There are already applications that could use > 64 bits of address space. Whilst 16 Exobytes might sound like a BIGNUM for RAM, it isn't that much of a bignum for large scale disk arrays.
I hope I'm not the only one looking at that and thinking 'What the hell kind of media besides HDD am I going to back this up on?
I recently purchased two 120GB IDE drives to hold my MP3 collection ripped from my CD collection.
I've been ripping for about 5 days now, and I'm in the C's. (320KB encoding, Athlon 1.33 running RH Linux is doing the ripping, about 8 hrs a day)
I started looking for a backup method besides HDD. Tapes are at best at 110/220GB with SuperDLT. But for home use spending about $5000 for a single tape drive when a hard drive of that size is $200 is out of sight.
Tape tech has GOT to catch up somehow and get down to the cost/MB that HDDs are or we're going to be in an interesting quandary for backing stuff up for DR purposes.
What is facinating about this is that it could either revolutionize the human birth process or be perverted into something horrid.
If Women were no longer subjected to being the bearer of children, and allowed to have the option of using an alternative method of gestating a child. Health costs could be lowered, OBs would be rare, etc. The Truth Machine and The First Immortal wree two books by James Halperin about ideas of how the future could turn out. He had artificial wombs as one of the techs (mentioned briefly).
At the same time, an artificial womb could be quite horrific. How would a person be after developing in an artificial womb. Charles Wilson explored this with Embryo and had a bunch of psychotic murderers running around.
I often felt that humans just shouldn't be allowed to do what they do with some forms of medical science because of how it is perverted in the name of their deity either. I'm sure the right-to-life people are going to have a field day with it, as well as the right-to-abortion folks. Both will show it as 'proof' that their side is right. Televangilists on TV will be telling folks to send em their money so they can stop it, etc.
Me, I find this facinating medically, but frightening socially.
I understand from what I've read over at Wired that many an old attendee of Linuxworld are dissapointed with the new business-sponsored Linuxworld.
I've read comments on it 'not being fun' any more. I've also seen comments here stating that the Opensource-ness of Linux is being attacked by the close-sourced monsters. I was wondering if that comment was referring to just the spastic comment aout including.NET into GNOME or the fact that IBM, HP, Compaq and other major hardware vendors are embracing Linux?
I think IBM doesn't sit up all day thinking of somehow 'stealing' linux for themselves. They see it as a viable, important alternative to the closed and controlled Microsoft, and probably even Intel regime. They see the gartner charts that show with current trends that Intel servers running MS OSes are going to account for 85% of the money spent on IT infrastructure in the server market.
The reason I think they're even against Intel is that all of their big-ticket-lots-o-press-with-linux in it adds are about the zSeries or the iSeries products. There is hardly a mention about Linux running on Intel based systems (xSeries).
I think IBM sees Linux as a way to sell more of their 'big iron' high margin systems and to not have to continue to fight the idiots at Dell who try to commodotize the server market when they see the server market as more than just a commodity...
What would the advantadge of this be over an Intel/AMD system? Or is the clone AIX market going to open up?
If they're comparable in price to an intel I could see Linux folks using them for servers vs. Intel. But if the PPC is a lot more expensive (20%) I don't see the value in this.
If MacOS still ran on something other than Apple's machines like it did in the mid 90s that'd be a reason to get one, but at the moment I'm not seeing it.
A large bank. I was talking about large airplane manufacturing companies, large investment companies, state agencies, web server farm companies, Small and Medium Businesses, etc. So a lot of people with admins have a PDA the admin is responsible for....Do they use them? Do the Admin's keep em synched? Or is it desk art?
Just like computers were before the advent of Windows 3.x. I'm talking large scale acceptance too, like 70% to 80% of the population of a given country (business wise, not consumer wise) Consumer market really didn't take off until the advent of even Windows 95.
Don't get me wrong, I've so far purchased 5 PDAs since they came out and I can't live without mine. Then again, I'm a geek and I work in the tech industry.
Realisticly, until they get some main stream applications on either platform, Palm or PocketPC they are going to be a geek type toy more than a real world app. Pocket Word and Pocket Excel aren't exactly the best tools on the iPaq with a stylus and no real keyboard....
There is a bit of bias on my part for Pocket PC so take the last statement with a grain of salt please. I happen to like the Palm OS and Graffiti. I'm really looking forward to the Treo to combine my Sprint PCS phone and the IBM Workpad c505 (Aka Palm c505) into one piece.
Until PDAs really get more main stream in large corporate world accounts they won't be successful. I call on fortune 500 companys and state government accounts. The only people that have Palm or WinCE devices are other Techs that are 'evaluating' one, or other sales types that sell them. Other than that, I never have anyone I can beam my business card too and I continue to have to use paper ones.
They need to get a product on there that is invaluable, or can help replace the much more expensive laptop. Until then, they're going to be an expensive calandar whos nearest competitor is the Franklin Planner, or the DayTimer.
Sony, Pioneer, Kenwood. These are the crem de la crem of Home Audio gear (well, the stuff that doesn't require a 5 digit loan before the decimal) and their names weren't listed.
Just the lower end stuff was. Apex, Panasonic, Toshiba.
I can't imagine the MPAA and RIAA wanting Microsoft to get into their camp. Unless they're thinking they'll help secure up so people can copy it.
They must not have looked at the Windows XP copy protection scheme.
...that damn bright object in the sky that is blacking out all the good things too look at. Thanks to it there is one good day a month, compounded by clouds appearing 85% of the time leaving one good month for observing.
That month being the said coldest day of the year, usually somewhere in the low single digits, then the wind helps it to double digit negatives.
Both systems have their merits. Though I am a bit disappointed with the PS2 in the Fighting Games genre. Dreamcast had things like Soul Caliber and DOA2. PS2 came out at launch with DOA2 but it was the same thing. I was hoping for something better than Tekken Tag Tournament.
Camecube has a few good launch titles. I have Wave Race and Star Wars. Star Wars graphics are impressive. But the PS2 Starfighter game is very good too. I hope to pick up Metal Gear Solid 2 and Final Fantasy X. Those are extermely impressive on the PS2. My brother rented MGS2. The only complaint is they over cinematized MGS2 compared to the previous version on the PSX.
XBox has nasty controlers, and about par games. Halo is about the only title I'm vaguely interested in, but then those controllers weigh a ton and are extremly awkward. For fraggin you must use a mouse for view, so I stick with my Desktops.
Remember the MIcrosoft Mantra of the old days?
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There should be two methods of determining whether or not the university can make money off their product.
Rule #1) If Students worked on the project, and were not compensated by things such as free tuition, comparable salary with public sector, or royalties of the distributed project they can not sell it.
Rule #2) If the project was funded by the US Government, State or Local Government, it can not be sold.
Rule #3) If the finances come from money that is considered 'tax deductable' by the person(s) giving the money, they can no sell it.
Rule #5) All proceeds from said sale of software is taxable as a standard corporation.
Until the rest of the Americans wake up and realize what is going on with education, it will continue to go down the tubes. It's not that Universites have suddenly gotten greedy, it's that they've suddenly gotten desperate. College Tuition is getting to be out of reach for more and more people. Or, more and more people are starting life with $40,000, $50,000, even $60,000 worth of debt for basic state universities.
It's a sad commentary on America. Guess which departments of Universites are the best funded?
I've installed Ximian using their red-carpet installer on Red Hat 7.1 and 7.2 five times (five machines) now and it's worked great every time. PAM wasn't touched, only the Gnome stuff
There are a few dependancy annoyances on RH 7.1 and the new Up2date/RHN from RedHat that I've not figured out, but the 7.2 RH machines are humming along just fine.
The only reason to get an HDTV ready TV is DVD
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If you are buying a new TV because you don't like your old one, get an HDTV Ready TV and a Progressive Scan DVD Player. That way you can watch widescreen DVDs in 480p mode instead of NTSC, getting a slightly better resolution.
Most areas still do not have HDTV broadcast, or if they do it is limited and you need a really weird antennae. DirecTV and Dish Network have HDTV broadcasts, but they are pay per view, and the endless loop you watch in the stores.
I will be buying a new TV this year (bigger and better baby) and will be getting an HDTV ready TV, nothing more. Heck Kansas City isn't supposed to come close to HDTV until 2003 or 2004 anyway.
Actually, The Intellistation is a Graphics Workstation, nothing desktop about those. Intellistations have been around since '96 or '97. They come with video cards that would make nVidea's GeForce line cry, of course they cost about as much as a mercades and have more processing power than the best overclocked Athlon;)
PC300 line went to NetVista A20/A40/A60
Aptiva was dropped, everyone that worked for that group was laid off/moved to another job.
Appgen has software packages from a home user to a business application. Linux, MacOS, or Windows.
I've had TiVo for over a year now
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I purchased a standalone TiVo box for regular cable TV in August of '99. I can say I'm very happy with it. It will change the way you watch TV.
I didn't use/investigate the ReplayTV version because I am a Sony Bigot and I bought the Sony PVR which is TiVo based. I can say that the hacking side of TiVo is very thourough and if you want to tear apart your TiVo and upgrade the capacity, or add an ethernet card or something fun it's out there. Though I have not investigated the ReplayTV side of the house to see what they offer to the hacking community.
The guide information, and it's ability to 'learn' what you want to watch is very nice. It picks shows, sometimes stuff I've never heard of but ends up being something I like. I was able to catch every Babylon 5 episode and catch the few I missed during the real airing.
Also, it's great for new parents. Tape your shows while yer new two month old baby screams, and then when you are fighting them to sleep late at night you can watch stuff you TiVo'd instead of the 65 of 67 channels of Paid Programming that is on between 1:00AM and 6:00AM when your child is wide awake (at least mine is)
One of the key things for 2.4 if I remeber right was SMP support. Are they going to work on improving SMP support beyond the process level in 2.5? What could one list as the 'key bullet points' for 2.5 if talking to a manager type for futures of the Linux kernal?
Microsft has been granted the ability to not allow porting of code, or information on how to attach to Windows based servers if there is a concern about the 'security' of the solution. What do you define as a 'security' hole, and how would you apply that to projects such as SAMBA and other NT/Linux interoperability projects? (Wine/Winx, LinWin, etc)
I'm sure the counter argument would be that the new digital devices require the million dollar satellite while with just a few dollars worth of components would be able to get your message out for help.
I myself think HAM radio is a thing of the past, just like 'kit' computers and other cool things that helped us learn.
However, I'm sure Radio Shack would be ticked for loosing their key demographic;)
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There are already applications that could use > 64 bits of address space. Whilst 16 Exobytes might sound like a BIGNUM for RAM, it isn't that much of a bignum for large scale disk arrays.
I hope I'm not the only one looking at that and thinking 'What the hell kind of media besides HDD am I going to back this up on?
I recently purchased two 120GB IDE drives to hold my MP3 collection ripped from my CD collection.
I've been ripping for about 5 days now, and I'm in the C's. (320KB encoding, Athlon 1.33 running RH Linux is doing the ripping, about 8 hrs a day)
I started looking for a backup method besides HDD. Tapes are at best at 110/220GB with SuperDLT. But for home use spending about $5000 for a single tape drive when a hard drive of that size is $200 is out of sight.
Tape tech has GOT to catch up somehow and get down to the cost/MB that HDDs are or we're going to be in an interesting quandary for backing stuff up for DR purposes.
I know, I was being fecicoius (SP?)
Disclaimer: I work for IBM.
Bad management is to blame for the large financial losses.
Just look at the numbers from the PC Division. Up until last year they lost lots of money from that division.
What is facinating about this is that it could either revolutionize the human birth process or be perverted into something horrid.
If Women were no longer subjected to being the bearer of children, and allowed to have the option of using an alternative method of gestating a child. Health costs could be lowered, OBs would be rare, etc. The Truth Machine and The First Immortal wree two books by James Halperin about ideas of how the future could turn out. He had artificial wombs as one of the techs (mentioned briefly).
At the same time, an artificial womb could be quite horrific. How would a person be after developing in an artificial womb. Charles Wilson explored this with Embryo and had a bunch of psychotic murderers running around.
I often felt that humans just shouldn't be allowed to do what they do with some forms of medical science because of how it is perverted in the name of their deity either. I'm sure the right-to-life people are going to have a field day with it, as well as the right-to-abortion folks. Both will show it as 'proof' that their side is right. Televangilists on TV will be telling folks to send em their money so they can stop it, etc.
Me, I find this facinating medically, but frightening socially.
I understand from what I've read over at Wired that many an old attendee of Linuxworld are dissapointed with the new business-sponsored Linuxworld.
.NET into GNOME or the fact that IBM, HP, Compaq and other major hardware vendors are embracing Linux?
I've read comments on it 'not being fun' any more. I've also seen comments here stating that the Opensource-ness of Linux is being attacked by the close-sourced monsters. I was wondering if that comment was referring to just the spastic comment aout including
I think IBM doesn't sit up all day thinking of somehow 'stealing' linux for themselves. They see it as a viable, important alternative to the closed and controlled Microsoft, and probably even Intel regime. They see the gartner charts that show with current trends that Intel servers running MS OSes are going to account for 85% of the money spent on IT infrastructure in the server market.
The reason I think they're even against Intel is that all of their big-ticket-lots-o-press-with-linux in it adds are about the zSeries or the iSeries products. There is hardly a mention about Linux running on Intel based systems (xSeries).
I think IBM sees Linux as a way to sell more of their 'big iron' high margin systems and to not have to continue to fight the idiots at Dell who try to commodotize the server market when they see the server market as more than just a commodity...
Just My $0.02. I may be wrong.
What would the advantadge of this be over an Intel/AMD system? Or is the clone AIX market going to open up?
If they're comparable in price to an intel I could see Linux folks using them for servers vs. Intel. But if the PPC is a lot more expensive (20%) I don't see the value in this.
If MacOS still ran on something other than Apple's machines like it did in the mid 90s that'd be a reason to get one, but at the moment I'm not seeing it.
...so now my TV is going to look like a 56k modem real player connection before too long. 20 Frames? nah, they only need 7!
The Red Hat Logo pops up and says 'You've got Linux!'
All the RHCEs are now AOLCEs
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A large bank. I was talking about large airplane manufacturing companies, large investment companies, state agencies, web server farm companies, Small and Medium Businesses, etc. So a lot of people with admins have a PDA the admin is responsible for....Do they use them? Do the Admin's keep em synched? Or is it desk art?
Just like computers were before the advent of Windows 3.x. I'm talking large scale acceptance too, like 70% to 80% of the population of a given country (business wise, not consumer wise) Consumer market really didn't take off until the advent of even Windows 95.
Don't get me wrong, I've so far purchased 5 PDAs since they came out and I can't live without mine. Then again, I'm a geek and I work in the tech industry.
Realisticly, until they get some main stream applications on either platform, Palm or PocketPC they are going to be a geek type toy more than a real world app. Pocket Word and Pocket Excel aren't exactly the best tools on the iPaq with a stylus and no real keyboard....
There is a bit of bias on my part for Pocket PC so take the last statement with a grain of salt please. I happen to like the Palm OS and Graffiti. I'm really looking forward to the Treo to combine my Sprint PCS phone and the IBM Workpad c505 (Aka Palm c505) into one piece.
Until PDAs really get more main stream in large corporate world accounts they won't be successful. I call on fortune 500 companys and state government accounts. The only people that have Palm or WinCE devices are other Techs that are 'evaluating' one, or other sales types that sell them. Other than that, I never have anyone I can beam my business card too and I continue to have to use paper ones.
They need to get a product on there that is invaluable, or can help replace the much more expensive laptop. Until then, they're going to be an expensive calandar whos nearest competitor is the Franklin Planner, or the DayTimer.
The key players IMHO.
Sony, Pioneer, Kenwood. These are the crem de la crem of Home Audio gear (well, the stuff that doesn't require a 5 digit loan before the decimal) and their names weren't listed.
Just the lower end stuff was. Apex, Panasonic, Toshiba.
I can't imagine the MPAA and RIAA wanting Microsoft to get into their camp. Unless they're thinking they'll help secure up so people can copy it.
They must not have looked at the Windows XP copy protection scheme.
...that damn bright object in the sky that is blacking out all the good things too look at. Thanks to it there is one good day a month, compounded by clouds appearing 85% of the time leaving one good month for observing.
That month being the said coldest day of the year, usually somewhere in the low single digits, then the wind helps it to double digit negatives.
Both systems have their merits. Though I am a bit disappointed with the PS2 in the Fighting Games genre. Dreamcast had things like Soul Caliber and DOA2. PS2 came out at launch with DOA2 but it was the same thing. I was hoping for something better than Tekken Tag Tournament.
Camecube has a few good launch titles. I have Wave Race and Star Wars. Star Wars graphics are impressive. But the PS2 Starfighter game is very good too. I hope to pick up Metal Gear Solid 2 and Final Fantasy X. Those are extermely impressive on the PS2. My brother rented MGS2. The only complaint is they over cinematized MGS2 compared to the previous version on the PSX.
XBox has nasty controlers, and about par games. Halo is about the only title I'm vaguely interested in, but then those controllers weigh a ton and are extremly awkward. For fraggin you must use a mouse for view, so I stick with my Desktops.
DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run.
There should be two methods of determining whether or not the university can make money off their product.
Rule #1) If Students worked on the project, and were not compensated by things such as free tuition, comparable salary with public sector, or royalties of the distributed project they can not sell it.
Rule #2) If the project was funded by the US Government, State or Local Government, it can not be sold.
Rule #3) If the finances come from money that is considered 'tax deductable' by the person(s) giving the money, they can no sell it.
Rule #5) All proceeds from said sale of software is taxable as a standard corporation.
Until the rest of the Americans wake up and realize what is going on with education, it will continue to go down the tubes. It's not that Universites have suddenly gotten greedy, it's that they've suddenly gotten desperate. College Tuition is getting to be out of reach for more and more people. Or, more and more people are starting life with $40,000, $50,000, even $60,000 worth of debt for basic state universities.
It's a sad commentary on America. Guess which departments of Universites are the best funded?
Sports.
It's pathetic.
I've installed Ximian using their red-carpet installer on Red Hat 7.1 and 7.2 five times (five machines) now and it's worked great every time. PAM wasn't touched, only the Gnome stuff
There are a few dependancy annoyances on RH 7.1 and the new Up2date/RHN from RedHat that I've not figured out, but the 7.2 RH machines are humming along just fine.
If you are buying a new TV because you don't like your old one, get an HDTV Ready TV and a Progressive Scan DVD Player. That way you can watch widescreen DVDs in 480p mode instead of NTSC, getting a slightly better resolution.
Most areas still do not have HDTV broadcast, or if they do it is limited and you need a really weird antennae. DirecTV and Dish Network have HDTV broadcasts, but they are pay per view, and the endless loop you watch in the stores.
I will be buying a new TV this year (bigger and better baby) and will be getting an HDTV ready TV, nothing more. Heck Kansas City isn't supposed to come close to HDTV until 2003 or 2004 anyway.
Actually, The Intellistation is a Graphics Workstation, nothing desktop about those. Intellistations have been around since '96 or '97. They come with video cards that would make nVidea's GeForce line cry, of course they cost about as much as a mercades and have more processing power than the best overclocked Athlon ;)
PC300 line went to NetVista A20/A40/A60
Aptiva was dropped, everyone that worked for that group was laid off/moved to another job.
Appgen has software packages from a home user to a business application. Linux, MacOS, or Windows.
I purchased a standalone TiVo box for regular cable TV in August of '99. I can say I'm very happy with it. It will change the way you watch TV.
I didn't use/investigate the ReplayTV version because I am a Sony Bigot and I bought the Sony PVR which is TiVo based. I can say that the hacking side of TiVo is very thourough and if you want to tear apart your TiVo and upgrade the capacity, or add an ethernet card or something fun it's out there. Though I have not investigated the ReplayTV side of the house to see what they offer to the hacking community.
The guide information, and it's ability to 'learn' what you want to watch is very nice. It picks shows, sometimes stuff I've never heard of but ends up being something I like. I was able to catch every Babylon 5 episode and catch the few I missed during the real airing.
Also, it's great for new parents. Tape your shows while yer new two month old baby screams, and then when you are fighting them to sleep late at night you can watch stuff you TiVo'd instead of the 65 of 67 channels of Paid Programming that is on between 1:00AM and 6:00AM when your child is wide awake (at least mine is)
One of the key things for 2.4 if I remeber right was SMP support. Are they going to work on improving SMP support beyond the process level in 2.5? What could one list as the 'key bullet points' for 2.5 if talking to a manager type for futures of the Linux kernal?
Microsft has been granted the ability to not allow porting of code, or information on how to attach to Windows based servers if there is a concern about the 'security' of the solution. What do you define as a 'security' hole, and how would you apply that to projects such as SAMBA and other NT/Linux interoperability projects? (Wine/Winx, LinWin, etc)
I'm sure the counter argument would be that the new digital devices require the million dollar satellite while with just a few dollars worth of components would be able to get your message out for help.
;)
I myself think HAM radio is a thing of the past, just like 'kit' computers and other cool things that helped us learn.
However, I'm sure Radio Shack would be ticked for loosing their key demographic
Sounds like a LEGO Mindstorms Project to me!
Thanks for posting that link. They're out of 24x SCSI CDs, at least it wouldn't let me order more than six. Only $90.
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