go see it in the theater but it reduces the movie.
I downloaded starwars episode 2 about two weeks before it opened but i couldn't convince myself to watch it, and i will never download a pre-release movie again.
also, i have waited a long time for this series of movies, i will put my money down to see it, its worth it. the guys that made it deserve their fair share and by downling(stealing) the movie you are stealing directly from them. Their is no RIAA here, you are stealling from them. The studio that makes a film gets a BIG chunk of it and YOU ARE STEALING FROM THEM.
linux is not meant to try to replace machines such as the AS400s using just one ix86 machine.
the idea is, to set up redundant pairs of linux machines made to do one or a few tasks.
10 linux machines can offer great uptime via the use of clustering, mirroring and fallover support.
run a Database on one pair(2), the firewall, email, and DCHP, DNS, etc on another pair(4). the third pair for file serving to the local network and FTP(6), the fourth pair for the Web server(8), and the fifth pair for other various stuff, like samba(10).
OR
just run all services on one machine and do some clustering with fallover and round robin to access resources.
linux is very very good at this, and cheap. an AS400 is a single machine most likely, that requeres routing maintainance and equipment failure which means downtime. Their is not another machine to pick up the slack in most circumstances. AS400s are expensive to support compared to a linux system.
this sounds like another version of Steven King's 'The Stand', where a powerfull virus aka superflu, infects and kills most of the population and only a few survive, from that point on most if not all humans would be immune to the virus, similar virii, or even completely different virii that attack in the same way.
that is 6.3Mb, which equals 786K
1024*768 = 786432 pixels, at 8bit color, 8 bits are used per pixel, theirfor 1Byte/pixel. 786,432bytes per image, uncompressed, but then compression is used and may reduce the image to 1/2-3/4, so on the high end about 600Kilobytes.
not 600Kilobytes/frame, would in fact be 9.2MB/sec, but why would you update the whole screen?, of coarse the box would only update parts that had changed., realistically that resolution can be broadcast over a 56k connection because no more than 5% of the screen changes during most operations. even moving a window does not take too much bandwidth because the intelegent compression technology can "drift" parts of an image to a new position.
also, keep in mind that the console is 640x400x4bit. = 128K per uncompressed image, and if it scales well. then a 56k should be more than adequate as @32K(average ~56k connection speed) it would take at most 4 seconds to do a full page refresh, and like i said before, only very small parts are refreshed on a regular basis. each character should be about 10pixelsx6pixels@4bit. so 8bytes for a single letter?
rember that compression as well!
LED lights are too dim.
its hard to get enough in a small enough space to do much good, and you would require at least 75-150$ worth to get enough light to use the projector in daylight.
IF you had enough space, you could group 150-200 white LEDs in a tight slightly curved mount the same arc as a compressing lense , then focues that light onto a diffuser, spread the beam to a freznel the size of your LCD screen and hope for the best.
this would get expensive as a set of high quality lenses would be in the 100$ price range and 200 LEDs would run about $300, plus time.
though youre light source would be good for 150,000+ hours, and would just slowly degrade when the LEDs got old and failed.
and powering 200LED lights would not be too difficult, with the use of a PC power supply you can have 3.3/5/8.3/10/12/15.3/17/20.3/24 volt outputs , enough to drive many arrays of LED lights without any problem.
can i use old drives, in an old computer, and use some sort of "smartdrive" program to cache frequently accessed data to improve speed. right?
well..im not sure about the cacheing, but my celeron300a with 64MB of ram, work great. have four hd channels onboard, and 8 additional from the two highpoint controllers. i run 12 drives, in software RAID0+1, all of them are 40Gb WD 7200RPM drives and i have 240Gb avail. the speed of this array easily maxed out my network cards bandwidth(12MB/s vs. 50+MB/s) so i installed 3 3com NIC's, i still cannot match the 50+MB/s of the drives, but 36MB/s over a network is very good, since no one computer can pull this much through on one NIC anyway. and this is just a celeron300a with 64MB of RAM.
im running a pretty fast setup with minimal CPU, so slower drives should work well with a low pentium class machine..
ps - i have noticed that my network storage array is not as fast as id like as im running a file server for a my local network, with 20+ machines on most of the time, but you could put multiple machines around your network to simulate more speed. not as many poeple accessing the same resource will of coarse improve performance.
just my $.02..good luck
how is a graphics card supposed to send this post processed data back to the 3d app to use? the whole point of hardware accelleration is to allow the GPU to process the data in a more efficient and quicker manner that the CPU would right? so how is the GPU going to give this data back? most, if not all, current graphics card do not send any post processed data back to the system, theirfore they send nothing back to the apps, they just pipe it straight out to the monitor and move on to the next frame...
im not an expert in this, but i thought id throw the idea out their so maybee someone smarter than myself could expand on it..
im assuming that this apartment complex has rg6 coax for cable television??, and a central location so that the cable provider can administer it??
go for cable modems, place 48 port switch and a cable modem hub, run a DCHP server to make it easy and provide user/password access rights to the internet connection.
You can make a 10mb LAN to provide access AND the posibility of local file sharing.
Be has every reason to sue. i dont think ill have and agruements on that. some people do argue that it is a little too late.
i dont agree that it is too late. Be waited until the end, hoping it could survive against microsoft, so they deserve credit for not jumping on the "sue M$" bandwagon. Be went until the bitter end. Now its time to sue when their is NO doubt that M$'s negative monopolistic practices saturated the market with its products, and pushed out fair competition.
Everyone is tied to windows, even hard core linux people are tied to windows in some way. Windows is in every corner of the market, and not because it is THAT much better than everything else, because of illegal monopolistic actions to destroy fair competition. Be could have lived as a dual boot OS for specific tasks until it could grow into a complete OS(complete meaning OS AND a competitive program library)
One big arguement for Windows being a "superior product" that i have heard, is the "look how many leading apps are for windows only", BullSh*t!!, how do you think windows got all those leading apps, because the GUI was soo cool!?!, because of some technilogical advantage?!?, no! Monopolistic practices that nearly wiped out apple before, and rescently wiped out BeOS.
Be. Inc. , i hope you can present a good case, i hope you can bring some of the lost profits back to your shareholders, and maybee even salvage what is left of your business.
sorry, 100 dB was supposed to read 100mW
might one of these antenas be mounted in reverse, on a small DSS/primestar style dish to improve reception?
just place the end of the pringles can at the focal point of the dish? i would suspect a significant gain from this, but then again the whole point of a pringles can antena is to be cheap, how cheap can a person get a dish?
also, what do you suspect the range to be on one of these homebrew antenas? could it span 2 miles to a passive repeater, then two more miles? or would the repeater have to be and active 802.11b access point?
if i were to hack an 802.11b access point to install a pigtail for a homebrew antena, could i install two pigtails for two antenas? and would it be advisable to further hack the accesspoint to boost the signal to 80-90dB?? i believe the FCC limits these 2.4Ghz signals to 100dB, but dont quote me on that.
just how computer savy are you?
do you have linux experience?, BSD?
i would suggest that if you are, that you go with comodity hardware, only the best equipment, and dont confuse highest quality with top of the line.
AMD chips have proven themself very reliable and very fast for the price.
Get a good ASUS,Soltek,Soyo,Abit, or Tyan motherboard and an AthlonXP 1500+, this is all you should need for a small office like you have, in fact prob. a little more.
get crucial, corsair, or mushkin DDR memory. Some others are fine to but GET GOOD RAM!
you can build a modest server for $600-$800 and run a Linux or BSD. You choise of distro but some are easier than others. For a super easy distro, mandrake8 has everything you need including samba, DHCP, and email servers on the disk, and it can be downloaded for free OR a version with some tech support can be had on the cheap from mandrakesoft.
Also, Redhat offers setup and tech support for a good price on servers. They would come and set your system up for you and get you started, make your life easy for not too much $$. And RedHat is a very solid distro.
Debian is GREAT, but hard to set up if your not a "guru"
you can make a VERY good performing comodity PC function just fine for you until your company grows to need a higher end system.
first, i wish someone would bring linux to the masses, this could speed up devolpment in some cases and xfree86 could use a redoo, or replacement. i wouldnt mind linux being offered on an OEM pc for a change.
also, the AOL/Time warner thing is BAD! AOL has historically bought and killed software and i dont see them changing. Is netscape the default browser for AOL?, no and it never will be. This could happen to RedHat, but we wont just lose a browser this time, we will loose one of a bigest and most influential linux companies around, and that could damage linux.