First, I'd like to say right now that I am not 15. I am at the mature age of 16. While I personally do work with UNIX and do programming for my job, I do NOT see this as a counterculture, as some people do.
This entire internet/open source "movement" in my opinion has created more problems then it has solved. I personally think we may have been better off in the late 40's than we are now. There are "zealots" who are obsessed with programs at this stage of the "information revolution". I am not sure, but I think that isn't a saying much about my generation. If I could, I would wake up all the people who are so hung up on using Linux or whatever just to call themselves a 'geek' or 'nerd'. Last time I checked, those were not compliments. Computers in general, are a tool. Nothing more, nothing less.
This was not intended as 'flamebait'. Although almost any conservative view posted on this website seems to be treated this way.
I don't know why some people feel the need to spell Sun in all capitals as "SUN." It is not an acronym such as SGI. This really irks me to no end...
Anyway, does anyone know why Cobalt would sell one of their machines with only 16mb of RAM? I was on their website today, and I saw that one model only came with 16mb of RAM. If this is an attempt to cut prices, isn't it a bit drastic? What can you even do with a server that comes with such a little bit of ram?
This may be a bit offtopic, but does anyone know approximately how much RAM Sun's upcoming Starcat server will hold? Just wondering.
Why? Because many of the people who buy Cobalt RAQ's want linux installed. And, yes, putting a UltraSPARC IIi would add a lot to the cost. SPARC's are aimed more towards the higher end server market, and Cobalt's line is not exactly highend. They did not aquire Cobalt to make smaller Sun servers, they could have done themselves...
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First, I'd like to say right now that I am not 15. I am at the mature age of 16. While I personally do work with UNIX and do programming for my job, I do NOT see this as a counterculture, as some people do. This entire internet/open source "movement" in my opinion has created more problems then it has solved. I personally think we may have been better off in the late 40's than we are now. There are "zealots" who are obsessed with programs at this stage of the "information revolution". I am not sure, but I think that isn't a saying much about my generation. If I could, I would wake up all the people who are so hung up on using Linux or whatever just to call themselves a 'geek' or 'nerd'. Last time I checked, those were not compliments. Computers in general, are a tool. Nothing more, nothing less. This was not intended as 'flamebait'. Although almost any conservative view posted on this website seems to be treated this way.
I don't know why some people feel the need to spell Sun in all capitals as "SUN." It is not an acronym such as SGI. This really irks me to no end... Anyway, does anyone know why Cobalt would sell one of their machines with only 16mb of RAM? I was on their website today, and I saw that one model only came with 16mb of RAM. If this is an attempt to cut prices, isn't it a bit drastic? What can you even do with a server that comes with such a little bit of ram? This may be a bit offtopic, but does anyone know approximately how much RAM Sun's upcoming Starcat server will hold? Just wondering.
Why? Because many of the people who buy Cobalt RAQ's want linux installed. And, yes, putting a UltraSPARC IIi would add a lot to the cost. SPARC's are aimed more towards the higher end server market, and Cobalt's line is not exactly highend. They did not aquire Cobalt to make smaller Sun servers, they could have done themselves...