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  1. cpu utilization - how big is the pig? on Mixing Gigabit, Copper, and Linux · · Score: 1

    How much of the CPU was used during the benchmarks? It would be nice if the benchmark reported it. I don't know if netpipe can do this, but if it cannot, measuring it externally will have to do.

    Knowing this value can help measure the efficiency of the hardware and the device driver. For all things equal (data throughput / price ) -- a solution that uses the least amount of CPU is the most attractive to me. In a server environment this may be even more important than the raw throughput #'s.

  2. Netpliance / Watch for their next incarnation on Netpliance Pays Up For False Advertising And More · · Score: 1

    Netpliance's stock price is at about 40 cents
    a share and they are basically sitting on the
    remainder of their IPO money in the bank. The
    $100,000 figure seems rather paltry compared to
    how they swindled both their I-Opener users AND
    their investors. Be on the look out for this
    company to reinvent itself with the Netpliance
    IPO seed money.

  3. Industrial Espionage on Different View Of MS Code Theft · · Score: 1

    Guess 1: Some MSFT employees are intentionally working on distributing MSFT source code to equalize the playing field in the new information economy. They are actually working for third world governments.

    Guess 2: Because of the importance of the Internet and its operation, Cisco(or any other mainline router company) has employees who will/have intentionally designed in ASIC router "bugs" that will be exploited in a Cyberterrorism threat.

    Guess 3: This will happen over and over again. The more important that the Internet is to global competition and economic well-being, employees will be "co-opted" into destroying the internals of their "Internet Proprietary" systems through backdoors.

  4. FOOSBALL Playing Robot!!! on Computer Will Take On Formula 1 Champion · · Score: 2

    I'd rather these guys did something worthy.

    I'd pay good money if some robotics genius could invent a machine that I could hook up to a standard Tornado foosball table that could beat me in Foosball. I'll pitch in some starter money if anyone cares to help on starting a challenge for a FOOSBALL ROBOT vs MAN contest.

  5. Intel's done this before on P2P Developers Stand Up To Intel · · Score: 1

    Being present at IDF's before. Intel used this control methodology with I20 (stillborn IO processor scheme) and is currently using it with the Infiniband development. This will not work for software technology!!!!

  6. Re:Who cares, it's SCO : I CARE!!! on SCO Makes Open Source Contributions · · Score: 1

    I care. I don't use SCO but my opinion of this act of donation is that they did a damn good thing. I love this tool and appreciate the release, Thank you SCO.

  7. Failed Business Model on Is Netpliance Slamming Customers? · · Score: 1

    I read in one of the IPO reviews that Netpliance only had $26000 in revenue from subscriptions in
    the year in 1999. If your company had gone IPO, needed to show revenue growth and were in this
    kind of predicament, I bet you would start pondering unethical business practices also.

  8. Re:Carrey More of a Legend???? on Review: Man On The Moon · · Score: 1

    What confuses Katz and most people about Kaufman was his style of comedy. Jim Carrey is basically a supercharged "Rich Little" on speed, (yes he is a rehash).

    Andy Kaufman was something no one had seen before his time. He LIVED comedy and every part of his life was part of the act. His willingness to stretch all the boundaries of performance art and never leave the stage (since the stage was his life) is what the comedians around him admired.

  9. Re:That's funny on Review: Man On The Moon · · Score: 1

    I agree. "Childish book report kind of way" explains the review in a nutshell. Jon Katz is not much of a movie critic and he should stay out of this domain. His personal tastes are null and void.

  10. Re:How does this technology work? on Gigabyte Modems over Electric Lines · · Score: 1

    It doesn't. This is a Con Job by Media Fusion.

  11. Re:Interphase FC Card on Ask Slashdot: Linux and Fibre Channel Storage Systems · · Score: 1

    Let me correct myself. The drivers mentioned are available. The Interphase driver is for 2.0.36/37 and 2.2.9/2.2.10. The UNH driver works on 2.2.9.

  12. Interphase FC Card on Ask Slashdot: Linux and Fibre Channel Storage Systems · · Score: 1

    The Interphase Fibre Channel Adapter (5526) will have 2 different drivers for Linux support.

    UNH has developed an independent driver that will be posted on their website, and I will be providing an Interphase supported driver soon.

    The Interphase supported driver/hw is being used at the Univ. of Minn. GFS research project. Interested/serious beta site users can send email to mark@iphase.com.

  13. Conspicuously Absent on UDI spec 0.90 available for review · · Score: 1

    This question was posed at the Intel Developers Forum. The answer was to the effect "they could, but we haven't heard from them". Will MSFT participate, don't bet on it.

  14. UDI Spec for Linux? on UDI spec 0.90 available for review · · Score: 2

    At the Intel Developer's Forum, Intel announced
    that they would be working on a Linux UDI implementation. Intel seems to be very supportive
    of UDI.

  15. CNN Where are you? on Linux on CNN · · Score: 1

    What exactly was the purpose of that stupid article by Hayes from CNN? The secret is that Linux is just "software"????

    Hey you dumbass!!!

    The secret to Linux/Open Source is that there are no secrets. Secrets are something that those mf's at Microsoft bundle up and sell. Yes, nothing more than a secret. Good software can be written buy Internet communities and not be a secret. I suspect that his motivation for writing the article is more than an unbiased point of view.