With the ones mentionned here and the one mentionned earlier (http://slashdot.org/articles/00/07/21/2158211.sht ml), that makes 5 new moons for Saturn discovered in 2000...
Now, I want to see what they're made of (and if they have any atmosphere; it seems unlikely because of their sizes).
"Why would optical recognition software be necessary? just because its a current technology doesn't mean it is at all necessary to interstellar or planetary navigation. People manage to go into space and have no trouble getting home without the need for such software, people managed to land on specific geographic areas of the moon without the need for it, we can land probes in precise regions of distant planets without any such need. Maybe the aliens are stupid? "
Look at what we did with the mars probes... If we had a few pyramids there, probably we wouldn't have had a problem with them crashing on the surface!:)
We talking about online "Web" banking... So, it should be pretty easy to avoid platform dependant stuff; and it would make more customers happy and wouldn't take longer to produce the same results.
If you add to use their own software to do online banking with them, I would understand their point of view about not supporting Linux as "Yet another platform". But, when doing web stuff, you can do (almost) anything without proprietary extension for web banking (i.e. no need for Shockwave and similar products).
America started as "The land of freedom" is now the land of money... Everytime they can have you pay for something, they will... That's sad, but that how it is now...
> Are there any issues with Mandrake compiling for i586/i686 that concerns AMD owners? Any performance problems with K6-2's ???
> And what about Athlons?
The instructions that have been added to the Pentium chip are also available on the corresponding AMD chip (for the current chips on the market). So, something compiled for Pentium (vs for the 80386 chip) will also perform better on a K6-2 (and up) CPU. I, myself, use Mandrake on an AMD K6-2; it works like a charm!
> Does compiling for i386 exact a peformance hit on Pentiums, and if so, why the hell do it?
Basically, compiling a program for i386 won't DECREASE the performance on the Pentium (vs the i386); but the same executable will be able to run on a Pentium and on a 80386. (that's the advantage of compiling for i386). Now, the downside: when compiling for i386 instead of Pentiums, you don't use the new instructions of the Pentium chips (that are not present on i386). These new instructions (which can optimize some part of you code by allowing your compiler to use some new assembly instructions) will make the code faster since they have been optimized in the hardware.
Let's hope Congress will stop cutting in the funding of NASA to allow that. A lot of new systems will need to be developed and tested to allow that to happen. Let's hope NASA will have enought money left to invest in this great "adventure". Private funding sure would help... But that's still a few years down the road and a lot of things might happen during that time.
When something like that comes out, it's really hard to get the scientists on your side. It's like Einstein's general relativity theorem. If it goes against the current physics laws, scientists are more willing to question the new (possible) evidence than the existing theory. So, as long as they don't physically prove it; they might not be able to get their concept accepted by the scientific community.
Ok, here's a chart you'll find on their page... But what about the 1 processor with Windows NT Client... They probably didn't like the results of that one... And that's the one I'm most interested in... In the business world, where security is important, the clients are more likely to be NT Workstations instead of Windows 95. Anyway, their benchmark considers only the aspects where Windows can score better than Linux (nothing about reliability, cost, ability and performance with CGI (or Perl).
Table 1: File Server Speed Advantage of Windows NT Server over Linux
__________________________________________ |......# of................Client............Windows NT is faster.| |Processors............Type.................than Linux by.........| |----------------------------------------------- --------| |.......1..............Windows 95................1.5 times..........| |.......4..............Windows NT...............1.9 times..........| |.......4..............Windows 95................2.7 times..........| |_________________________________________|
"ebay.com" return 'Solaris' and "www.ebay.com" returns 'Microsoft-IIS/3.0'
Note: 'ebay.com' gets redirected to 'www.ebay.com'. So, they are probably using MS products for the internet part of their software and Sun/Solaris software for the back processing. Maybe the problem lies in the communication between the 2 systems... A buffer might have the probability of getting corrupted during the transfer (bad use of semaphores resulting in overwriting part of the buffer or such). That might be what caused bad data in the database. Their software may have problem to handle these corrupted data properly.
According to netcraft (http://www.netcraft.com/cgi-bin/Survey/whats), they are running on MS-IIS/3.0.
------------------------------------------ www.ebay.com is running Microsoft-IIS/3.0
Microsoft-IIS is also being used by Walt Disney, Compaq, Nasdaq, and The National Football League. www.ebay.com is hosted by ebay.com. ------------------------------------------
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That is my guess.
Mario.
According to their FAQ, it won't be turn based anymore... But will give you enought time to plan and prepare/manage your attacks.
Mario.
With the ones mentionned here and the one mentionned earlier (http://slashdot.org/articles/00/07/21/2158211.sht ml), that makes 5 new moons for Saturn discovered in 2000...
Now, I want to see what they're made of (and if they have any atmosphere; it seems unlikely because of their sizes).
Mario.
"Why would optical recognition software be necessary? just because its a current technology doesn't mean it is at all necessary to interstellar or planetary navigation. People manage to go into space and have no trouble getting home without the need for such software, people managed to land on specific geographic areas of the moon without the need for it, we can land probes in precise regions of distant planets without any such need. Maybe the aliens are stupid? "
:)
Look at what we did with the mars probes... If we had a few pyramids there, probably we wouldn't have had a problem with them crashing on the surface!
Mario.
At Last, Mir to be Ditched... Again...
You can get more information on what is TripWire by going to the following page on their website: http://www.tripwiresecurity. com /company/index.cfml?
The apps link should be http://www.kde.org/current.html instead of
http://apps.kde.com
Mario.
We talking about online "Web" banking... So, it should be pretty easy to avoid platform dependant stuff; and it would make more customers happy and wouldn't take longer to produce the same results.
If you add to use their own software to do online banking with them, I would understand their point of view about not supporting Linux as "Yet another platform". But, when doing web stuff, you can do (almost) anything without proprietary extension for web banking (i.e. no need for Shockwave and similar products).
Mario.
It's interesting to note that most of them could be summarized as human stupidity or human selfishness.
Mario.
America started as "The land of freedom" is now the land of money... Everytime they can have you pay for something, they will... That's sad, but that how it is now...
> Are there any issues with Mandrake compiling for i586/i686 that concerns AMD owners? Any performance problems with K6-2's ???
> And what about Athlons?
The instructions that have been added to the Pentium chip are also available on the corresponding AMD chip (for the current chips on the market). So, something compiled for Pentium (vs for the 80386 chip) will also perform better on a K6-2 (and up) CPU. I, myself, use Mandrake on an AMD K6-2; it works like a charm!
Mario.
> Does compiling for i386 exact a peformance hit on Pentiums, and if so, why the hell do it?
Basically, compiling a program for i386 won't DECREASE the performance on the Pentium (vs the i386); but the same executable will be able to run on a Pentium and on a 80386. (that's the advantage of compiling for i386). Now, the downside: when compiling for i386 instead of Pentiums, you don't use the new instructions of the Pentium chips (that are not present on i386). These new instructions (which can optimize some part of you code by allowing your compiler to use some new assembly instructions) will make the code faster since they have been optimized in the hardware.
Mario.
Let's hope Congress will stop cutting in the funding of NASA to allow that. A lot of new systems will need to be developed and tested to allow that to happen. Let's hope NASA will have enought money left to invest in this great "adventure". Private funding sure would help... But that's still a few years down the road and a lot of things might happen during that time.
Ok, what about a moon orbiting that big one that "could" support life then?
Mario.
It could have been worst!
At least, they have Jon "Maddog" Hall as one of their speakers to talk about Linux...
Mario.
When something like that comes out, it's really hard to get the scientists on your side. It's like Einstein's general relativity theorem. If it goes against the current physics laws, scientists are more willing to question the new (possible) evidence than the existing theory. So, as long as they don't physically prove it; they might not be able to get their concept accepted by the scientific community.
I knew Linux was sexy... I just didn't know it was that sexy! :)
Table 1: File Server Speed Advantage of Windows NT Server over Linux
__________________________________________
|......# of................Client............Windows NT is faster.|
|Processors............Type.................tha
|----------------------------------------------
|.......1..............Windows 95................1.5 times..........|
|.......4..............Windows NT...............1.9 times..........|
|.......4..............Windows 95................2.7 times..........|
|_________________________________________|
Thay have an equivalent called "1400M" which runs Windows NT...
They not switching to Linux only....
Too bad!
"ebay.com" return 'Solaris' and
"www.ebay.com" returns 'Microsoft-IIS/3.0'
Note: 'ebay.com' gets redirected to 'www.ebay.com'. So, they are probably using MS products for the internet part of their software and Sun/Solaris software for the back processing. Maybe the problem lies in the communication between the 2 systems... A buffer might have the probability of getting corrupted during the transfer (bad use of semaphores resulting in overwriting part of the buffer or such). That might be what caused bad data in the database. Their software may have problem to handle these corrupted data properly.
Mario.
According to netcraft (http://www.netcraft.com/cgi-bin/Survey/whats), they are running on MS-IIS/3.0.
------------------------------------------
www.ebay.com is running Microsoft-IIS/3.0
Microsoft-IIS is also being used by Walt Disney, Compaq, Nasdaq, and The National Football League.
www.ebay.com is hosted by ebay.com.
------------------------------------------
Mario.