The Sith leak is actually comparable, as it was an "inside job". It probably isn't as if someone broke in and copied the movie, more likely an employee. If an employee of a small movie company can easily leak a movie, then employees of a massive government shouldn't have a problem.
It's actually a lot easier to lock down OS X, and the defaults are better set up. There is no administrator (root) account by default (can be enabled though), and anything needing those defaults to run requires the system password.
After a certain level of infringement, it becomes a criminal matter just by scale of infringement. Maybe it should be just a civil matter, but it isn't.
Consoles have had custom APIs, OSs and hardware for a long time, presumably to make a lean, optimum platform versus shoehorning a general purpose system. RISC chips have often had a lead in floating point performance as well. The chip itself is custom, so it could have a custom instruction set as well, they say it is PPC-based, not necessarily a PPC chip. It could be a stripped-down chip so they get the instruction set they need and throw out fancy stuff that slows down the chip.
Also, one thing I've seen speculated is that it might be another hedge against people hacking the system to run software not licenced to run on the machine. This is plausible if they obfuscate the code, although I really don't buy this argument.
I've always been using hot keys, in Windows, that would be ctrl-alt-c. The keyboards with those kinds of keys that you mention tend to be needlessly larger than a standard keyboard.
While an impressive feat, I don't think anyone really expected the Voyagers to go that far, even the designers. The technology to be able to listen to the probes at that distance probably didn't exist when Voyager was built.
I guess this is why I can't appreciate the news for telling me anything new now adays. Someone go develop a computer to report things without bias, then I'll be interested in reading the news.
HAL9000's voice is kind of dull. Does Skynet have an interesting voice?
So you don't think it is possible for a company to need an employee, and then some time later, not need that employee any longer? Employment shouldn't be considered a lifetime entitlement.
I really don't see a big issue with performance that way. I don't expect to run a RAID-5 with a failed drive for a long period of time. Given how rarely drives die, I don't expect that two of them would go down at the same time. I would have a backup for that circumstance anyway, as RAID is no substitute for a backup.
Yes, I remember Geeks in Space or whatever that was. That was a great precursor to the podcast idea. What it changes is that it is a whole lot more convenient to do these things, and much easier to keep up.
As noted elsewhere, the aggregator software automatically fetches the latest podcasts on all your selected feeds and can automatically insert them into your music player's library, and thus automatically put them on your portable audio player, even automatically adding the track into their respective show's playlists. On my iPod, I just play the "recently added" smart playlist and I will be able to listen to the latest podcasts as I drive or work.
Apple may have played a role earlier in the development of ARM processors, the current Xscale processors are direct descendants of Dec's StrongARM processor.
I dunno, the G5s can use a LOT of power. At full load, a dual 2.0 G5 is rated for 600W. At idle, the same system still consumes 120W. That is the reason that even the G5 "FX" (PPC 750FX?) uses the liquid cooling system for the 2.5 and 2.7 models. That said, for their compute power, these PMG5s are incredibly quiet. I have very quiet Xeon workstations and my PMG5 is faster and quieter than any of them.
It isn't tactical price gouging (I think you mean dumping?) if we pay more to make it than it costs to make. Dumping is where products are sold below cost to try to ruin an industry. The thing is, you don't need to dump to undercut US industries because the people doing the labor are doing it for peanuts.
Many Americans quit buying US made cars because they were poorly made and expensive, and the quality of US brand cars is still behind that of Japan. The only reason a lot of these Americans are buying American cars is because Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi, BMW (though German) and other brands are have been making cars in the US more recently (and even exporting them!), US workers managed by a non-retarded management system. Meanwhile the "US" brands have been importing cars from Canada, Mexico and other places, or using overseas cars, slapping a new badge on them and pretending to be a US car.
Uh, yeah, as others said, I would want to be doing RAID 5, not just stupid spanning. RAID-5 gives both redundancy and spanning multiple hard discs. RAID 0 is just spanning, which has no redundancy, which is why the number is zero, because it fails the "R" (redundant) part of RAID. RAID 1 is just mirroring, no spanning. RAID 0+1 mirrors and spans, but a 4 disk RAID-5 array has 50% more space than a 4 disk RAID 0+1
I don't know what the problem was that made SATA comparable to SCSI. There may very well be a limitation in the computer chosen. Also, the increased areal density of a large capacity 7200RPM drive allows the drive bandwidth to be competitive with a potentially lower density 10kRPM. The high RPM drives mostly have a benefit in seek times because the discs are about a third smaller in diameter
Yeah, that tariff was stupid. When the tariff started, I got a notice that steel prices were going up because of a chaotic marketplace. When the tariff ended, I got a notice that steel prices were going up because of a chaotic market. WTF? Good going, jerks. Basically I work at a small machine shop that sometimes farms out work to other shops.
IIRC, all of the Northwood P4 chips were fabbed in the US but were packaged overseas.
IBM makes some AMD, Power and PowerPC chips in New York. Some nVidia graphics chips were made there, but I think at least some of that work was redirected to Taiwan because IBM couldn't ramp up volume as promised.
I think the real surprise for me is that SW RAID is 95% as fast as HW RAID without the pricey board, not that SW RAID is slower.
Also, another surprise is that a SATA RAID (speed) performs about as well as a SCSI RAID. Whether SATA drives are as reliable is a different matter, but with the cost savings, it is easier to have more spare drives on hand.
From a system bus bandwidth perspective, it would seem that the chief difference between HW and SW RAID would be that SW RAID requires some more housekeeping bits, the biggest one being the data from the parity drive goes over the system bus for SW, but it stays local to the RAID controller for HW.
From a CPU perspective, for SW, the CPU would have to compute the XORs rather than offloading them to the dedicated hardware, which are compute cycles and pages that could be done for other tasks in a HW setup.
For me, the speed difference is kind of moot though. If I want RAID, it would be for the redundancy and spanning multiple drives, not speed. Also, I have systems with 64/66 PCI and a system with PCI-X, so that bus isn't an issue.
The two don't seem to serve much of an overlapping market anyway.
A computer without an optical drive? For external data expansion, I'd prefer Firewire over USB any day because Firewire supports DMA transfers, USB needs interrupts so it interrupts the CPU to move data, which can slow the computer down. It doesn't have a DVI port to allow digital flat panel links. DVI-I supports analog connnections too.
...Linux on Mac mini (or any Mac) won't support any built-in wireless hardware. I don't have any wireless hardware on my mini, but I can see that being important.
If a person wants a GUI-less Mac, it is possible to run OS X without the GUI as a text-only BSD variant. I forgot where I found the doc, I think you comment out one command in a script. I think that doc might be at the osxfaq site.
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The Sith leak is actually comparable, as it was an "inside job". It probably isn't as if someone broke in and copied the movie, more likely an employee. If an employee of a small movie company can easily leak a movie, then employees of a massive government shouldn't have a problem.
"You are a cute 20 that something redhead sitting over there in the corner. Damn I wish you'd close your iBook so I could talk to you." posts.
I really don't think that should stop a person from trying to talk anyway.
Very true.
It's actually a lot easier to lock down OS X, and the defaults are better set up. There is no administrator (root) account by default (can be enabled though), and anything needing those defaults to run requires the system password.
After a certain level of infringement, it becomes a criminal matter just by scale of infringement. Maybe it should be just a civil matter, but it isn't.
Whenever I think of the word "blog", somehow I associate it with some form of constipation.
I am not against that form of communication, if it can be called that, I think that word and its variants are cumbersome.
Consoles have had custom APIs, OSs and hardware for a long time, presumably to make a lean, optimum platform versus shoehorning a general purpose system. RISC chips have often had a lead in floating point performance as well. The chip itself is custom, so it could have a custom instruction set as well, they say it is PPC-based, not necessarily a PPC chip. It could be a stripped-down chip so they get the instruction set they need and throw out fancy stuff that slows down the chip.
Also, one thing I've seen speculated is that it might be another hedge against people hacking the system to run software not licenced to run on the machine. This is plausible if they obfuscate the code, although I really don't buy this argument.
I've always been using hot keys, in Windows, that would be ctrl-alt-c. The keyboards with those kinds of keys that you mention tend to be needlessly larger than a standard keyboard.
While an impressive feat, I don't think anyone really expected the Voyagers to go that far, even the designers. The technology to be able to listen to the probes at that distance probably didn't exist when Voyager was built.
I guess this is why I can't appreciate the news for telling me anything new now adays. Someone go develop a computer to report things without bias, then I'll be interested in reading the news.
HAL9000's voice is kind of dull. Does Skynet have an interesting voice?
So you don't think it is possible for a company to need an employee, and then some time later, not need that employee any longer? Employment shouldn't be considered a lifetime entitlement.
I really don't see a big issue with performance that way. I don't expect to run a RAID-5 with a failed drive for a long period of time. Given how rarely drives die, I don't expect that two of them would go down at the same time. I would have a backup for that circumstance anyway, as RAID is no substitute for a backup.
Yes, I remember Geeks in Space or whatever that was. That was a great precursor to the podcast idea. What it changes is that it is a whole lot more convenient to do these things, and much easier to keep up.
As noted elsewhere, the aggregator software automatically fetches the latest podcasts on all your selected feeds and can automatically insert them into your music player's library, and thus automatically put them on your portable audio player, even automatically adding the track into their respective show's playlists. On my iPod, I just play the "recently added" smart playlist and I will be able to listen to the latest podcasts as I drive or work.
I listen to them while I am driving or working. Some are very interesting, and some pick up news bits I never heard of.
For what it is worth, the Airport also uses a low end 486 processor.
Maybe some models, but this one uses an AMD microcontroller:
dead airport
Apple may have played a role earlier in the development of ARM processors, the current Xscale processors are direct descendants of Dec's StrongARM processor.
The wikipedia entry for StrongARM only mentions that Apple was a buyer of StrongARM chips from DEC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM
I dunno, the G5s can use a LOT of power. At full load, a dual 2.0 G5 is rated for 600W. At idle, the same system still consumes 120W. That is the reason that even the G5 "FX" (PPC 750FX?) uses the liquid cooling system for the 2.5 and 2.7 models. That said, for their compute power, these PMG5s are incredibly quiet. I have very quiet Xeon workstations and my PMG5 is faster and quieter than any of them.
It isn't tactical price gouging (I think you mean dumping?) if we pay more to make it than it costs to make. Dumping is where products are sold below cost to try to ruin an industry. The thing is, you don't need to dump to undercut US industries because the people doing the labor are doing it for peanuts.
Many Americans quit buying US made cars because they were poorly made and expensive, and the quality of US brand cars is still behind that of Japan. The only reason a lot of these Americans are buying American cars is because Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi, BMW (though German) and other brands are have been making cars in the US more recently (and even exporting them!), US workers managed by a non-retarded management system. Meanwhile the "US" brands have been importing cars from Canada, Mexico and other places, or using overseas cars, slapping a new badge on them and pretending to be a US car.
Uh, yeah, as others said, I would want to be doing RAID 5, not just stupid spanning. RAID-5 gives both redundancy and spanning multiple hard discs. RAID 0 is just spanning, which has no redundancy, which is why the number is zero, because it fails the "R" (redundant) part of RAID. RAID 1 is just mirroring, no spanning. RAID 0+1 mirrors and spans, but a 4 disk RAID-5 array has 50% more space than a 4 disk RAID 0+1
I don't know what the problem was that made SATA comparable to SCSI. There may very well be a limitation in the computer chosen. Also, the increased areal density of a large capacity 7200RPM drive allows the drive bandwidth to be competitive with a potentially lower density 10kRPM. The high RPM drives mostly have a benefit in seek times because the discs are about a third smaller in diameter
Yeah, that tariff was stupid. When the tariff started, I got a notice that steel prices were going up because of a chaotic marketplace. When the tariff ended, I got a notice that steel prices were going up because of a chaotic market. WTF? Good going, jerks. Basically I work at a small machine shop that sometimes farms out work to other shops.
IIRC, all of the Northwood P4 chips were fabbed in the US but were packaged overseas.
IBM makes some AMD, Power and PowerPC chips in New York. Some nVidia graphics chips were made there, but I think at least some of that work was redirected to Taiwan because IBM couldn't ramp up volume as promised.
I think the real surprise for me is that SW RAID is 95% as fast as HW RAID without the pricey board, not that SW RAID is slower.
Also, another surprise is that a SATA RAID (speed) performs about as well as a SCSI RAID. Whether SATA drives are as reliable is a different matter, but with the cost savings, it is easier to have more spare drives on hand.
From a system bus bandwidth perspective, it would seem that the chief difference between HW and SW RAID would be that SW RAID requires some more housekeeping bits, the biggest one being the data from the parity drive goes over the system bus for SW, but it stays local to the RAID controller for HW.
From a CPU perspective, for SW, the CPU would have to compute the XORs rather than offloading them to the dedicated hardware, which are compute cycles and pages that could be done for other tasks in a HW setup.
For me, the speed difference is kind of moot though. If I want RAID, it would be for the redundancy and spanning multiple drives, not speed. Also, I have systems with 64/66 PCI and a system with PCI-X, so that bus isn't an issue.
The two don't seem to serve much of an overlapping market anyway.
A computer without an optical drive? For external data expansion, I'd prefer Firewire over USB any day because Firewire supports DMA transfers, USB needs interrupts so it interrupts the CPU to move data, which can slow the computer down. It doesn't have a DVI port to allow digital flat panel links. DVI-I supports analog connnections too.
I guess I didn't read that part. Sorry
If you just want the form factor, how does a Mac mini it compare to a miniITX system?
...Linux on Mac mini (or any Mac) won't support any built-in wireless hardware. I don't have any wireless hardware on my mini, but I can see that being important.
If a person wants a GUI-less Mac, it is possible to run OS X without the GUI as a text-only BSD variant. I forgot where I found the doc, I think you comment out one command in a script. I think that doc might be at the osxfaq site.