Re:We don't seem to be the target audience here...
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"...in 1983 Microsoft made an equally risky decision to name its product after a term commonly used in the trade..."
wich term ? DoS ?
Sorry... could't resist;)
Well, it has to be a very very big acquisition...
A couple of year ago I set up a qmail server for handling the mail of a local ISP with about 30000 users (that's right, 30 thousands), and we used a dual cpu DELL poweredge, with only one cpu installed. The idea was to see if the box could handle the load, and eventually install the second CPU.
Well, the load never got above 0.30, so we saved the money for the second CPU.
And we are speaking of a PIII-500, no more.
I don't think is a good idea. We have enough problem on this planet with IIS (code red, nimda and so on) so I don't think that enabling that crappy piece of software with a vehicle launcher could be any good.
A medium-size company (200-300 employee) in Italy (where I live) is migrating their data on a SuSE linux + DB2 solution. They will use a couple of IBM server (dual or quad x86) in a failover configuration. You have also to consider that in Italy we have an high number of medium-sized company instead of a (relatively) low number of big companies; so the size of the company in question is quite big for our parameters.
Au Contraire !
Heat pumps works by reversing thermic cycle used in other thermic machines (thermoelectric power plant, for instance).
The typical rankine cycle used in power plant has an efficency of 0.25. That's mean that, if we use a reverse cycle, we get an efficency of 1/0.25=4=400%.
In other words, we move 4 joules from the "warm side" to the "cold side" spending just 1 joule.
Now, the rankine cycle is just an example. But, for the 2nd principle of thermodinamic, we can't have an efficency greater than 1 (100%) in a direct cycle.
And thus, we always get an efficency greater than 100% in the reverse cycle, wich is used in heat pumps.
If this sound counter-intuitive, note that we move energy "upstream", with great efficency, but this occours only because we inject energy in the system.
And no, we can't make perpetual motion machine out of this: the energy injected to reverse the natural flow of thermal energy is wasted !
The problem with 2.88mb floppy is in a conflict with a component introduced with the pentium processor (i think it was the the PCI bridge or something like that). In fact, they have been an option in 386 and 486 PC with VESA local bus. Now they are disappeared. In fact, in our company, we used 2.88 mb floppy to generate FAT filesystem image to be written in flash/eprom drive (yes, I know this thing sucks). We have tried to buy some disk last year, but NOBODY sell them anymore. We had to switch to a more intelligend sistem.
Great ! Microsoft is switching to Free Software (tm) Of course, using the Good Old (mt) Embrace & Extend(tm) tactic. Free as in "Free Beer" Free as in "Free Speech" Free as in "CD-Free" Nothing More !
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And my kids can't wait for Mozilla-the-Flamethrower...
Well, Your Mileage May Vary ;-)
2) Find someone willing to pay to wear penguin suite;
3) Profit !
(Sorry, couldn't resist ;-)
You *definitively* don't want to dig a chunnel near the most active volcano in europe (etna), do you ?
Never understimate the light side of the Source !
"...in 1983 Microsoft made an equally risky decision to name its product after a term commonly used in the trade..." wich term ? DoS ? Sorry... could't resist ;)
Well, it has to be a very very big acquisition... A couple of year ago I set up a qmail server for handling the mail of a local ISP with about 30000 users (that's right, 30 thousands), and we used a dual cpu DELL poweredge, with only one cpu installed. The idea was to see if the box could handle the load, and eventually install the second CPU. Well, the load never got above 0.30, so we saved the money for the second CPU. And we are speaking of a PIII-500, no more.
I don't think is a good idea.
We have enough problem on this planet with IIS (code red, nimda and so on)
so I don't think that enabling that crappy piece of software with a vehicle launcher
could be any good.
A medium-size company (200-300 employee) in Italy (where I live) is migrating their data on a SuSE linux + DB2 solution.
They will use a couple of IBM server (dual or quad x86) in a failover configuration.
You have also to consider that in Italy we have an high number of medium-sized company instead of a (relatively) low number of big companies;
so the size of the company in question is quite big for our parameters.
In other words, we move 4 joules from the "warm side" to the "cold side" spending just 1 joule.
Now, the rankine cycle is just an example. But, for the 2nd principle of thermodinamic, we can't have an efficency greater than 1 (100%) in a direct cycle. And thus, we always get an efficency greater than 100% in the reverse cycle, wich is used in heat pumps. If this sound counter-intuitive, note that we move energy "upstream", with great efficency, but this occours only because we inject energy in the system.
And no, we can't make perpetual motion machine out of this: the energy injected to reverse the natural flow of thermal energy is wasted !
Hey, what about an application to count votes ?
The problem with 2.88mb floppy is in a conflict with a component introduced with the pentium processor (i think it was the the PCI bridge or something like that). In fact, they have been an option in 386 and 486 PC with VESA local bus. Now they are disappeared. In fact, in our company, we used 2.88 mb floppy to generate FAT filesystem image to be written in flash/eprom drive (yes, I know this thing sucks). We have tried to buy some disk last year, but NOBODY sell them anymore. We had to switch to a more intelligend sistem.
Now, il only Apple could use this modified gene to bring us decent-sized hockey-pux.....
Great ! Microsoft is switching to Free Software (tm) Of course, using the Good Old (mt) Embrace & Extend(tm) tactic. Free as in "Free Beer" Free as in "Free Speech" Free as in "CD-Free" Nothing More !