I'm sorry, but who cares? Yes, you are limited to 100m with copper, but that's a few stories of network runs. Any sensible network layout has the edge switches in the building they are going to, which will be at most a story or two away from then end points. The only time what you're talking about would matter is if you pulled all the fiber from across the entire campus back to one central point, which would just mean miles of pointless wiring.
From their Computer Recommendations 2004, they say a 2.8ghz CPU is minimum (even though they'll probably say a 2.8ghz Celeron is fine even though it's slower than a ~2.4ghz anything else)? And 64MB of video ram (ignoring the fact that built on cards have no specific ammount of video ram and are fine)? SoundBlaster sound card (even though built on sound is perfectly fine)? Oh, and "Additionally, laptops running windows should use the Centrino processor" (even though Centrino is NOT a CPU, but a marketing name for the Pentium-M CPU with specific wireless)?
Overal I must say their recomendations are full of shit. (and fiber to the desktop is just stupidly expensive and waiting to break, gig over fiber works great).
> after all that "Slot A", Socket 7xx/9xx nonsens you cant just buy a board
Erm, what "Slot A nonsens"? Yeah, years ago AMD switched from Slot A to Socket A for very good reasons and has stuck with Socket A up until now. In fact my CPU (Barton 3200+) recently died and I threw in a Duron 1ghz to keep my board running until I got a replacement. Again, PCI->AGP made a hell of a lot of sense and was again years ago, as does the current PCI -> PCI-E. Now the only "nonesens" has been the 754>939 change for single to dual channel, but AMD has publicly stated this will happen the whole time, plus they'll still produce at least one more round for 754 and 940 sockets.
So yeah, things change and your old stuff won't work any more, stop wining. At least it's not as bad as Intel (how many sockets have they had in the past few years anyway?).
There's been a thread on NANOG about Avi Freeman at the WSOP. From his website:
# Chief Network Scientist for Akamai: Working on new products, especially around Internet monitoring and availability # Playing poker every few months (see http://avi.freedman.net/poker.html) - I came in 5th and made the final table of the Pot Limit Omha event at the World Series. ESPN will air it on Aug 31, 2004.
I did a bunch of tests like this, but in 2.6 instead of 2.4. My conclusions:
* Ext2 is still overall the fastest but I think the margin is small enough that a journal is well worth it
* Ext3, ReiserFS, and XFS all perform similarly and almost up to ext2 except:
o XFS takes an abnormally long time to do a large rm even though it is very fast at a kernel `make clean`
o ReiserFS is significantly slower at the second make (from ccache)
* JFS is fairly slow overall
* Reiser4 is exceptionally fast at synthetic benchmarks like copying the system and untaring, but is very slow at the real-world debootstrap and kernel compiles.
* Though I didn't benchmark it, ReiserFS sometimes takes a second or two to mount and Reiser4 sometimes takes a second or two to unmount while all other filesystem's are instantaneous.
Or how about one of these? They're old-school and no one in their right mind uses them anymore, but damn those little things could push air (due to the fact they were going at 8000(!) RPM).
Have you ever looked at a quadro and a normal geforce? The cards themselves are identical other than teh quadro having two DVI instead of DVI/VGA. The only difference is the bios and the drivers have optimizations for some wireframe and related things. You can actually make a normal GeforceFX think it's a Quadro and get the preformance boost through hacked drivers or flipping a solder on the board.
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Ahh, I remember those days. Especially the month(!) it took to download a movie on dialup =)
The reason it worked, I think, is because AOL only kept 1 copy of the attachment. So you might have 40GB in your inbox and forward it to 1000 people creating 40TB of messages, but it's still be the single 40GB shared among everyone.
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Because firefox preloads all of the styles referenced. I'm not sure if this is a bug or intended but it causes massive bandwidth, especially with sites like this that have complex graphics for each style.
you can be sure that 939 cpu's won't fit in 940 sockets. its not the number of pins that matters, it's the electrical interface. also 939 is going to use unbuffered ram whil 940 uses buffered
that said, amd has said they will continue to produce 940 socket cpus through the year.
As other people have posted here are pictures of a Diebold ATM crashed here on campus that dropped to the Windows XP display. We poked around at it for a while because the monitor was a touch screen (and a very, very crappy one that that). Interesting things:
- Windows media player was installed (as seen in the pictures) - It's a P4 2GHz with 512mb of ram (wtf?! why on earth does it need that) - There's a CD-RW installed - There are two partitions and C: can't be accessed - There's the standard crap that comes in My Documents (like the Beethoven playing) - The printer is an Epson USB printer - There was a device listed for ATM Driver or something, I presume what actually feeds cash. - We never were able to get the network up, but there's an Intel network card in there. - For some reason there are speakers so we could hear the Beethoven. - It's running XP Embedded, didn't catch what version or what patches it had. - There was some sort of Text-to-Speech (or maybe S-to-T) program - As you can see Acrobat is installed - Remote Desktop was enabled! (might have been turned on by one of us though)
That's what I remember from the 5 minutes before running to class.
Currently Reiser4 isn't worth it. I tried it for a while and all I got was corruption issues (ie the journal didn't work at all, fsck on boot didn't work, I had to boot off a rescue partition to recover it). I did some testing and it turns out it's not even that fast.
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> while [ TRUE ] ; do sleep 1; grep ..blah blah.. ; done
..blah blah.. ` instead?
How about `watch grep
Then how about a mirror?
http://hackish.org/~rufus/flakey.info/plinth/
holy crap that was fast. Site's basically dead after 10 comments. I'm trying to get a mirror up at:t hsci.appstate.edu/%257Esjg/simpsonsmath/futuramama th/
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~pnelson/www.ma
So far I have the index page and a few pictures, but they'll go up as I get them.
I'm sorry, but who cares? Yes, you are limited to 100m with copper, but that's a few stories of network runs. Any sensible network layout has the edge switches in the building they are going to, which will be at most a story or two away from then end points. The only time what you're talking about would matter is if you pulled all the fiber from across the entire campus back to one central point, which would just mean miles of pointless wiring.
From their Computer Recommendations 2004, they say a 2.8ghz CPU is minimum (even though they'll probably say a 2.8ghz Celeron is fine even though it's slower than a ~2.4ghz anything else)? And 64MB of video ram (ignoring the fact that built on cards have no specific ammount of video ram and are fine)? SoundBlaster sound card (even though built on sound is perfectly fine)? Oh, and "Additionally, laptops running windows should use the Centrino processor" (even though Centrino is NOT a CPU, but a marketing name for the Pentium-M CPU with specific wireless)?
Overal I must say their recomendations are full of shit. (and fiber to the desktop is just stupidly expensive and waiting to break, gig over fiber works great).
It got unhappy when I went past 2.1V for vcore (and it was a mobile barton with a default vcore of 1.45 =). And yes, I am using watercooling.
> after all that "Slot A", Socket 7xx/9xx nonsens you cant just buy a board
Erm, what "Slot A nonsens"? Yeah, years ago AMD switched from Slot A to Socket A for very good reasons and has stuck with Socket A up until now. In fact my CPU (Barton 3200+) recently died and I threw in a Duron 1ghz to keep my board running until I got a replacement. Again, PCI->AGP made a hell of a lot of sense and was again years ago, as does the current PCI -> PCI-E. Now the only "nonesens" has been the 754>939 change for single to dual channel, but AMD has publicly stated this will happen the whole time, plus they'll still produce at least one more round for 754 and 940 sockets.
So yeah, things change and your old stuff won't work any more, stop wining. At least it's not as bad as Intel (how many sockets have they had in the past few years anyway?).
There's been a thread on NANOG about Avi Freeman at the WSOP. From his website:
# Chief Network Scientist for Akamai: Working on new products, especially around Internet monitoring and availability
# Playing poker every few months (see http://avi.freedman.net/poker.html) - I came in 5th and made the final table of the Pot Limit Omha event at the World Series. ESPN will air it on Aug 31, 2004.
I did a bunch of tests like this, but in 2.6 instead of 2.4. My conclusions:
* Ext2 is still overall the fastest but I think the margin is small enough that a journal is well worth it
* Ext3, ReiserFS, and XFS all perform similarly and almost up to ext2 except:
o XFS takes an abnormally long time to do a large rm even though it is very fast at a kernel `make clean`
o ReiserFS is significantly slower at the second make (from ccache)
* JFS is fairly slow overall
* Reiser4 is exceptionally fast at synthetic benchmarks like copying the system and untaring, but is very slow at the real-world debootstrap and kernel compiles.
* Though I didn't benchmark it, ReiserFS sometimes takes a second or two to mount and Reiser4 sometimes takes a second or two to unmount while all other filesystem's are instantaneous.
Whole thing available here
Or how about one of these? They're old-school and no one in their right mind uses them anymore, but damn those little things could push air (due to the fact they were going at 8000(!) RPM).
Have you ever looked at a quadro and a normal geforce? The cards themselves are identical other than teh quadro having two DVI instead of DVI/VGA. The only difference is the bios and the drivers have optimizations for some wireframe and related things. You can actually make a normal GeforceFX think it's a Quadro and get the preformance boost through hacked drivers or flipping a solder on the board.
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I guess they noticed my post and it's fixed now. I guess they do read the comments.
This CNN [http://news.com.com] story?
We all know the editors don't read the articles, but do they even read the submissions?
Dude, it's hosted on CMU's CS server. We're about as likely to get /.'d as Amazon is.
The developer has more information as to what WiX is in his blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen
Thanks, got all the files from you at 500k/sec!
Ahh, I remember those days. Especially the month(!) it took to download a movie on dialup =)
The reason it worked, I think, is because AOL only kept 1 copy of the attachment. So you might have 40GB in your inbox and forward it to 1000 people creating 40TB of messages, but it's still be the single 40GB shared among everyone.
Bandwith was about, um, 1mb? I took the server down as an unrelated event to get software raid working.
I feel like burning my new site in a bit =)
http://hackish.org/~rufus/distcc.php.html
Because firefox preloads all of the styles referenced. I'm not sure if this is a bug or intended but it causes massive bandwidth, especially with sites like this that have complex graphics for each style.
Hrm, if I was cynical I would say that this was the plan all along.
1) Scrap really popular program.
2) Get everyone yelling to bring it back
3) Say you can't unless because you lack the budget
4) Profit!!
you can be sure that 939 cpu's won't fit in 940 sockets. its not the number of pins that matters, it's the electrical interface. also 939 is going to use unbuffered ram whil 940 uses buffered
that said, amd has said they will continue to produce 940 socket cpus through the year.
As other people have posted here are pictures of a Diebold ATM crashed here on campus that dropped to the Windows XP display. We poked around at it for a while because the monitor was a touch screen (and a very, very crappy one that that). Interesting things:
- Windows media player was installed (as seen in the pictures)
- It's a P4 2GHz with 512mb of ram (wtf?! why on earth does it need that)
- There's a CD-RW installed
- There are two partitions and C: can't be accessed
- There's the standard crap that comes in My Documents (like the Beethoven playing)
- The printer is an Epson USB printer
- There was a device listed for ATM Driver or something, I presume what actually feeds cash.
- We never were able to get the network up, but there's an Intel network card in there.
- For some reason there are speakers so we could hear the Beethoven.
- It's running XP Embedded, didn't catch what version or what patches it had.
- There was some sort of Text-to-Speech (or maybe S-to-T) program
- As you can see Acrobat is installed
- Remote Desktop was enabled! (might have been turned on by one of us though)
That's what I remember from the 5 minutes before running to class.
Currently Reiser4 isn't worth it. I tried it for a while and all I got was corruption issues (ie the journal didn't work at all, fsck on boot didn't work, I had to boot off a rescue partition to recover it). I did some testing and it turns out it's not even that fast.
Here are my tests: 2.6 Filesystem Benchmarks