I'm sorry, I can't buy that 80% of internet traffic runs on sun machines. If Cisco claimed that, I'd believe it (and then some), but Sun just isn't the master of their domain anymore -- x86 hardware is just too cheap. I've worked at three ISPs, and only one has had a single sun box while the rest had dozens of Intel boxen.
You need to connect the (obviously metal) doorknobs and the elevator control panels to some hefty 220V relays which are controled by your own network management workstation...
The obvious first thing to do would be to suck a couple million blocks from the leaders on distributed.net... look for people using hotmail addresses, send them their password, read it, then assign their keys to another address. Now, this could certainly help Slashdot catch up with Guy Kawasaki and his playmates, but it might be a better way to get one's own participation in jeapordy.
4-5 years ago, when 1GB drives first started dropping under $1000, I would have laughed out loud at anyone who told me that you'd be able to buy a 4GB drive for under $100 by the end of the century, nor that new PCs would be shipping with 23+ gigs as standard. I have very little doubt that in 2 years, we'll see multi-terabyte drives shipping for consumer-friendly prices. Now, the solid state bit is an interesting spin, but think about it: 1. How much faster than 10K RPM can we spin drives? Not particularly that much before we have overheating and wear-and-tear issues to deal with. 2. Sure, we can have penny-sized CD that holds umpteen zigabytes of data, but when dealing with magnetic disks, we're going to run into physical issues soon with data density. 3. Power. 10K drives need more current than 7200 or 5400rpm ones, and to go faster we'll need to suck even more. In today's world of green PCs, faster conventional hard drives aren't gonna do it.
I think this article is completely legit. Granted, I'm all with CT on the "believe it when I see it" issue, but I don't think it's completely off-the-wall.
4-5 years ago, when 1GB drives first started dropping under $1000, I would have laughed out loud at anyone who told me that you'd be able to buy a 4GB drive for under $100 by the end of the century, nor that new PCs would be shipping with 23+ gigs as standard. I have very little doubt that in 2 years, we'll see multi-terabyte drives shipping for consumer-friendly prices. Now, the solid state bit is an interesting spin, but think about it: 1. How much faster than 10K RPM can we spin drives? Not particularly that much before we have overheating and wear-and-tear issues to deal with. 2. Sure, we can have penny-sized CD that holds umpteen zigabytes of data, but when dealing with magnetic disks, we're going to run into physical issues soon with data density. 3. Power. 10K drives need more current than 7200 or 5400rpm ones, and to go faster we'll need to suck even more. In today's world of green PCs, faster conventional hard drives aren't gonna do it. I think this article is completely legit. Granted, I'm all with CT on the "believe it when I see it" issue, but I don't think it's completely off-the-wall. -Chris
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But there *are* certain things people should learn about their computer to keep it running properly instead of running to someone else for help. I know that when the fuel gauge in my car says "E", then I have to go to a gas station and put in more gas. Lots of the anecdotes on the webpage in question are like people running out of gas, sitting in the middle of traffic, and expecting their car dealer to do something about it.
-Chris
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I think he means the last printout has been sitting stably on top of a win32 box. If you stack it well, and use a strong staple, you theoretically can do this on any platform. I strongly recommend low-profile pizza box desktop cases (for example, Sun Sparcs) because they're easier to stack things on (with any degree of stability).
I've had enough of hearing the excuse of only wanting one song on a CD as a reason to pirate it. I don't listen to many bands putting out music these days, but I can't imagine that an album is just a random collection of songs. Albums are supposed to be carefully crafted around a theme or sound. Look at Pink Floyd, U2, or The Who. If you grab any of their albums and listen all the way through -- ignore the fact that you've only heard one or two of the tracks on the radio -- there's a good thing going between all the songs. I seriously doubt bands these days are so desperate to "make it" that they worry entirely about the one single that the record label will release to radio stations (because God knows that will be the only song people will like... they must have better taste than normal human beings) than the rest of their CD. People need to learn to deal with the fact there are OTHER SONGS on a CD than the one that you've heard on Z100, WHFS, KROC, or MTV. And some of it doesn't suck. -Chris
PPC, Alpha, etc may be technically supperior to Intel, but Intel will be winning for quite a while. Forget price/performance issues. It doesn't matter what the latest and greatest machines cost... people use what they have. Period. I have a dozen Intel boxen around that I use because I don't have to spend money on them -- I *have* spent it. Money that's been spent doesn't matter anymore. I've got boxes for development, for gaming, for serving. I'll keep using them for a long time. Other people will be using their Intel boxen for a long time. It doesn't matter that the market may suddenly swell a little with new PPCs that are less expensive than Apple boxes; it still entails SPENDING money instead of using what we already have.
Of course, if IBM wanted to really be sneaky, they'd arrange for a few mobo developers to give away boards (and systems) to the open source community to spark more software development and interest in the platform. If someone gave me a new machine, I'd certainly help code for it.:)
Screw the negative moderation. This doesn't feel like news. If I wanted to ask people questions, or read other people's questions being answered by them, I'd find dialogs from AOL chats.
I was so proud of my 200-some day uptime on my one 2.0.36 box that I didn't reboot it after installing 2.2.9 or.10 (I forget which). Then the power went out at my colo and it came back up as a 2.2 box. Oh well c'est la vie. Next time, I'll put it on a UPS.:)
You'd think that a web-based information dispersal site like slashdot wouldn't fall prey to the "trendiness" of traditional media. We're all geek enough to know about Y2K and related issues -- like why it is a problem and why it isn't.
What could possibly be tied to dates in a nuclear power plant? Let's think about this. The most obvious is monitoring equipment... okay, so the logs show the wrong year on them. Whoever goes to read them and say "oh, nothing interesting happened" will be able to compensate for that.
Now, let's say that the system is date-controlled to automatically raise the output levels a bit around, say, christmas and thanksgiving. Okay, so they miss by a few days since the calendar doesn't quite line up. Or, if it's time sensitive, then the evening power boost comes at 9 PM because daylight savings time started on the wrong day.
Give me a break, critical systems in a nuclear power plant (in the US, anyway) are well constructed by people who have to answer to some of the most paranoid freaks in the world: the public. If Greenpeace wasn't down with your computer controlled nuclear plant, it wouldn't have been built.
Now that we've all taken a moment to recover from the initial shock of worrying about waking up on that fateful saturday with our house glowing, take a moment for a DEEP BREATH and a reality check. (Of course, we *will* all have to get up that saturday to go to work and try to find backup tapes so we can reinstall the systems that died overnight and we've called the manufacturer to dropship newer ones...)
-Chris The world can't end on 1/1/2000. 1/6/2000, though is a Thursday... that's what we need to worry about.
You don't need "mind-expansion" or "rock and beats" if you're so deaf after the second song you can't even hear the band.:)
Besides, playing a guitar through 15 different effects so that you achieve the net result of a cat caught in a vacuum cleaner isn't ORIGINAL... my grandma could figure that out. Pleasing fans with the greatest rock ballads of all time is something else.
Plus: you think Trent Reznor or Marilyn Manson are all about "teen angst"? Forget that. Look at who was destroying guitars long before Paul Stanley put on his platform shoes and makeup.
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I'm sorry, I can't buy that 80% of internet traffic runs on sun machines. If Cisco claimed that, I'd believe it (and then some), but Sun just isn't the master of their domain anymore -- x86 hardware is just too cheap. I've worked at three ISPs, and only one has had a single sun box while the rest had dozens of Intel boxen.
-Chris
You need to connect the (obviously metal) doorknobs and the elevator control panels to some hefty 220V relays which are controled by your own network management workstation...
>clickety click
...Time to get back to xtank.
-Chris
I want to know when the ip stack will be multithreaded. Make sure the parent is a five! :)
(okay, I'm going to get reamed on points myself, but it's worth it)
-Chris
The obvious first thing to do would be to suck a couple million blocks from the leaders on distributed.net... look for people using hotmail addresses, send them their password, read it, then assign their keys to another address. Now, this could certainly help Slashdot catch up with Guy Kawasaki and his playmates, but it might be a better way to get one's own participation in jeapordy.
-Chris
"So, we meet again at last. When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master."
Translate it through portugese. You may want to hit "Stop" after the tenth translation or so, you'll be able to figure out the pattern by then.
-Chris
4-5 years ago, when 1GB drives first started dropping under $1000, I would have laughed out loud at anyone who told me that you'd be able to buy a 4GB drive for under $100 by the end of the century, nor that new PCs would be shipping with 23+ gigs as standard.
I have very little doubt that in 2 years, we'll see multi-terabyte drives shipping for consumer-friendly prices. Now, the solid state bit is an interesting spin, but think about it:
1. How much faster than 10K RPM can we spin drives? Not particularly that much before we have overheating and wear-and-tear issues to deal with.
2. Sure, we can have penny-sized CD that holds umpteen zigabytes of data, but when dealing with magnetic disks, we're going to run into physical issues soon with data density.
3. Power. 10K drives need more current than 7200 or 5400rpm ones, and to go faster we'll need to suck even more. In today's world of green PCs, faster conventional hard drives aren't gonna do it.
I think this article is completely legit. Granted, I'm all with CT on the "believe it when I see it" issue, but I don't think it's completely off-the-wall.
-Chris
4-5 years ago, when 1GB drives first started dropping under $1000, I would have laughed out loud at anyone who told me that you'd be able to buy a 4GB drive for under $100 by the end of the century, nor that new PCs would be shipping with 23+ gigs as standard. I have very little doubt that in 2 years, we'll see multi-terabyte drives shipping for consumer-friendly prices. Now, the solid state bit is an interesting spin, but think about it: 1. How much faster than 10K RPM can we spin drives? Not particularly that much before we have overheating and wear-and-tear issues to deal with. 2. Sure, we can have penny-sized CD that holds umpteen zigabytes of data, but when dealing with magnetic disks, we're going to run into physical issues soon with data density. 3. Power. 10K drives need more current than 7200 or 5400rpm ones, and to go faster we'll need to suck even more. In today's world of green PCs, faster conventional hard drives aren't gonna do it. I think this article is completely legit. Granted, I'm all with CT on the "believe it when I see it" issue, but I don't think it's completely off-the-wall. -Chris
But there *are* certain things people should learn about their computer to keep it running properly instead of running to someone else for help. I know that when the fuel gauge in my car says "E", then I have to go to a gas station and put in more gas. Lots of the anecdotes on the webpage in question are like people running out of gas, sitting in the middle of traffic, and expecting their car dealer to do something about it.
-Chris
Uhh.. that'd be cachedot.slashdot.org, I imagine.
-Chris
"Judas Priest is Gates"
I think he means the last printout has been sitting stably on top of a win32 box. If you stack it well, and use a strong staple, you theoretically can do this on any platform. I strongly recommend low-profile pizza box desktop cases (for example, Sun Sparcs) because they're easier to stack things on (with any degree of stability).
-Cghris
Those of us who use laptops and/or crappy speakers certainly can't tell the difference between 16kbps mono and 128kbps stereo.
:P )
Nor those of us who still listen to vinyl. (It DOES sound better, you know...
-Chris
I've had enough of hearing the excuse of only wanting one song on a CD as a reason to pirate it. I don't listen to many bands putting out music these days, but I can't imagine that an album is just a random collection of songs. Albums are supposed to be carefully crafted around a theme or sound. Look at Pink Floyd, U2, or The Who. If you grab any of their albums and listen all the way through -- ignore the fact that you've only heard one or two of the tracks on the radio -- there's a good thing going between all the songs. I seriously doubt bands these days are so desperate to "make it" that they worry entirely about the one single that the record label will release to radio stations (because God knows that will be the only song people will like... they must have better taste than normal human beings) than the rest of their CD. People need to learn to deal with the fact there are OTHER SONGS on a CD than the one that you've heard on Z100, WHFS, KROC, or MTV. And some of it doesn't suck. -Chris
PPC, Alpha, etc may be technically supperior to Intel, but Intel will be winning for quite a while. Forget price/performance issues. It doesn't matter what the latest and greatest machines cost... people use what they have. Period. I have a dozen Intel boxen around that I use because I don't have to spend money on them -- I *have* spent it. Money that's been spent doesn't matter anymore. I've got boxes for development, for gaming, for serving. I'll keep using them for a long time. Other people will be using their Intel boxen for a long time. It doesn't matter that the market may suddenly swell a little with new PPCs that are less expensive than Apple boxes; it still entails SPENDING money instead of using what we already have.
:)
Of course, if IBM wanted to really be sneaky, they'd arrange for a few mobo developers to give away boards (and systems) to the open source community to spark more software development and interest in the platform. If someone gave me a new machine, I'd certainly help code for it.
-Chris
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Screw the negative moderation. This doesn't feel like news. If I wanted to ask people questions, or read other people's questions being answered by them, I'd find dialogs from AOL chats.
-Chris
This lady walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "I'd like a Double Entendre."
So he gives it to her.
-Chris
What kind of RC5 rate do you think...
oh just forget it.
-Chris
I was so proud of my 200-some day uptime on my one 2.0.36 box that I didn't reboot it after installing 2.2.9 or .10 (I forget which). Then the power went out at my colo and it came back up as a 2.2 box. Oh well c'est la vie. Next time, I'll put it on a UPS. :)
-Chris
Nice try, but I imagine /. is out of his jurisdiction. I doubt kibo will reply.
-Chris
(hey, if you get a response from him, i want one too)
Linux may suck, but ol' kevin certainly won't be able to decide for himself for a few more years...
-Chris
Don't you get it? Americans are so far behind the educational level of the rest of the first world countries that it's a socioeducational commentary.
Well, that and "Long Live Big Brother."
-Chris
You'd think that a web-based information dispersal site like slashdot wouldn't fall prey to the "trendiness" of traditional media. We're all geek enough to know about Y2K and related issues -- like why it is a problem and why it isn't.
What could possibly be tied to dates in a nuclear power plant? Let's think about this. The most obvious is monitoring equipment... okay, so the logs show the wrong year on them. Whoever goes to read them and say "oh, nothing interesting happened" will be able to compensate for that.
Now, let's say that the system is date-controlled to automatically raise the output levels a bit around, say, christmas and thanksgiving. Okay, so they miss by a few days since the calendar doesn't quite line up. Or, if it's time sensitive, then the evening power boost comes at 9 PM because daylight savings time started on the wrong day.
Give me a break, critical systems in a nuclear power plant (in the US, anyway) are well constructed by people who have to answer to some of the most paranoid freaks in the world: the public. If Greenpeace wasn't down with your computer controlled nuclear plant, it wouldn't have been built.
Now that we've all taken a moment to recover from the initial shock of worrying about waking up on that fateful saturday with our house glowing, take a moment for a DEEP BREATH and a reality check. (Of course, we *will* all have to get up that saturday to go to work and try to find backup tapes so we can reinstall the systems that died overnight and we've called the manufacturer to dropship newer ones...)
-Chris
The world can't end on 1/1/2000. 1/6/2000, though is a Thursday... that's what we need to worry about.
Mom: "Junior, I just found this right next to the remote. I loaded it up and it was 'Cheerleader Orgy Fest 2004'. What do you have to say about it?"
Junior: "It's not mine! One of the guys lost it here when we were watching HDTV! I swear!"
-Chris
You don't need "mind-expansion" or "rock and beats" if you're so deaf after the second song you can't even hear the band. :)
Besides, playing a guitar through 15 different effects so that you achieve the net result of a cat caught in a vacuum cleaner isn't ORIGINAL... my grandma could figure that out. Pleasing fans with the greatest rock ballads of all time is something else.
Plus: you think Trent Reznor or Marilyn Manson are all about "teen angst"? Forget that. Look at who was destroying guitars long before Paul Stanley put on his platform shoes and makeup.
-Chris