If Linux's bottleneck was a non-multithreaded IP stack, wouldn't FreeBSD have similar problems? IIRC, the FreeBSD kernel is not multithreaded, so it would scale even worse than Linux on a multiprocessor server.
Does anyone have any FreeBSD web serving benchmarks?
Essentially, what Bell Labs is saying that you can't go any smaller then 5 atoms of silicon dioxide at the heart of the machine. As before, they are saying that this the limit-although this time it may veryw ell be true, with current materials.
Yes, Google only points to "mainstream" sites. I use Google most of the time, because I usually want the "main" source of information about something. If I want to find something obscure, I use Metacrawler, which searchs other search engines. It's like dredging the bottom of a lake to find all the dead bodies. If there are any dead bodies what so ever, then Metacrawler will find them. It's great.
Love-gety is still a better idea.
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Imagine the day when your wireless PDA acts like a detailed Love-gety.
When "in the ladder" does an MBA become necessary?
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I am a developer working part-time on a Masters in Computer Science. Down the line, I'm interested in becoming a 'dev lead', managing both people and projects, mostly from the development side. Are MBAs only appropriate for "middle managers" and above? All managers must know how their projects and decisions affect the company's bottom line, but at what level does MBA knowledge become necessary?
Everyone here is smart enough to know a room full of monkeys will not beat Kasparov. But what if both sides are played by huge groups of (non-cooperating) players?
I saw a cool demo at SIGGRAPH where the left side of the audience played Pong against the right side. Each person in the audience had a colored "wand" that a was read by a computer on the stage in real-time. Each wand was binary, having two different colors. The computer would calculate a general consensus, either "move paddle UP" or "move paddle DOWN". This sounds chaotic, but the audience learned to play smoothly very quickly!
On a more frightening note, that SIGGRAPH demo also featured an audience consensus driven Flight Simulator! Imagine airlines down-sizing their pilots to save money: "We'll just let the passengers fly the plane using their general consensus!";-D
I saw "Pirates of Silicon Valley" at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) last month. Don't worry. Bill Gates is depicted exactly how you want him. The film is actually pretty harsh. The only person lefted unscathed is Woz.
I read that Linus wanted "at least a year" of testing with a brand new ext3 FS before it became the next official Linux FS. If Linux 2.4 is to released in less than one year, how could "untested" ext3 still be part of that release? One of these things will have to surrender.
Microsoft and Linux have succeeded for the same reason: little innovation. It is easier and less risky to build a "second generation" copy of someone else's previous success. Linux copies and refines Unix. Microsoft copies everyone else.
For example, the non-innovative parts of IE5 are great: fast HTML rendering and other goodies. The Microsoft innovations "hanging off the side" all suck: Active Desktop, IE channels, ActiveX,...
Where's the open-source Visual Studio environment?
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I'm not trying to be a troll here. Are there any visual environments for Linux that compare to Microsoft's Visual Studio? gcc might be a fine compiler, but I cannot survive without my visual debugger to step through my C++ code.
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I just finished reading Scott Meyers' "Effective C++" and "More Effective C++". I can assure you that the C++ user is always wrong!;-) C++ is far too complex for mere mortals to grok. No surprise that so much "modern" software sucks!
(If you do program in C++, I highly recommend you read Scott Meyers' C++ books. They are indispensable.)
According to Netcraft's Web Server Survey, 57% of the web runs Apache in May 1999. IIS is at 23%. If Microsoft wanted to capture more marketshare, they could try to ease migration from Apache to an "enterprise solution" running NT/IIS. However, Microsoft has not done this. IIS insists on using tons of proprietary stuff like ASP.
Microsoft must know that people run Apache for good reasons and would never switch to NT/IIS. Also, if IIS allowed easy migration from Apache, then migration from IIS to would also be easy. Microsoft does not want to risk walking "near the edge" of open technologies.
I don't think we can blame Microsoft for Java's "failure". Sun has over-hyped, overpromised, and underdelivered late. Sun has played marketing games (ISO anyone?) but refuses to loosen their grip over Java code and standards.
I don't think Java has failed, though. It's must favorite language these days. It just hasn't delivered what Sun had promised..
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If Linux's bottleneck was a non-multithreaded IP stack, wouldn't FreeBSD have similar problems? IIRC, the FreeBSD kernel is not multithreaded, so it would scale even worse than Linux on a multiprocessor server.
Does anyone have any FreeBSD web serving benchmarks?
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Essentially, what Bell Labs is saying that you can't go any smaller then 5 atoms of silicon dioxide at the heart of the machine. As before, they are saying that this the limit-although this time it may veryw ell be true, with current materials.
Yes, Google only points to "mainstream" sites. I use Google most of the time, because I usually want the "main" source of information about something. If I want to find something obscure, I use Metacrawler, which searchs other search engines. It's like dredging the bottom of a lake to find all the dead bodies. If there are any dead bodies what so ever, then Metacrawler will find them. It's great.
Imagine the day when your wireless PDA acts like a detailed Love-gety.
I am a developer working part-time on a Masters in Computer Science. Down the line, I'm interested in becoming a 'dev lead', managing both people and projects, mostly from the development side. Are MBAs only appropriate for "middle managers" and above? All managers must know how their projects and decisions affect the company's bottom line, but at what level does MBA knowledge become necessary?
Everyone here is smart enough to know a room full of monkeys will not beat Kasparov. But what if both sides are played by huge groups of (non-cooperating) players?
;-D
I saw a cool demo at SIGGRAPH where the left side of the audience played Pong against the right side. Each person in the audience had a colored "wand" that a was read by a computer on the stage in real-time. Each wand was binary, having two different colors. The computer would calculate a general consensus, either "move paddle UP" or "move paddle DOWN". This sounds chaotic, but the audience learned to play smoothly very quickly!
On a more frightening note, that SIGGRAPH demo also featured an audience consensus driven Flight Simulator! Imagine airlines down-sizing their pilots to save money: "We'll just let the passengers fly the plane using their general consensus!"
I saw "Pirates of Silicon Valley" at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) last month. Don't worry. Bill Gates is depicted exactly how you want him. The film is actually pretty harsh. The only person lefted unscathed is Woz.
I read that Linus wanted "at least a year" of testing with a brand new ext3 FS before it became the next official Linux FS. If Linux 2.4 is to released in less than one year, how could "untested" ext3 still be part of that release? One of these things will have to surrender.
I remember Solaris uname would return SunOS 5. So if Solaris 2.6 is "SunOS 6", then Solaris 2.7 must be "SunOS 7"??
Anyways, "Solaris Seven" sounds cooler than "Solaris Two Point Seven".
He was talking about NT. The first version was NT 3.1, supposedly to be parallel to the regular Windows version numbers. That didn't last long!
Microsoft and Linux have succeeded for the same reason: little innovation. It is easier and less risky to build a "second generation" copy of someone else's previous success. Linux copies and refines Unix. Microsoft copies everyone else.
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For example, the non-innovative parts of IE5 are great: fast HTML rendering and other goodies. The Microsoft innovations "hanging off the side" all suck: Active Desktop, IE channels, ActiveX,
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I'm not trying to be a troll here. Are there any visual environments for Linux that compare to Microsoft's Visual Studio? gcc might be a fine compiler, but I cannot survive without my visual debugger to step through my C++ code.
Seems like everything he writes or "predicts" is hogwash. No matter how inevitable something is, if John Dvorak writes about it, it will fail. ;-)
This is an advertisement or anything, but I love the Motley Fool ( www.fool.com). It's an especially kind place for new investors. They have plenty of FAQs, analysis, and active message boards for every stock.
They also have a site called www.foolu.com targeted at students with questions about finances and investing.
I just finished reading Scott Meyers' "Effective C++" and "More Effective C++". I can assure you that the C++ user is always wrong! ;-) C++ is far too complex for mere mortals to grok. No surprise that so much "modern" software sucks!
(If you do program in C++, I highly recommend you read Scott Meyers' C++ books. They are indispensable.)
The early developers of Unix and the standard C library can't spell worth beans:
creat()
strcmp()
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According to Netcraft's Web Server Survey, 57% of the web runs Apache in May 1999. IIS is at 23%. If Microsoft wanted to capture more marketshare, they could try to ease migration from Apache to an "enterprise solution" running NT/IIS. However, Microsoft has not done this. IIS insists on using tons of proprietary stuff like ASP.
Microsoft must know that people run Apache for good reasons and would never switch to NT/IIS. Also, if IIS allowed easy migration from Apache, then migration from IIS to would also be easy. Microsoft does not want to risk walking "near the edge" of open technologies.
Unlike Unix, the Windows NT cmd shell does not require quotes around file names with spaces. For example, the following works:
C:\> cd program files
C:\Program Files>
How to install Linux on your Toshiba Libretto.
On my Windows 98 email machine, I averaged 1.2 crashes per day over a three week period.
My Windows NT Workstation development machine rarely "crashes", but it deadlocks, freezes, and hangs about three times per week.
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I don't think we can blame Microsoft for Java's "failure". Sun has over-hyped, overpromised, and underdelivered late. Sun has played marketing games (ISO anyone?) but refuses to loosen their grip over Java code and standards.
I don't think Java has failed, though. It's must favorite language these days. It just hasn't delivered what Sun had promised..
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ouch.. that hurts.