Bank One works fine with Firefix and it is a modern naionwide bank. Not that I am saying their service or anything else is better, but they are not bad.
Just switch. The ones that adapt and survice, the rest, thankfully, will disappear.
The Vodoo 5 5500 had two processors and the Voodoo 5 6000 had four. If they would have come to market fast enough and not been super expensive for the time, it really would been something.
You can thank the Microsoft marketing engine for this mentality. I have been involved a few projects where managers have either understaffed IT believing the hype that MS products really don't need staff after setup (while MS products are easier/quicker to setup, they require, in general, more hands on time in day to day ops and as you add more third party products, things can mysteriously break. If you go MS, it is even more important to get someone with deep AND wide knowledge in administration) or have suggested going with OpenSource products expecting the same level of ease of use.
While it is amusing to see a MCSE struggling to configure Postgres or MaxDB (which can be a little tricky) and complaining about the lack of a GUI (I didn't have the heart to find and install the various GUIs for them...heh), it does not sit well with the PHB to see labor costs skyrocket with no discernable work being done (from their perspective).
The moral of this rant is: even though it is free software, that does not automatically mean that you should not have to pay for the expertise to setup, run, and maintane it. RedHat (and the other commercial distros) have excellent service and tend to service smaller companies at the same level MS only does for much larger companies. PHBs should be looking for gain in long term licensing costs and flexibility. No lock-in, no artificially driven need to upgrade, no technological sea change forced upon you.
Sorry...I as refering to the windows version. The project I work on deals with pushing multiple Windows desktops. The only two things that work the way we want on Windows is Tarantella and Citrix. We are currently looking at using vmware ESX server to push multiple windows desktops (esx runs via a custom linux) via RDP. The whole goal is to eliminate the the need for Citrix or terminal server licenses. Windows on the desktop is a must because of software lock-in (iManage).
Also, anyone now how to push a single application (not the whole desktop) to a windows (or linux/unix) machine via either VNC or X11 a la nFuse? Its one of the features we are locked into with Citrix.
Think stateless migratable multiuser VNC sessions (last time I checked VNC was not multiuser...only one desktop after all). NoMachines product gets a lot closer to Citrix, which is one of three killer apps on Windows that does not have a decent analog in Linux (also Quark XPress [Scribus doesn't come close], Citrix [no X11 isn't even the same type of idea, neither is VNC], and unfortunately, Exchange (although SuSe's OpenExchange server is very, very close).
Yes...I know the link points to the admin hearing (which goes to the full commision). The commision reports of the FTC are all PDFs and nobody clicks on a PDF in slashdot...feh.
I figured that slashdotters would be intelligent and diligent enough to do there own digging if they wanted more information, but apprently not. (at least for old geoffy up there...nice email response there buddy).
Here's the one (the MAP case) that you are talking about that was settled. It was a class action by 39 states attorneys general and the record companies settled. I love the quote in the article saying the price of CDs should go down to $5 after the settlement...ha.
Oh, and that case started from a ruling by the FTC that the record companies had indeed been price fixing and the record companies got off with very little fine and promising to stop the MAP pricing program for 7 years. They didn't stop and 39 states sued.
The author of Minix (which he wrote from scratch by himself) said that Linux (the kernel) may look and act a lot like Minix and have been inspired by Minix (Minix was specifically written to be used as a teaching tool so it isn't surprising that an OS would resemble its functionality), but that it is a completely different design. Actually, he slams Linus for making it monolithic and said he should have listened more in class...ha.
Actually, it costs a lot less than $1.25 to press and package a commercial audio CD, but you are right, the outdated, inefficient, and corrupt marketing schemes used by distributors is to blame for the high price of media.
Although, don't forget that the big five distributors were CONVICTED during the Napster case of price fixing in a federal court. I got my $13 check, did you get yours?
I remember back a ways when the Marines where testing sticky guns in Iraq for "non-lethal" crowd control and it had two big issues:
1.) hit them in the face and they suffocate 2.) the dang things gummed up all the time...duh.
The ultra low frequency sound cannon worked very very well, however (makes an entire crowd have to go poo RIGHT NOW...very effective for dispersal) and it is cheap. A tuned tube, some gaseous fuel and a spark plug basically.
I switched to Vorbis when Fraunhoffer (the people that hold patent rights to mp3) where making a stink about enforcing their patents (which they did...they just didn't go after decoders...yet). This wasn't long after the GIF patent debacle. So, yes, there is a very good reason to use something other than mp3 and that something else, right now, is Ogg Vorbis.
Look up Red Storm and the other massive systems. You can use bridge chips and hyptertransport switches to bridge 8 - way nodes. You can go 4 way glueless, 8 way with glue, and up to a number limited by interconnect and latency (who knows how high that is...more than the 10,000 node systems proposed by Cray...and they should know).
no that extra ping provides market segmentation...ha.
Actually, the pinouts are very different between S940 and S939. I think they originally were going to do all of them as 940's and realized the issues that would cause (the power leads are in different places, for instance).
The current Opteron has dual channel controllers. There really isn't that much of a reason to go dual dual channel when in many situations, the single channel Athlon 64's outperform the Opterons because of reduced latency (no registered dimms).
Because the K8 has the memory controller on die, as you add processors, you actually add memory bandwidth. It kinda stands the old logic on its head. Really the only thing that can be an issue on this core is latency can make a difference at 16 CPUs or more;-)
The iPod is very slick looking, but I have issues with the functionality. So far, the best I have seen in the more complex players is the Rio Karma...by a mile. Now, that is a slick looking player.
Actually, the big jump in heat for the Prescott cores is from Intel use of only starined silicon in manufacturing. By creating a strained lattice for the silicon, you increase the likelyhood of current leakage (hence more heat). This is why AMD and IBM went with silicon on insulator and added strained silicon later (the SOI process helps to mitigate the leakage in strained silicon).
I am running right now: Apache2 with two intranet sites w/PHP & Perl MySQL IIS 5 (a test ASP based site demands it...yuck) Firefox with several tabs open Outlook for exchange (my biggest memory hog) A time tracker app (don't ask) Yz Dock Yz Toolbar Climate Prediction Net A weather monitor SpyBot SD memory resident (Tea timer) and NAV corporate (managed...which is a dog)
And I am using a grand total of: 369 MB
BTW...even on a 2 GHZ CELERON, it flies and I have plenty left to edit a Word doc or Excell or whatever.
I am setting here with a pretty bloated system running XP Pro and it is chewing 84 MB. In what unspeakable manner have you abused your XP install? The two biggest hogs on an XP box are Internet Explorer and Outlook (full version)...Office XP components chew lots of ram, too, but I do not use them at all or IE for that matter except Outlook (no choice). The desktop really does not use that much ram. Turn off the crap and you can get a desktop down to under 60 MB.
Were I am at the cable company is switching channels to digital cable one by one and you cannot get them unless you rent their box. BTW, digital cable here is nearly $100/month (it's the top package).
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Bank One works fine with Firefix and it is a modern naionwide bank. Not that I am saying their service or anything else is better, but they are not bad.
Just switch. The ones that adapt and survice, the rest, thankfully, will disappear.
The Vodoo 5 5500 had two processors and the Voodoo 5 6000 had four. If they would have come to market fast enough and not been super expensive for the time, it really would been something.
You can thank the Microsoft marketing engine for this mentality. I have been involved a few projects where managers have either understaffed IT believing the hype that MS products really don't need staff after setup (while MS products are easier/quicker to setup, they require, in general, more hands on time in day to day ops and as you add more third party products, things can mysteriously break. If you go MS, it is even more important to get someone with deep AND wide knowledge in administration) or have suggested going with OpenSource products expecting the same level of ease of use.
While it is amusing to see a MCSE struggling to configure Postgres or MaxDB (which can be a little tricky) and complaining about the lack of a GUI (I didn't have the heart to find and install the various GUIs for them...heh), it does not sit well with the PHB to see labor costs skyrocket with no discernable work being done (from their perspective).
The moral of this rant is: even though it is free software, that does not automatically mean that you should not have to pay for the expertise to setup, run, and maintane it. RedHat (and the other commercial distros) have excellent service and tend to service smaller companies at the same level MS only does for much larger companies. PHBs should be looking for gain in long term licensing costs and flexibility. No lock-in, no artificially driven need to upgrade, no technological sea change forced upon you.
Sorry...I as refering to the windows version. The project I work on deals with pushing multiple Windows desktops. The only two things that work the way we want on Windows is Tarantella and Citrix. We are currently looking at using vmware ESX server to push multiple windows desktops (esx runs via a custom linux) via RDP. The whole goal is to eliminate the the need for Citrix or terminal server licenses. Windows on the desktop is a must because of software lock-in (iManage).
Also, anyone now how to push a single application (not the whole desktop) to a windows (or linux/unix) machine via either VNC or X11 a la nFuse? Its one of the features we are locked into with Citrix.
Think stateless migratable multiuser VNC sessions (last time I checked VNC was not multiuser...only one desktop after all). NoMachines product gets a lot closer to Citrix, which is one of three killer apps on Windows that does not have a decent analog in Linux (also Quark XPress [Scribus doesn't come close], Citrix [no X11 isn't even the same type of idea, neither is VNC], and unfortunately, Exchange (although SuSe's OpenExchange server is very, very close).
Yes...I know the link points to the admin hearing (which goes to the full commision). The commision reports of the FTC are all PDFs and nobody clicks on a PDF in slashdot...feh.
I figured that slashdotters would be intelligent and diligent enough to do there own digging if they wanted more information, but apprently not. (at least for old geoffy up there...nice email response there buddy).
Sad...
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2002/06/3tenors.htm
- 30 -cd-settlement_x.htm
Here's the one (the MAP case) that you are talking about that was settled. It was a class action by 39 states attorneys general and the record companies settled. I love the quote in the article saying the price of CDs should go down to $5 after the settlement...ha.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-09
Oh, and that case started from a ruling by the FTC that the record companies had indeed been price fixing and the record companies got off with very little fine and promising to stop the MAP pricing program for 7 years. They didn't stop and 39 states sued.
The author of Minix (which he wrote from scratch by himself) said that Linux (the kernel) may look and act a lot like Minix and have been inspired by Minix (Minix was specifically written to be used as a teaching tool so it isn't surprising that an OS would resemble its functionality), but that it is a completely different design. Actually, he slams Linus for making it monolithic and said he should have listened more in class...ha.
This makes all forms of communication illegal.
Asshats...
Actually, it costs a lot less than $1.25 to press and package a commercial audio CD, but you are right, the outdated, inefficient, and corrupt marketing schemes used by distributors is to blame for the high price of media.
Although, don't forget that the big five distributors were CONVICTED during the Napster case of price fixing in a federal court. I got my $13 check, did you get yours?
I beleive this is the company that developed the protos used. The do not talk about the infrasound device, however, on their website...curious.
http://www.atcsd.com/tl_hss.html
I remember back a ways when the Marines where testing sticky guns in Iraq for "non-lethal" crowd control and it had two big issues:
1.) hit them in the face and they suffocate
2.) the dang things gummed up all the time...duh.
The ultra low frequency sound cannon worked very very well, however (makes an entire crowd have to go poo RIGHT NOW...very effective for dispersal) and it is cheap. A tuned tube, some gaseous fuel and a spark plug basically.
I switched to Vorbis when Fraunhoffer (the people that hold patent rights to mp3) where making a stink about enforcing their patents (which they did...they just didn't go after decoders...yet). This wasn't long after the GIF patent debacle. So, yes, there is a very good reason to use something other than mp3 and that something else, right now, is Ogg Vorbis.
Actually, my player does OGG and FLAC just fine, thank you.
Look up Red Storm and the other massive systems. You can use bridge chips and hyptertransport switches to bridge 8 - way nodes. You can go 4 way glueless, 8 way with glue, and up to a number limited by interconnect and latency (who knows how high that is...more than the 10,000 node systems proposed by Cray...and they should know).
no that extra ping provides market segmentation...ha.
Actually, the pinouts are very different between S940 and S939. I think they originally were going to do all of them as 940's and realized the issues that would cause (the power leads are in different places, for instance).
The current Opteron has dual channel controllers. There really isn't that much of a reason to go dual dual channel when in many situations, the single channel Athlon 64's outperform the Opterons because of reduced latency (no registered dimms).
Because the K8 has the memory controller on die, as you add processors, you actually add memory bandwidth. It kinda stands the old logic on its head. Really the only thing that can be an issue on this core is latency can make a difference at 16 CPUs or more ;-)
The iPod is very slick looking, but I have issues with the functionality. So far, the best I have seen in the more complex players is the Rio Karma...by a mile. Now, that is a slick looking player.
The chip all by itself is $20,000 and is about the size of ones hand. It is 4 physical, 8 logical with 144 MB (that's right...megabytes) of cache.
Actually, the big jump in heat for the Prescott cores is from Intel use of only starined silicon in manufacturing. By creating a strained lattice for the silicon, you increase the likelyhood of current leakage (hence more heat). This is why AMD and IBM went with silicon on insulator and added strained silicon later (the SOI process helps to mitigate the leakage in strained silicon).
Here's a simple primer
I am running right now:
Apache2 with two intranet sites w/PHP & Perl
MySQL
IIS 5 (a test ASP based site demands it...yuck)
Firefox with several tabs open
Outlook for exchange (my biggest memory hog)
A time tracker app (don't ask)
Yz Dock
Yz Toolbar
Climate Prediction Net
A weather monitor
SpyBot SD memory resident (Tea timer)
and NAV corporate (managed...which is a dog)
And I am using a grand total of:
369 MB
BTW...even on a 2 GHZ CELERON, it flies and I have plenty left to edit a Word doc or Excell or whatever.
I am setting here with a pretty bloated system running XP Pro and it is chewing 84 MB. In what unspeakable manner have you abused your XP install? The two biggest hogs on an XP box are Internet Explorer and Outlook (full version)...Office XP components chew lots of ram, too, but I do not use them at all or IE for that matter except Outlook (no choice). The desktop really does not use that much ram. Turn off the crap and you can get a desktop down to under 60 MB.
Were I am at the cable company is switching channels to digital cable one by one and you cannot get them unless you rent their box. BTW, digital cable here is nearly $100/month (it's the top package).
Then why didn't Apple use it if it is so darn nice?