Though as databases (at least DB2) use this technique already, maybe databases will not see any improvements at all. Prefetching, sequential I/O detection, elevator seeks, aynch and parallel I/O... already in there, esp. on raw devices. On files you still have fragmentation issues. Maybe it will help there.
In OS/2 Warp4 with ViaVoice (in the bonus pak) you could start and stopp programs, navigate through them and even have it type text. It wasn't perfect, but it worked pretty good.
GPFS (General Parallel File System) from IBM can do this, runs on AIX and Linux. No Windows and quite expensive and not suitable for the casual home user.
Sorry!! Shouldn't post this early in the morning, didn't even have my towel with me. His head is a normal size (as normal as anything on Marvin is of course), it's only the brain that's the size of a planet.
eFTP, KWQ, PMMail, PMView, PMJPEG, ObjectDesktop, GalCiv, RSJ CD Writer... Several of these are available on Windows too (PMView, PMMail, ObjectDesktop, GalCiv, RSJ)... and PMView could pop up on Linux too in a year or two. Worth waiting for imho.
Sorry about this walk down memory lane, but I couldn't help it.
You brought back memories of the DeScribe wordprocessor... originally on OS/2 (later also on Windows) it provided you with many page layout features. When you started with a "blank" sheet, you were actually in a text-frame.
>No! They are not even close to being in the same galaxy as "more >correct". Within the context of the computer world, >1K = 1024 or 2^10 >1M = 1048576 or 2^20 >1G = 1073741824 or 2^30 >1T = 1099511627776 or 2^40
It's easy to underestimate the sheer power of having your own IT department capable of fixing the operating system bugs, adding core features, collaborating, and shareing the source with brilliant volunteers rabidly eager to sink their teeth into the next big challenge, free of charge.
This is for the enterprise. The world of pointy-haired managers an PFY in the IT department. Do you really think that managers get's happy-happy thoughts of the PFYs changing code in the RDBMS system? or the kernel on their USD 100 million server? where they will loose USD 2 million each hour the system is down?
I love OSS as much as anyone, but the enterprise just isn't ready to chuck out their mainframes with DB2 or Suns with Oracle.
Though they are considering Linux on their mainframe, so there's hope yet:)
Really? Three "Enterprise" OS? RedHat, UnitedLinux and Windows?
Bah!
None of them are really ready for the enterprise. What if they compared Unix (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris) with z/OS (MVS) or OS/400?
Linux and Windows are still condenders, imho. They have their uses in parts of an "Enterprise", but are any of them ready to kick out the operating systems that sits at the heart of todays very large corporations?
To quote from your link: --------
To the chagrin of Democratic partisans, the consortium proclaimed Bush still would have won the apparently limited statewide recount underway last December 9 even if the U.S. Supreme Court had not swooped in and stopped it. But if all disputed ballots had been manually counted?something, ironically, neither side had even asked for?Al Gore could have eked out a narrow victory. --------
So we're both right.:)
But as I've said in another post: it is only the paper trail the enabled this audit in the first place. OTOH, without tha ballot notes the whole mess would probably not have surfaced.
> recount as being a lot more involved than just a simple > recounting of ballots
True. They had to evaluate the ballot itself. Was the punched hole outside one of the candidates. Did it have multiple holes. What was the intention etc... as you said:)
But still my point it that they had a paper trail. Messy as it was.
The voting system is the backbone of a democratic system. This is the number one indicator that a nation has taken the step forward and joined the democratic fold.
It needs to be auditable. It needs to be verifyable. To the full extent.
Look at the mess in Florida in the last US presidential elections. The system there worked as everything was on paper, so they just needed to go through all the ballot notes and re-count and re-evaluate them. After the extensive re-counts and press and public auditing of the result, it was found to be correct.
How can you do that audit if you don't know the system? And the only way to know a computer based system is to have all the information about it available, including source code.
Absolutely true -- especially for desktop applications. But unfortunately this coding style also seeps down to server and client/server apps. And there bloat and poor design performance-wise really hurts you.
When your USD 5 million web site collapses because the back-end system cannot handle the transaction load when everybody wants to purchase easter bunnies (RSN).
Developers takes the bad habbits with them much too often.
Politics... why can't we live in peace without that damned politics?
I bet those politicians are now drooling when they think about all the extra votes they will get in the next poll. The Romans really had it right. Let the plebs live their own lives, give them bread and circus and they will stay happy and ignorant.
Should they ban Quake type games too now? What about military flight simulators? What about strategy games where military action is a part of the game? Why not ban all computer games except the original Tetris?
The war in the gulf is underway. That's a reality. They should adjust to it and make sure that it is over as soon as possible with as little civilian casualities as possible. Do they think they can get the coalition to just back off and go home?
GalCiv for OS/2 had "Shipyards for GC" where you could design your own ships. It was planned to include this in GalCiv for Windows, but I'm not sure if it's there.
I'm really looking forward to this on Windows, one fo my fav games ever (apart from Harpoon:)
It was part of the pre-ISDN testing. They added white noise so you get a feedback that the line is "active". It is the phone itself that adds it. "Sidetone" is what we call it in my language anyway:)
Well, let's say 50fps just to have a number. You can spot a difference from 30fps to 50fps depending on how you view the output (crt, lcd, projector, broadcast, cinema... whatever).
But still, the reason for 100+ fps is that you need that extra speed when the scene is complex; 8 players, 12 monsters, 56 light sources, 93MB of textures, 1000+ objects.... then even a GeforceFX or Radeon9700 could drop down fps to noticable levels.
>"we have good, smart people, but other companies do too. >The real key to uptime is the processes you use"
Instead of chasing a tail: Yes, I agree.
Put it in another way: Use smart processes. Use them to accomplish clear goals. Don't use them as a reason to make more foils or Powerpoint presentations.
One reason why I prefer the old tactile click keyboards. You know, the big, heavy, noisy IBM PC keyboards... Key stroke lenght is longer, a physical "click" that gave you feedback when a key was pressed so you knew: 1. that key is pressed 2. no need to push that finger down further.
Too bad they don't make them like that anymore. Now it's just soft&silent-. Bah:)
> Processes are the way policies are implemented [snip]
Yes. And some managers falls into the trap of using them to control office policies. Basically a process should be documented on one page at the most (not including procedure docs of course). It's just a high level description of information flow. But today some people make a career out of writing, updateing and auditing Processes. It's one more piece in the Empire Building Process.
And as you mentioned ISO-9000; ISO-9000 does not define how complex processes should be. Just that you have defined them, documented them and that they are followed. So the simpler they are the easier it it to get through an ISO audit. Also it will give the company more flexibility when they follow the processes.
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Though as databases (at least DB2) use this technique already, maybe databases will not see any improvements at all. Prefetching, sequential I/O detection, elevator seeks, aynch and parallel I/O... already in there, esp. on raw devices. On files you still have fragmentation issues. Maybe it will help there.
Liar? Been asleep the entire 90's?
In OS/2 Warp4 with ViaVoice (in the bonus pak) you could start and stopp programs, navigate through them and even have it type text. It wasn't perfect, but it worked pretty good.
GPFS (General Parallel File System) from IBM can do this, runs on AIX and Linux. No Windows and quite expensive and not suitable for the casual home user.
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Sorry!! Shouldn't post this early in the morning, didn't even have my towel with me. His head is a normal size (as normal as anything on Marvin is of course), it's only the brain that's the size of a planet.
Marvin like Bender? How can that be? Marvin has a head the size of a planet!
LOL! So you bought the hype :)
HypeThreading doesn't really buy you that much. -10% to +10% with some extremes at both ends.
eFTP, KWQ, PMMail, PMView, PMJPEG, ObjectDesktop, GalCiv, RSJ CD Writer... Several of these are available on Windows too (PMView, PMMail, ObjectDesktop, GalCiv, RSJ) ... and PMView could pop up on Linux too in a year or two. Worth waiting for imho.
Sorry about this walk down memory lane, but I couldn't help it.
You brought back memories of the DeScribe wordprocessor... originally on OS/2 (later also on Windows) it provided you with many page layout features. When you started with a "blank" sheet, you were actually in a text-frame.
That's a word processor I miss...
>No! They are not even close to being in the same galaxy as "more >correct". Within the context of the computer world,
>1K = 1024 or 2^10
>1M = 1048576 or 2^20
>1G = 1073741824 or 2^30
>1T = 1099511627776 or 2^40
Where have you been?
1KB = 1000 bytes
1MB = 1000000 bytes
1GB = 1000000000 bytes
1TB = 1000000000000 bytes
1KiB = 1024 bytes
1MiB = 1048576 bytes
1GiB = 1073741824 bytes
1TiB = 1099511627776 bytes
This "new" standard is from December 1998 (when it was adopted by the IEC).
Check here or here for reference.
Google for "SI binary prefix" for many more references if you care to.
>> Repeat after me: viruses not "virii"
> Granted I never did that well in Latin,
> but I'm going to have to disagree with that.
Why? Do you speak Latin or English? It looks very much like English to me. And in English you use "s" or "es" in plural form, not "i".
It's easy to underestimate the sheer power of having your own IT department capable of fixing the operating system bugs, adding core features, collaborating, and shareing the source with brilliant volunteers rabidly eager to sink their teeth into the next big challenge, free of charge.
This is for the enterprise. The world of pointy-haired managers an PFY in the IT department. Do you really think that managers get's happy-happy thoughts of the PFYs changing code in the RDBMS system? or the kernel on their USD 100 million server? where they will loose USD 2 million each hour the system is down?
I love OSS as much as anyone, but the enterprise just isn't ready to chuck out their mainframes with DB2 or Suns with Oracle.
Though they are considering Linux on their mainframe, so there's hope yet
Really? Three "Enterprise" OS? RedHat, UnitedLinux and Windows?
Bah!
None of them are really ready for the enterprise. What if they compared Unix (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris) with z/OS (MVS) or OS/400?
Linux and Windows are still condenders, imho. They have their uses in parts of an "Enterprise", but are any of them ready to kick out the operating systems that sits at the heart of todays very large corporations?
To quote from your link:
:)
--------
To the chagrin of Democratic partisans, the consortium proclaimed Bush still would have won the apparently limited statewide recount underway last December 9 even if the U.S. Supreme Court had not swooped in and stopped it. But if all disputed ballots had been manually counted?something, ironically, neither side had even asked for?Al Gore could have eked out a narrow victory.
--------
So we're both right.
But as I've said in another post: it is only the paper trail the enabled this audit in the first place. OTOH, without tha ballot notes the whole mess would probably not have surfaced.
> recount as being a lot more involved than just a simple
:)
> recounting of ballots
True. They had to evaluate the ballot itself. Was the punched hole outside one of the candidates. Did it have multiple holes. What was the intention etc... as you said
But still my point it that they had a paper trail. Messy as it was.
The voting system is the backbone of a democratic system. This is the number one indicator that a nation has taken the step forward and joined the democratic fold.
It needs to be auditable. It needs to be verifyable. To the full extent.
Look at the mess in Florida in the last US presidential elections. The system there worked as everything was on paper, so they just needed to go through all the ballot notes and re-count and re-evaluate them. After the extensive re-counts and press and public auditing of the result, it was found to be correct.
How can you do that audit if you don't know the system? And the only way to know a computer based system is to have all the information about it available, including source code.
Absolutely true -- especially for desktop applications. But unfortunately this coding style also seeps down to server and client/server apps. And there bloat and poor design performance-wise really hurts you.
When your USD 5 million web site collapses because the back-end system cannot handle the transaction load when everybody wants to purchase easter bunnies (RSN).
Developers takes the bad habbits with them much too often.
Politics... why can't we live in peace without that damned politics?
I bet those politicians are now drooling when they think about all the extra votes they will get in the next poll. The Romans really had it right. Let the plebs live their own lives, give them bread and circus and they will stay happy and ignorant.
Should they ban Quake type games too now? What about military flight simulators? What about strategy games where military action is a part of the game? Why not ban all computer games except the original Tetris?
The war in the gulf is underway. That's a reality. They should adjust to it and make sure that it is over as soon as possible with as little civilian casualities as possible. Do they think they can get the coalition to just back off and go home?
GalCiv for OS/2 had "Shipyards for GC" where you could design your own ships. It was planned to include this in GalCiv for Windows, but I'm not sure if it's there.
:)
I'm really looking forward to this on Windows, one fo my fav games ever (apart from Harpoon
Sure, you can buy extras. Veritas has another range of options.
But neither Veritas nor Online JFS are included in the box.
And I think that LVM is a basic part of any OS, and anything but online LVM is a joke in todays 24/7 servers.
> HPUX's LVM subsystem may take a few minutes to figure out, but it is pretty much bulletproof.
/usr or any other mounted filesystem. For good out-of-the-box LVM, look at AIX.
Really? Until you try to extend the / filesystem, or
It was part of the pre-ISDN testing. They added white noise so you get a feedback that the line is "active". It is the phone itself that adds it. "Sidetone" is what we call it in my language anyway :)
Well, let's say 50fps just to have a number. You can spot a difference from 30fps to 50fps depending on how you view the output (crt, lcd, projector, broadcast, cinema... whatever).
But still, the reason for 100+ fps is that you need that extra speed when the scene is complex; 8 players, 12 monsters, 56 light sources, 93MB of textures, 1000+ objects.... then even a GeforceFX or Radeon9700 could drop down fps to noticable levels.
>"we have good, smart people, but other companies do too.
>The real key to uptime is the processes you use"
Instead of chasing a tail: Yes, I agree.
Put it in another way: Use smart processes. Use them to accomplish clear goals. Don't use them as a reason to make more foils or Powerpoint presentations.
One reason why I prefer the old tactile click keyboards. You know, the big, heavy, noisy IBM PC keyboards... Key stroke lenght is longer, a physical "click" that gave you feedback when a key was pressed so you knew: 1. that key is pressed 2. no need to push that finger down further.
:)
Too bad they don't make them like that anymore. Now it's just soft&silent-. Bah
> Processes are the way policies are implemented [snip]
Yes. And some managers falls into the trap of using them to control office policies. Basically a process should be documented on one page at the most (not including procedure docs of course). It's just a high level description of information flow. But today some people make a career out of writing, updateing and auditing Processes. It's one more piece in the Empire Building Process.
And as you mentioned ISO-9000; ISO-9000 does not define how complex processes should be. Just that you have defined them, documented them and that they are followed. So the simpler they are the easier it it to get through an ISO audit. Also it will give the company more flexibility when they follow the processes.