i am just curious why they are just going to build their next backbone with scaling up to 80 10gbps lambdas. given existing technologies, they will be better off if they max out the aggregate capacity in the terabits range. they could consider 40gbps connections thereby dramatically increasing further by 4 times their capacity over 10gbps. given that they use up the 10gbps bandwidth today, then 100gbps of initial capacity may not be enough given that it is now easier to enable computers with 10gbps connections.
the article does not provide much technical details and may be subject to changes once they finalize the decision. factors such as them leasing the actual dark fiber, putting their own (or the telco) optical switches, and of course financial matters may affect their decision. but i hope they may be successful in the upgrade.:)
i mean with the initial benchmarks out for their new architecture, i think amd maybe trying to reduce the advantage of intel by releasing some products early.:)
i hope to get a processor wars soon (and hopefully, motherboard, chipset, memory, etc.) so everything will go faster and better while price drops.:)
if most people will leave outside of the rush hour, then i guess, they will all be stuck in the same type of rush hour traffic and this will no longer be true.
maybe there should be a way where offices are opened and closed gradually. maybe like schools be open at 7, government offices at 7:30, manufacturing at 8:00, others at 8:30. (i am not sure about the volume of traffic for each segment but you get the idea.) closing time will be graduated too. i guess the problem is with the peak loads. distribute the surge and it will be better for everyone.
employers should try to consider telecommuting as much as possible in this case.
what kind of car is it? are you going to average different kinds of cars or just stick with a single brand/model/make? that will introduce more errors.:P
i guess you should wrap in emi shielding bag around the rfid to prevent unwanted readings. i read before of products available (like wallets) that are insulated to prevent just this from happening. maybe this is a practical solution to take at the moment.
but intel has not yet built in a memory controller. with the higher latency, it is able to get at par with amd processors. i would expect that speed will improve significantly if they would integrate it to their processor.
also, the new processors coming later this year i believe will have more performance gains and lower heat.
i'm just saying that intel still some bullets in spare to drive performance of the cpu.
and my last note, amd still doesn't make their own high end chipset and motherboard. you may have a good processor but the 3rd party motherboard and chipset sucks compared to the products intel manufactures. if only they can create one, probably i can see amd as a stable platform (well based on my friends' experiences with amd systems, their computers crash often compared to the intel boards.)
this is just the growth rate of linux and not the market share. i would like to see a full analysis of market share compared to other systems.
frankly speaking, 27.1% growth is pretty small for me. in absolute terms, it may be even measly in terms of numbers compared to the adoption of other countries. given the $11.8 million, i believe it should be way bigger than that given china's size.
i like the contextual search feature in ask.com. like search for apple allows you to narrow to to items such as apple fruit, apple tree, etc. it even gives suggestions for other search entries like banana, etc.
i may use their site over google. in google, you have to be descriptive about your search. i sometimes find it very difficult to describe my query that i fail to get results or get few returning results.
this is a very good opportunity for websites to clean themselves up by making it simple. sometimes, it sucks when simple items like menus and links are being done in flash and other complex scripting. it becomes cluttered and counter intuitive instead.
as far as security is concerned, i would prefer this is you will know if sites do try to run things in the browser that may be harmful to the computer. some of them may put in hidden ones that we might now know about.
i am just sad though that there is a workaround fix to this. i was hoping the confirmation will be permanent.:(
I just wonder what the reaction of the community will be if let say that the search be redirected to MSN, Yahoo, et al. Will it be something to the tune that they are getting "tainted money"?
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maybe they can be modified to be able to protect other harmful items such as radiation. then you will have to coat them instead of spending a thick layer of lead for example to remove it.
let say that you have multiple subnets, 192.168.0.x/24, 192.168.1.x/24, until 192.168.255.x/24 where all the router ip is at the start such as 192.168.0.1 (being the default gateway of each.)
is there something that eats up all the ip address such as a computer being a member of all the subnets? i want to prevent people from doing a static ip address (as it will result in ip address conflict). so that thing will listen for dhcp requests and will release the ip and assign it to the requesting terminal instead. this will force everyone to use dhcp and we can keep track of all users and their mac address since they need to register or they will not be able to connect to the network.
so in the scenario, let say a computer will assign itself the ip address 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3,... , 192.168.255.254. when it receives a dhcp request from a newly plugged computer (that is registered,) it will release 192.168.0.2 and it will assign the entry to the computer.
so fellow slashdotters, do you have other suggestions for preventing people from logging to a network (with switches) without being able to assign a static ip? (of course mac address filtering will not work as they can still put any ip address and access the network.) the 802.1x may also help but it is mainly for the security of the physical port and not the logical network.
1. increased security, it allows the disabling of all types of device attachment except for the keyboard and mouse. nobody can plug in a usb flash, cd-rom, etc. files are not easily exported from the corporate network.
2. from 1, it reduces risks for viruses as there are no more inputs.
3. from 1 as well, they can steal the monitor, keyboard, mouse, and breakout box, but the computer and data is not stolen.
4. increased availability, it allows for easy swapping of computers with just a click of the mouse. failure in a pc blade can be easily redirected to another. this is in contrast to a technician going to the site to fix the problem.
5. economical, multiple users can share in a single blade. reduces hardware costs.
6. space saving, end sites no longer have the bulky casing, just the keyboard, mouse, monitor, and a small box. (and of course, no noisy parts!)
7. from 6, since all the blades are crammed in a rack, it technically requires less space for hundreds of computers.
8. from 4 and 5, it is more economical as you don't have to buy individual high capacity ups and reduced cooling requirements. they are centralized in the datacenter. this comes with generators for backup.
9. from 4, no moving parts at the end user site.
10. from 8, in case of end site failures, data does not get lost as blades are still powered.
11. we can pass everything through our ip network much like voip with the same management. one plug to rule em all!
12. and a whole lot of other reasons.
anyway, they are not thin clients, they are merely remote kvm.
it's a good thing they had a deal with lenovo. though not sure if we can benefit from this since we get ibm for our computers. hmmm...
schools should facilitate young students to develop their own potential and find ways of doing self research and experimentation.
i for one can say that i have learned a lot in the i.t. industry not because of going to school and getting spoon fed but by doing self research and experimentation. if i just relied on learning, probably i will get a no brainer job and be bored for the rest of my life.
it's a good thing my parents bought a computer when i was a young boy. it's also good that they did not stop me from tinkering stuff (probably all the toys that i got was disassembled.) good thing the computer kept running after my experiments!
it's not about the grades. it's total crap that until now, schools try to quantify the intelligence of a person by assinging a number from 1-100. this does more harm than good and only measures a particular intelligence. kids get discouraged when they get low grades in a particular subject even though they are good in other aspects such as music, sports, etc. instead their talents get repressed on the way.
lastly, maybe the system of getting titles should be abolished. i don't think highly of people by their grades and status. there are lots of people who think that getting a engr., ph.d., m.d., et. al. or high grades that they become god. this is total bs - they can't even improve the lives of people around them.
isn't the cell processor similar to the itanium2 (please make corrections)? just find it weird that everybody seems to think that cell next generation of processors for everyone but suffers things that are the same itanium 2 which is criticized by the same people. anyway, just a thought.
amd just provides cpu with some network components, and flash (but joint venture).
intel provides everything as amd does but with other stuff such as chipsets (desktop, workstation, and server), network components (until 10gb!), wireless chips (wi-fi, wimax), i/o processors (which probably majority of raid controllers use), software (compilers) and a whole bunch of stuff that apple will probably not need such as optical components (transceivers), telecom components (voice, data, fax), and others in between.
this alone makes it technically and economically feasible to get everything like a one stop shop. it would be difficult to get cpu from amd, chipsets from nvidia, gpu from ati, manufacturing from asus, etc. this alone i think is the reason why dell doesn't even want to touch amd. with intel, you talk with one company that can supply majority of components. with amd, you talk to them supplying only a fraction of the entire pie. intel also has the capability of delivering all those chips in one go with amd now barely keeping up with demand. this is no different from fast food.
with apple diversifying their products from the pc, i believe they can get majority of products from intel. people in slashdot may laugh now but who's laughing years from now. we may see ipods with wifi/bluetooth and raid for protection. powerbooks with wimax. to probably extending it to make their own mobile phone.
i have a 3 x 17" lcd monitor workstation right now as a noc personnel. currently, it is still insufficient for space (but i can deal with the occassional switching.) this would be a good feature as i tend to open a lot of windows at the same time due to the increased number of things to monitor in times of trouble. by getting transparency, i can improve my productivity by getting to do putty at foreground with some transparency to a background status monitor. this will allow me to see instant changes in status without switching or having to look across the screen (believe me with 3 monitors, you have to move your eyes about and the mouse takes a longer time to move across the screen - but this drawback is worth it compared to doing it in single or double, which i used earlier - and i like to try a 2x2 grid of monitors as well or just 4 of them.)
Now, let's get prepared to rebut any Microsoft officials whenever they talk about the common "Total Cost of Ownership" as far as Linux is concerned.
we can make any conclusions about this. they just transferred from mainframes and unix boxes to linux. it would be better if they transferred to windows them transferred to linux so there can be a better comparison. and besides, there may be instances when microsoft software may have better tco than oss and vice-versa. i don't think there is a law (as in scientific laws) that states that oss is always cheaper in terms of tco than closed source software.
I only hope that China becomes a free country with as little bloodshed as possible. Killing the Politburo would probably suffice, although justice would demand the demise of thousands of the petty thugs as well.
being in china just a few months ago, it seems that everything is doing well there. sometimes i think that they are better off with their situation right now than being a 'free' country. it would probably be ok for me live there.
apparently the word free has a different meaning for countries like america and other developed countries. i mean look at how the usa reacts right now to china economically. the usa opposes buying unocal. the usa and eu are restricting garment imports from china. usa is forcing the valuation of the renminbi. yet, everytime the chinese restricts something, america complains. they are pushing to get more access to china but not the other way around. it looks like that free means that i can do whatever i want but prevent others from doing theirs.
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i am just curious why they are just going to build their next backbone with scaling up to 80 10gbps lambdas. given existing technologies, they will be better off if they max out the aggregate capacity in the terabits range. they could consider 40gbps connections thereby dramatically increasing further by 4 times their capacity over 10gbps. given that they use up the 10gbps bandwidth today, then 100gbps of initial capacity may not be enough given that it is now easier to enable computers with 10gbps connections.
:)
the article does not provide much technical details and may be subject to changes once they finalize the decision. factors such as them leasing the actual dark fiber, putting their own (or the telco) optical switches, and of course financial matters may affect their decision. but i hope they may be successful in the upgrade.
i mean with the initial benchmarks out for their new architecture, i think amd maybe trying to reduce the advantage of intel by releasing some products early. :)
:)
i hope to get a processor wars soon (and hopefully, motherboard, chipset, memory, etc.) so everything will go faster and better while price drops.
if most people will leave outside of the rush hour, then i guess, they will all be stuck in the same type of rush hour traffic and this will no longer be true.
maybe there should be a way where offices are opened and closed gradually. maybe like schools be open at 7, government offices at 7:30, manufacturing at 8:00, others at 8:30. (i am not sure about the volume of traffic for each segment but you get the idea.) closing time will be graduated too. i guess the problem is with the peak loads. distribute the surge and it will be better for everyone.
employers should try to consider telecommuting as much as possible in this case.
what kind of car is it? are you going to average different kinds of cars or just stick with a single brand/model/make? that will introduce more errors. :P
i guess not a lot of people would want to go to a shop and buy/rent videos. doing it in their homes will get them some privacy.
this is good. at least it will encourage physical activity in children and hopefully reduce risks of overweight and obesity.
i guess you should wrap in emi shielding bag around the rfid to prevent unwanted readings. i read before of products available (like wallets) that are insulated to prevent just this from happening. maybe this is a practical solution to take at the moment.
wow, i didn't know reading slashdot was that important. :P
but intel has not yet built in a memory controller. with the higher latency, it is able to get at par with amd processors. i would expect that speed will improve significantly if they would integrate it to their processor.
also, the new processors coming later this year i believe will have more performance gains and lower heat.
i'm just saying that intel still some bullets in spare to drive performance of the cpu.
and my last note, amd still doesn't make their own high end chipset and motherboard. you may have a good processor but the 3rd party motherboard and chipset sucks compared to the products intel manufactures. if only they can create one, probably i can see amd as a stable platform (well based on my friends' experiences with amd systems, their computers crash often compared to the intel boards.)
this is just the growth rate of linux and not the market share. i would like to see a full analysis of market share compared to other systems.
frankly speaking, 27.1% growth is pretty small for me. in absolute terms, it may be even measly in terms of numbers compared to the adoption of other countries. given the $11.8 million, i believe it should be way bigger than that given china's size.
i like the contextual search feature in ask.com. like search for apple allows you to narrow to to items such as apple fruit, apple tree, etc. it even gives suggestions for other search entries like banana, etc.
i may use their site over google. in google, you have to be descriptive about your search. i sometimes find it very difficult to describe my query that i fail to get results or get few returning results.
this is a very good opportunity for websites to clean themselves up by making it simple. sometimes, it sucks when simple items like menus and links are being done in flash and other complex scripting. it becomes cluttered and counter intuitive instead.
:(
as far as security is concerned, i would prefer this is you will know if sites do try to run things in the browser that may be harmful to the computer. some of them may put in hidden ones that we might now know about.
i am just sad though that there is a workaround fix to this. i was hoping the confirmation will be permanent.
I just wonder what the reaction of the community will be if let say that the search be redirected to MSN, Yahoo, et al. Will it be something to the tune that they are getting "tainted money"?
maybe they can be modified to be able to protect other harmful items such as radiation. then you will have to coat them instead of spending a thick layer of lead for example to remove it.
The interface is similar to the Outlook Web Access. No big deal.
let say that you have multiple subnets, 192.168.0.x/24, 192.168.1.x/24, until 192.168.255.x/24 where all the router ip is at the start such as 192.168.0.1 (being the default gateway of each.)
is there something that eats up all the ip address such as a computer being a member of all the subnets? i want to prevent people from doing a static ip address (as it will result in ip address conflict). so that thing will listen for dhcp requests and will release the ip and assign it to the requesting terminal instead. this will force everyone to use dhcp and we can keep track of all users and their mac address since they need to register or they will not be able to connect to the network.
so in the scenario, let say a computer will assign itself the ip address 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3,
so fellow slashdotters, do you have other suggestions for preventing people from logging to a network (with switches) without being able to assign a static ip? (of course mac address filtering will not work as they can still put any ip address and access the network.) the 802.1x may also help but it is mainly for the security of the physical port and not the logical network.
1. increased security, it allows the disabling of all types of device attachment except for the keyboard and mouse. nobody can plug in a usb flash, cd-rom, etc. files are not easily exported from the corporate network.
2. from 1, it reduces risks for viruses as there are no more inputs.
3. from 1 as well, they can steal the monitor, keyboard, mouse, and breakout box, but the computer and data is not stolen.
4. increased availability, it allows for easy swapping of computers with just a click of the mouse. failure in a pc blade can be easily redirected to another. this is in contrast to a technician going to the site to fix the problem.
5. economical, multiple users can share in a single blade. reduces hardware costs.
6. space saving, end sites no longer have the bulky casing, just the keyboard, mouse, monitor, and a small box. (and of course, no noisy parts!)
7. from 6, since all the blades are crammed in a rack, it technically requires less space for hundreds of computers.
8. from 4 and 5, it is more economical as you don't have to buy individual high capacity ups and reduced cooling requirements. they are centralized in the datacenter. this comes with generators for backup.
9. from 4, no moving parts at the end user site.
10. from 8, in case of end site failures, data does not get lost as blades are still powered.
11. we can pass everything through our ip network much like voip with the same management. one plug to rule em all!
12. and a whole lot of other reasons.
anyway, they are not thin clients, they are merely remote kvm.
it's a good thing they had a deal with lenovo. though not sure if we can benefit from this since we get ibm for our computers. hmmm...
i for one can say that i have learned a lot in the i.t. industry not because of going to school and getting spoon fed but by doing self research and experimentation. if i just relied on learning, probably i will get a no brainer job and be bored for the rest of my life.
it's a good thing my parents bought a computer when i was a young boy. it's also good that they did not stop me from tinkering stuff (probably all the toys that i got was disassembled.) good thing the computer kept running after my experiments!
it's not about the grades. it's total crap that until now, schools try to quantify the intelligence of a person by assinging a number from 1-100. this does more harm than good and only measures a particular intelligence. kids get discouraged when they get low grades in a particular subject even though they are good in other aspects such as music, sports, etc. instead their talents get repressed on the way.
lastly, maybe the system of getting titles should be abolished. i don't think highly of people by their grades and status. there are lots of people who think that getting a engr., ph.d., m.d., et. al. or high grades that they become god. this is total bs - they can't even improve the lives of people around them.
isn't the cell processor similar to the itanium2 (please make corrections)? just find it weird that everybody seems to think that cell next generation of processors for everyone but suffers things that are the same itanium 2 which is criticized by the same people. anyway, just a thought.
where's the 64-bit? :)
intel provides everything as amd does but with other stuff such as chipsets (desktop, workstation, and server), network components (until 10gb!), wireless chips (wi-fi, wimax), i/o processors (which probably majority of raid controllers use), software (compilers) and a whole bunch of stuff that apple will probably not need such as optical components (transceivers), telecom components (voice, data, fax), and others in between.
this alone makes it technically and economically feasible to get everything like a one stop shop. it would be difficult to get cpu from amd, chipsets from nvidia, gpu from ati, manufacturing from asus, etc. this alone i think is the reason why dell doesn't even want to touch amd. with intel, you talk with one company that can supply majority of components. with amd, you talk to them supplying only a fraction of the entire pie. intel also has the capability of delivering all those chips in one go with amd now barely keeping up with demand. this is no different from fast food.
with apple diversifying their products from the pc, i believe they can get majority of products from intel. people in slashdot may laugh now but who's laughing years from now. we may see ipods with wifi/bluetooth and raid for protection. powerbooks with wimax. to probably extending it to make their own mobile phone.
i have a 3 x 17" lcd monitor workstation right now as a noc personnel. currently, it is still insufficient for space (but i can deal with the occassional switching.) this would be a good feature as i tend to open a lot of windows at the same time due to the increased number of things to monitor in times of trouble. by getting transparency, i can improve my productivity by getting to do putty at foreground with some transparency to a background status monitor. this will allow me to see instant changes in status without switching or having to look across the screen (believe me with 3 monitors, you have to move your eyes about and the mouse takes a longer time to move across the screen - but this drawback is worth it compared to doing it in single or double, which i used earlier - and i like to try a 2x2 grid of monitors as well or just 4 of them.)
wow, now that's quite a lot of voice processing to do.
how about a b... cluster? hmpphh...
we can make any conclusions about this. they just transferred from mainframes and unix boxes to linux. it would be better if they transferred to windows them transferred to linux so there can be a better comparison. and besides, there may be instances when microsoft software may have better tco than oss and vice-versa. i don't think there is a law (as in scientific laws) that states that oss is always cheaper in terms of tco than closed source software.
apparently the word free has a different meaning for countries like america and other developed countries. i mean look at how the usa reacts right now to china economically. the usa opposes buying unocal. the usa and eu are restricting garment imports from china. usa is forcing the valuation of the renminbi. yet, everytime the chinese restricts something, america complains. they are pushing to get more access to china but not the other way around. it looks like that free means that i can do whatever i want but prevent others from doing theirs.
p.s. look at what happened to iraq.