I don't understand why people assume that because they are witholding the results Linux must have lost. Maybe they are witholding the results because Linux won? Wouldn't it already be enough of a score for NT if a Linux server tuned by Linus himself couldn't pass muster?
I agree, though, that this hardware platform and server load are somewhat unrealistic..
This might come as something of a shock to some of you, but cable companies have been able to tell which channel you're watching for *years*. Anyone with pay-per-view capability already has a bidirectional link with the cable co.
Cable companies in general have not given this information out for several reasons. One is that it's not in a convenient format. An engineer can punch in your cable-box ID code and read the channel you're watching on an LED display, but he can't download a whole neighborhood into a file. But they can (and do) collect statistics about which channels are the most popular. In Japan, for example, the cable industry has discovered that many people continue to watch the standard broadcast channels on cable! Another reason they don't give the info out is more obvious; it would be a violation of consumer trust. But the channels your local cable co. subscribes to are based in part on these data, and the program producers are aware (naturally) of what people are watching.
So leave your cable box on the Discovery Channel, even when you're not watching it!:-)
I think they would have noticed the buffer cache blowing up and processes getting stuck if this were the case, though. I personally favor the theory that they left Advanced Power Management turned on in the BIOS and after 30 minutes it was putting the CPUs in powersave mode.;-)
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Numerous other glitches exist in today's stuff, which even a single proofread should be enough to find.
I don't understand why people assume that because they are witholding the results Linux must have lost. Maybe they are witholding the results because Linux won? Wouldn't it already be enough of a score for NT if a Linux server tuned by Linus himself couldn't pass muster?
I agree, though, that this hardware platform and server load are somewhat unrealistic..
This might come as something of a shock to some of you, but cable companies have been able to tell which channel you're watching for *years*. Anyone with pay-per-view capability already has a bidirectional link with the cable co.
:-)
Cable companies in general have not given this information out for several reasons. One is that it's not in a convenient format. An engineer can punch in your cable-box ID code and read the channel you're watching on an LED display, but he can't download a whole neighborhood into a file. But they can (and do) collect statistics about which channels are the most popular. In Japan, for example, the cable industry has discovered that many people continue to watch the standard broadcast channels on cable! Another reason they don't give the info out is more obvious; it would be a violation of consumer trust. But the channels your local cable co. subscribes to are based in part on these data, and the program producers are aware (naturally) of what people are watching.
So leave your cable box on the Discovery Channel, even when you're not watching it!
According to Alan Cox (and he should know) 2.2.2 has a known TCP flaw that is triggered when talking to NT servers. Apparently, this bug still exists.
:)
The Linux developers care about this issue, but not so many of them have NT running at home...
It has been suggested that their problem might have been a bug in 2.2 that was fixed in 2.2.5, namely the bforget() bug.
e /reports/bforget.html
;-)
http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/citi-netscap
I think they would have noticed the buffer cache blowing up and processes getting stuck if this were the case, though. I personally favor the theory that they left Advanced Power Management turned on in the BIOS and after 30 minutes it was putting the CPUs in powersave mode.
No timezones! Down with timezones! Use the
Internet Beat! (I know it started as a cheezy
marketing scam, but who cares! Time zones suck.)
GMT is dead. They closed the Royal Observatory.
The new zero is @000. Who cares where it is?
(And yes, you can use decimal places, like @322.5
if you want more accuracy, duh.)