What fantasy land are you working in? The only decent job offers I have received were from France (the only western nation thats IT job market is still growing)
I am wondering if this posturing and the Apple deal will put any of the Opteron or other deals with AMD in jeopardy considering this server is squarely in the market / price range of the Opterons.
Depends on many milliseconds of duration. Humans have been shown to take 35 G's for very short durations (belted head on collision at 50 mph for example), but anything over about a 100 milliseconds and your organs (and bones) tend to go a little mushy.
They couldn't get a hold of a super-cheap Athlon XP or even a sub $1500 Opteron server, but they got a hold of an Apple G5 which isn't even available for sale???
Puh-lease... The gripe with the SPEC benchmarks was that Apples numbers for the competition were WAY below the OFFICIAL numbers, ot that Apples numbers for their own equipment was crap.
Jeeze...let's at least wait till these things are SHIPPING.
1.) Thanks to WorldCom inflating growth figures (that's what got them into trouble) for nearly 10 years, there is a tremendous amount of fiber lines just sitting there doing nothing. Don't believe the hype, there is enough base infrastructure in the US to give every body a T1 or better (but then we wouldn't need phones, cable/satellite TV, radios, etc...heh). Wireless meshes are popping up all over the place (in cities anyways) that also can allow joe average to distribute broadband content (within the mesh). The next 10 years, eveything will shift to some form of wireless (just wait til the RIAA and pals start going after spectrum rules...man the fur is gonna fly)
2.)If they (Broadband ISPs) want to control traffic, just sell service with a QoS agreement. I would rather have a business line (at the same price I have a consumer line) with 24x7 guarantied bandwidth at a lower rate than I have now for download (say 768/768).
Whoops, on the subject of spam. The last company I worked for spam cost the company over $2 million dollars a year in bandwidth (hard to filter BEFORE it hits your gateway).
After dealing with *LOTS* of automotive documents (Crash investigations and product defect allegations), I can tell you that ALL air bag systems, ABS systems, and car computers store a wealth of information including: codes related to air bag systems (diagnostics, near deployments, deceleration values), number of times ABS system kicked on (to judge if you are an aggressive driver), all recent computer actions (fuel mixture adjustments..again to see if you are driving aggresively, etc).
Supposedly the new US computers would have GPS/Wireless capabilities standard and could possibly tattle on you if you ignore a "service" light too long (a warranty violation).
I hate to say it though, most investigations show that the driver is at fault (product liability cases) either due to excessive speed or following too close. An example of a real case was a women who claimed the ABS failed on her SUV (early 90's) and she rear-ended another vehicle. She claimed she started braking 50 yards out. Between the ABS data and the physical evidence at the scene, it was closer to 10 feet (she was cited for following too close). When the claimant was interviewed, she was asked to judge a preset distance for the investigator and she was shown just how far 50 yards was. She withdrew her allegation.
This is hilarious...seeing Mac zealotry smash head long into P2P fanaticism. I never would have dreamed that Mac users would be espousing almost the exact same arguments as windows users just a couple of years ago for P2P, sharing music, and the limits of copyright. This is going to be an interesting year.
I was with Kinko's when they went through the "fair use" wringer that really started this ball rolling (that and the VHS copying ruling). I support the idea of copyright, it makes sense to protect creative works so they can benefit the creator. The problem is that the copyright term has been extended to a virtual infinite length of time.
As a creator of art, do you really need protection for your work for the next 100 plus years? Let's go back to 14 years plus a single justified 14 additional years. It just makes more sense. Anything that needs more protection can be trademarked.
There are Java, Linux, and Citrix/Terminal Server clients available for many hand held devices already (even the Nokia Communicator phone has Citrix available for it).
The tail end of the article mentions 18-24 month timeline for "bundled" products and a lot about the desire to license the tech. Sounds like a VC hunt to me.
Still, I hope they get it to work. The world needs competitors to Citrix/Term Server (could Citrix BE any more expensive???)
So far the only "uncrackable" solutions involve using the heisneberg principle (by examing the information, you change it) and some sort of photonic system (nobody has it working...even the theorists say it is a decade or more away).
Also, studies into quantum computers is progressing rapidly. If developed into a useful device (again, probably decades away), there is possibility of cracking one time pads (I know the OTP I have used utilized a snapshot of background radiation through a serial device as the noise) if the weird theories of entropic systems proves true and modelable.
Rendezvous is just Apples implementation of ZeroConf (an IETF standard). It is a beautiful implementation, but it's not like they pulled this out of thin air. This is also about Apple FINALLY switching to IP as their primary protocol.
Anyone point out that this is the same guy that started FreeNet?
Locutus is a good idea and it is very fast. I use it as a replacement for the find file tool in windows. Locutus built its index MUCH quicker and searches are almost instantaneous.
I'll have to agree with other posters on this one. Notes is one huge steaming pile. Not that I like Exchange (the server end is nasty), but the one thing that Microsoft does right is user-friendliness. In the business world, cost to train/lost productivity figures in heavily so this IS a big deal.
The coolest thing I have seen so far to challenge the Exchange model is the Suse Linux OpenExchange Server, but it still costs $1.5K.
Come on Mitch Kapor, we want Chandler!
On the Linux on the desktop: two suggestions
1.) Single user. Design it from the ground up for a single user and dump all the excess baggage.
2.) Dump the nastiness that is X. We don't need a client/server model for a GUI on single user desktop.
OceanStore is the UC Berkely project to do something like this, except a little more generalized. I run a freenet node and it isn't THAT slow. After the index built (had to leave it up for three days straight), the access are much quicker (prolly most of the data is local, now...ha). The slowdowns with FreeNet is in the Onion Routing and the encryption. Also, GNU has a project called GNUNet that has aims similar to FreeNets.
HyperThreading (as implemented by Intel...remember they didn't invent this idea) shares a single cache line among two virtual processors. This means if an application is cache hungry or doesn't play nice with HT, then it can monopolize the cache and starve the other threads. The P4 architecture revolves around a central idea: get as much data into the core as possible. That is why the cache size and bus speed changes with the P4 makes such a dramatic speed increase (as opposed to the Athlon). This is also why when there are HT problems, the speed drop can be terrible.
IBM passed on CMT (basically hyperthreading) due to these issues and decided on multicore/process level multiprocessing as more efficient.
Yeah, the model numbers refer to previous AMD Athlons. It was originally the 1.4 GHz model, but they had to readjust the numbers when the Athlon XP came out (they added full SSE support) and then again when the revision B Athlon XP came out (lowered latencies, core redesign). The Bartons number have been readjusted again because it has slightly better IPC than previous gens.
They were using MetaFrame to push apps (as Citrix is supposed to do). Sorry if it sounded confusing. The idea was that we replaced the desktops with thin clients (we called them etch-a-sketches...heh), and the employess were given accessd to the network deployed apps they were supposed to have. The benefits were that the machines were virtually uncrashable (embedded thin-clients), the OS is virtually uncrashable (If one citrix instance craps out, another is spawned and little work is lost), anyone can get to their specific resources from anywhere in the system. I wish I knew more about Citrix, I was stunned at the flexibility.
Apparently, the only people who like this software are politicans. The Houston IT community is up in arms about this choice of software. They suggest using OpenOffice instead.
This software has been picked for Chicago and Phoenix, too.
The control of the desktop is core to many things in the enterprise. Companies are legally and financially responsible for everything that happens on, comes from, or comes into that PC in your cube. Because of this (and a litigeous society), the end user has no rights to his PC at all (in fact the end user has quite a few responsibilities).
Some graphic examples: employee ignores warnings of the day and opens that attachment (Code Red infection, firings, two lawsuits), employees (almost 100) keep installing Gator and webshots (eating bandwidth, causing security violations to HIPAA, etc.) so company switches to Citrix based desktops and thin clients, employees install unlicensed software and during Microsoft audit is discovered (loss of government contract, lots of firings, one federal arrest, lots and lots of fines, bankrupt business), etc.
Oh for christs sake, the damn thing is priced at ATI 9700 Pro prices. I have no idea why the prices are so high for Europe (sorry), maybe the original post is way out of date.
What I would pay big money for is the XP GUI on top of linux/unix. As I sit here, I have a machine which is running the Lycoris distro and it comes close to the ease of use.
I have said it many times before, but I'll post it again: the world will be a much better place if everyone DUMPS X. X has no future on the average desktop which is where the OS battle is fought. Linux/Unix in the server world is fine, but there are few (Xandros, Lycoris, Ximian, etc) that are good enugh to be called desktop distros.
Now when Fresco, Chandler, Phoenix (which rocks), etc. all fully mature, I'll be a happy boy.
Or maybe Apple will get off their ass (aka Steve Jobs), and port MacOS X to x86. ah...to be a dreamer...
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What fantasy land are you working in? The only decent job offers I have received were from France (the only western nation thats IT job market is still growing)
I am wondering if this posturing and the Apple deal will put any of the Opteron or other deals with AMD in jeopardy considering this server is squarely in the market / price range of the Opterons.
Depends on many milliseconds of duration. Humans have been shown to take 35 G's for very short durations (belted head on collision at 50 mph for example), but anything over about a 100 milliseconds and your organs (and bones) tend to go a little mushy.
They couldn't get a hold of a super-cheap Athlon XP or even a sub $1500 Opteron server, but they got a hold of an Apple G5 which isn't even available for sale???
Puh-lease... The gripe with the SPEC benchmarks was that Apples numbers for the competition were WAY below the OFFICIAL numbers, ot that Apples numbers for their own equipment was crap.
Jeeze...let's at least wait till these things are SHIPPING.
Stupid simple solution. Don't want and album chopped apart for single song sales, just record it as one very long track.
Problem solved.
Bring it on, bitch...I have nothing but bandwidth and time in this Bush economy.
Two comments:
1.) Thanks to WorldCom inflating growth figures (that's what got them into trouble) for nearly 10 years, there is a tremendous amount of fiber lines just sitting there doing nothing. Don't believe the hype, there is enough base infrastructure in the US to give every body a T1 or better (but then we wouldn't need phones, cable/satellite TV, radios, etc...heh). Wireless meshes are popping up all over the place (in cities anyways) that also can allow joe average to distribute broadband content (within the mesh). The next 10 years, eveything will shift to some form of wireless (just wait til the RIAA and pals start going after spectrum rules...man the fur is gonna fly)
2.)If they (Broadband ISPs) want to control traffic, just sell service with a QoS agreement. I would rather have a business line (at the same price I have a consumer line) with 24x7 guarantied bandwidth at a lower rate than I have now for download (say 768/768).
Whoops, on the subject of spam. The last company I worked for spam cost the company over $2 million dollars a year in bandwidth (hard to filter BEFORE it hits your gateway).
After dealing with *LOTS* of automotive documents (Crash investigations and product defect allegations), I can tell you that ALL air bag systems, ABS systems, and car computers store a wealth of information including: codes related to air bag systems (diagnostics, near deployments, deceleration values), number of times ABS system kicked on (to judge if you are an aggressive driver), all recent computer actions (fuel mixture adjustments..again to see if you are driving aggresively, etc).
Supposedly the new US computers would have GPS/Wireless capabilities standard and could possibly tattle on you if you ignore a "service" light too long (a warranty violation).
I hate to say it though, most investigations show that the driver is at fault (product liability cases) either due to excessive speed or following too close. An example of a real case was a women who claimed the ABS failed on her SUV (early 90's) and she rear-ended another vehicle. She claimed she started braking 50 yards out. Between the ABS data and the physical evidence at the scene, it was closer to 10 feet (she was cited for following too close). When the claimant was interviewed, she was asked to judge a preset distance for the investigator and she was shown just how far 50 yards was. She withdrew her allegation.
This is hilarious...seeing Mac zealotry smash head long into P2P fanaticism. I never would have dreamed that Mac users would be espousing almost the exact same arguments as windows users just a couple of years ago for P2P, sharing music, and the limits of copyright. This is going to be an interesting year.
I was with Kinko's when they went through the "fair use" wringer that really started this ball rolling (that and the VHS copying ruling). I support the idea of copyright, it makes sense to protect creative works so they can benefit the creator. The problem is that the copyright term has been extended to a virtual infinite length of time.
As a creator of art, do you really need protection for your work for the next 100 plus years? Let's go back to 14 years plus a single justified 14 additional years. It just makes more sense. Anything that needs more protection can be trademarked.
There are Java, Linux, and Citrix/Terminal Server clients available for many hand held devices already (even the Nokia Communicator phone has Citrix available for it).
The tail end of the article mentions 18-24 month timeline for "bundled" products and a lot about the desire to license the tech. Sounds like a VC hunt to me.
Still, I hope they get it to work. The world needs competitors to Citrix/Term Server (could Citrix BE any more expensive???)
So far the only "uncrackable" solutions involve using the heisneberg principle (by examing the information, you change it) and some sort of photonic system (nobody has it working...even the theorists say it is a decade or more away).
Also, studies into quantum computers is progressing rapidly. If developed into a useful device (again, probably decades away), there is possibility of cracking one time pads (I know the OTP I have used utilized a snapshot of background radiation through a serial device as the noise) if the weird theories of entropic systems proves true and modelable.
Rendezvous is just Apples implementation of ZeroConf (an IETF standard). It is a beautiful implementation, but it's not like they pulled this out of thin air. This is also about Apple FINALLY switching to IP as their primary protocol.
It is really neat, though.
Anyone point out that this is the same guy that started FreeNet?
Locutus is a good idea and it is very fast. I use it as a replacement for the find file tool in windows. Locutus built its index MUCH quicker and searches are almost instantaneous.
I ordered some flash from Crucial yesterday and got charged local tax.
Just an FYI.
I'll have to agree with other posters on this one. Notes is one huge steaming pile. Not that I like Exchange (the server end is nasty), but the one thing that Microsoft does right is user-friendliness. In the business world, cost to train/lost productivity figures in heavily so this IS a big deal.
The coolest thing I have seen so far to challenge the Exchange model is the Suse Linux OpenExchange Server, but it still costs $1.5K.
Come on Mitch Kapor, we want Chandler!
On the Linux on the desktop: two suggestions
1.) Single user. Design it from the ground up for a single user and dump all the excess baggage.
2.) Dump the nastiness that is X. We don't need a client/server model for a GUI on single user desktop.
OceanStore is the UC Berkely project to do something like this, except a little more generalized. I run a freenet node and it isn't THAT slow. After the index built (had to leave it up for three days straight), the access are much quicker (prolly most of the data is local, now...ha). The slowdowns with FreeNet is in the Onion Routing and the encryption. Also, GNU has a project called GNUNet that has aims similar to FreeNets.
HyperThreading (as implemented by Intel...remember they didn't invent this idea) shares a single cache line among two virtual processors. This means if an application is cache hungry or doesn't play nice with HT, then it can monopolize the cache and starve the other threads. The P4 architecture revolves around a central idea: get as much data into the core as possible. That is why the cache size and bus speed changes with the P4 makes such a dramatic speed increase (as opposed to the Athlon). This is also why when there are HT problems, the speed drop can be terrible.
IBM passed on CMT (basically hyperthreading) due to these issues and decided on multicore/process level multiprocessing as more efficient.
Yeah, the model numbers refer to previous AMD Athlons. It was originally the 1.4 GHz model, but they had to readjust the numbers when the Athlon XP came out (they added full SSE support) and then again when the revision B Athlon XP came out (lowered latencies, core redesign). The Bartons number have been readjusted again because it has slightly better IPC than previous gens.
Actaully they said 1H 2003 after they said 4Q 2002 after they said 2001, etc...
Good lord, next thing you know nVidia is going to award a contract to BitBoys to make the next GeForce...ughh.
Just bomb Iraq already, I just don't care anymore...
They were using MetaFrame to push apps (as Citrix is supposed to do). Sorry if it sounded confusing. The idea was that we replaced the desktops with thin clients (we called them etch-a-sketches...heh), and the employess were given accessd to the network deployed apps they were supposed to have. The benefits were that the machines were virtually uncrashable (embedded thin-clients), the OS is virtually uncrashable (If one citrix instance craps out, another is spawned and little work is lost), anyone can get to their specific resources from anywhere in the system. I wish I knew more about Citrix, I was stunned at the flexibility.
Apparently, the only people who like this software are politicans. The Houston IT community is up in arms about this choice of software. They suggest using OpenOffice instead.
This software has been picked for Chicago and Phoenix, too.
The control of the desktop is core to many things in the enterprise. Companies are legally and financially responsible for everything that happens on, comes from, or comes into that PC in your cube. Because of this (and a litigeous society), the end user has no rights to his PC at all (in fact the end user has quite a few responsibilities).
Some graphic examples: employee ignores warnings of the day and opens that attachment (Code Red infection, firings, two lawsuits), employees (almost 100) keep installing Gator and webshots (eating bandwidth, causing security violations to HIPAA, etc.) so company switches to Citrix based desktops and thin clients, employees install unlicensed software and during Microsoft audit is discovered (loss of government contract, lots of firings, one federal arrest, lots and lots of fines, bankrupt business), etc.
So this is a very big deal.
Oh for christs sake, the damn thing is priced at ATI 9700 Pro prices. I have no idea why the prices are so high for Europe (sorry), maybe the original post is way out of date.
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What I would pay big money for is the XP GUI on top of linux/unix. As I sit here, I have a machine which is running the Lycoris distro and it comes close to the ease of use.
I have said it many times before, but I'll post it again: the world will be a much better place if everyone DUMPS X. X has no future on the average desktop which is where the OS battle is fought. Linux/Unix in the server world is fine, but there are few (Xandros, Lycoris, Ximian, etc) that are good enugh to be called desktop distros.
Now when Fresco, Chandler, Phoenix (which rocks), etc. all fully mature, I'll be a happy boy.
Or maybe Apple will get off their ass (aka Steve Jobs), and port MacOS X to x86. ah...to be a dreamer...