You are comparing a 1U rack optimized server(Sun) to a desktop case(Dell). If takes a lot more engineering(and money) to make a powerful server in a 1U form factor. If you had a reading comprehension above that of a 5 year old you might have been clued into the fact that they are comparing their servers to the Dell poweredge servers. Dell's 1750 server is cheaper than the Sun 60x, but the Sun65x is just several hundred off. I would bet that after corporate discounts the price diff would neg. and if Sun's servers perform better...). I can't stand Slashdot idiots making invalid comparisons.
3) It's not like the "greedy and powerful" collect craploads of cash to hide from the common man. Even if they DO save that money, they most likely do not save it in cash under their mattress. Which means that it's either liquid, in which case the storing institution (i.e. a bank) uses that asset for other means while paying that person for the use of the money...but the bank makes money on it in turn. OR it's in non-liquid assets, such as a house, car, etc., in which case MORE also received the benefits of that money. You'll prolly knee-jerk and say "that's trickle down economics, so you're a facist pig." If so, read it again and tell me where I'm wrong.
Continue to follow that flow of cash and you will see where you are wrong. Greed is a very sharp sword. Continue your logic...20 people in America could hold *all* of the wealth in this country, what would become of this country then?
At my job, I have all 3 of the above; Linux isn't even an option for us.
Too bad, you guys could have saved quite a bit of money. BTW, why all three? This seems quite silly unless managing complexity is something you enjoy doing.
When you run Really Big Databases (tm), Linux isn't an option. When you require 4-9's or 5-9's of uptime, Linux isn't an option.
RAC(Oracle 9i)/RHAS + Dell = (cost & performance. > Sun). Who cares if you have 48-106 slow USIII processors when you can have 32 fast Pentium processors. If you don't believe me have a look at SPEC.org. A Dell configuration can scale to 32 TB of storage is that enough? A Dell solution will also support.9999 uptime, but I know you don't need that much uptime since "suits" actually have time to get to your company when an outage occurs.
Done. I just installed Gentoo last night and I *love* it. Yes, the install is a pain, but the documentation is great and easy to follow. I have been using RedHat since 4.2. I really love the USE variable so I can determine that Mozilla get nice fonts. Now I can have nice or silly anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla like MS Comic Sans.
Umm, that is completely false. RAID(Redundant Array of Inexpesive Disks) has multiple levels (1-7), multiple combinations(1+0 or 0+1), and all of them are valid RAID configurations by definition.
That doubles the speed of data transfer, by using 2 HDD, and pretending its one.
BTW: You can use any number of disks(implementation specific) and do RAID 0 (I have 4 disk RAID 0 sets at work).
You probably need Raid 0+1, which has speed benefits, and redundancy. It means of course 4 HDD, all identical
RAID 10(1+0) is better because you stripe the mirror sets instead of mirroring the stripes. You can have only 1 drive fail in a 0+1 scenario (one disk fails and the mirror fails over to the other stripe). In a 1+0 scenario you can have 2 drives fail (as long as they are on different mirrors).
try deleting your qcast save from the memory card browser (in the ps2 not in qcast) and re-setup your network. It will reboot 4 or 5 times to update to the new versions, and may work better.
I have already done that.
I have directories with 500 and 600 songs in them, and its just fine!
I have a directory with 4200+. The workaround I have found is to generate my own playlists with "ls" and "awk" and redirect them into the Default_Playlists directory.
Because the Qcast sucks for playing DIVX movies. I know I have it. The software is getting close, but when I have my Mom over for a visit I can't use "close". The mp3 playback is cool, except when you have more than a few hundred songs in a directory. (just hangs). The final touch is the sweet feature of the CD booting every 3rd or 4th try. Please explain to me how this thing "rocks". THE QCAST IS NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME!
You are very ignorant. DVD --> Computer = no loss of quality. You simple extract vobs off of the DVD to the HD. I can make divx rips of my movies that are indistinguishable from DVDs when played on a television. The quality all depends on the bitrate used. I even keep the dolby digital tracks intact. (and use the directors commentary as a second audio track too).
On the other hand, their advice to use tcsh/bash as a sudo command is poorly thought out. How is that any better than su?
Because you can have sudo log all commands. You can tell who screwed up and exactly what they did. You can make sudo a better drop in replacement for su.
How about thermal protection? I don't want my processor to fry my motherboard or itself! Another area is DIVX encoding (or codecs that are optimized for SSE2)
exactly as I said- how many people would group running a serious application (weblogix) and running an application for piracy (LimeWire, a Gnutella P2P client) ?
Sigh, Limewire is not an application for piracy it is a P2P client for sharing files. Yes, if one chooses to he/she can pirate just about anything, but that is not why I use it. Your ignorance is shining through. Have you ever used your personal workstation as a development box? You can be incredibly productive by unit testing on your box and then system testing on the server.
if you're so concerned about having quality java support for a commercial app, you would run it on a Sun box.
Why? Have you tested both platforms using a real world application using EJBs? Hmm, thought so. Have you ran the spec benchmarks? Hmm, thought so.
I know that JDK support and app support for linux are better now,
Correct.
but would you risk your job and reputation on it? I hope not. that's why we have budgets, and if yours isn't enough to truly build a good infrastructure for whatever applications you have then you shouldn't be building them to start with.
Hell yeah! Lets spend more money than we have to! Lets get a real expensive Sun workstation that will get its ass handed to it in Integer performance by a $750 Dell box. Let alone the fact that one wouldn't be able to run VMware with it (Don't you dare bring up the Sun PCI card). More to the point: Why isn't a 4 node Linux cluster of Weblogic with 2 Local Directors sitting in front (for failover if you are scratching your head now) using XML for the interface a "good infrastructure"? Why not save a ton of money in this economic climate and be a hero instead of a shmuck. Why don't you just come out and say "Nobody ever got fired for buying a Sun!" (Replace Sun with Microsoft to see how silly you sound?)
that being said, I'm running serious enterprise java apps on a freebsd box using the JDK right now (OpenNMS, available at www.opennms.org - great enterprise SNMP monitoring system.)
"the JDK" lol, how is your Hotspot compiler?
Oh well, it is late and I am tired of typing. Your last line BTW is hilarious! Nice sound logical conclusion:)
Yes FreeBSD works great for a lot of things until you want to use it to run Weblogic, Limewire, and Jedit! No JDK support means no FreeBSD! Yes I know the JDK is coming, but this does me no good now.
Umm, dude, C/D does clutchless shifts! This is fine for getting the fastest time 0-60, but I certainly wouldn't do it with my own car. If you don't believe me then read how the magazine obtains it numbers.
It wasn't until World War I that people put aside their differences for the common good and the industry worked together in a spirit of free exchange of ideas!
I also listened to that NPR broadcast and there is a clarification I would like to make. The parties involved didn't just set aside their differences for WW1. The U.S. government had to step in and effectively end the lawsuit by paying *both* parties. This action then cleared to way for all parties in the airplane industry to work together.
Limewire and Jedit are two very nice programs that are GPLed. The programs run pretty fast and run on most popular platforms (being Java). Pretty cool when your P2P software has the same interface on Linux, Solaris, and Windows. Having the same interface makes answering your families' questions rather easy.
Hmm, I seem to remember a certain individual named "Jose Padilla" that was caught by an alert border gaurd. This guy was entering the country with intentions of making a "dirty bomb". These checks can catch the random idiot terrorist and are worth it.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm, maybe you should look again.
Base price PowerEdge 1750: $1,599
Base price PowerEdge 1600sc: $998
Compare apples to apples.
You are comparing a 1U rack optimized server(Sun) to a desktop case(Dell). If takes a lot more engineering(and money) to make a powerful server in a 1U form factor. If you had a reading comprehension above that of a 5 year old you might have been clued into the fact that they are comparing their servers to the Dell poweredge servers. Dell's 1750 server is cheaper than the Sun 60x, but the Sun65x is just several hundred off. I would bet that after corporate discounts the price diff would neg. and if Sun's servers perform better...). I can't stand Slashdot idiots making invalid comparisons.
3) It's not like the "greedy and powerful" collect craploads of cash to hide from the common man. Even if they DO save that money, they most likely do not save it in cash under their mattress. Which means that it's either liquid, in which case the storing institution (i.e. a bank) uses that asset for other means while paying that person for the use of the money...but the bank makes money on it in turn. OR it's in non-liquid assets, such as a house, car, etc., in which case MORE also received the benefits of that money. You'll prolly knee-jerk and say "that's trickle down economics, so you're a facist pig." If so, read it again and tell me where I'm wrong.
Continue to follow that flow of cash and you will see where you are wrong. Greed is a very sharp sword. Continue your logic...20 people in America could hold *all* of the wealth in this country, what would become of this country then?
50k a year? Poor chap.
At my job, I have all 3 of the above; Linux isn't even an option for us.
Too bad, you guys could have saved quite a bit of money. BTW, why all three? This seems quite silly unless managing complexity is something you enjoy doing.
When you run Really Big Databases (tm), Linux isn't an option. When you require 4-9's or 5-9's of uptime, Linux isn't an option.
RAC(Oracle 9i)/RHAS + Dell = (cost & performance. > Sun). Who cares if you have 48-106 slow USIII processors when you can have 32 fast Pentium processors. If you don't believe me have a look at SPEC.org. A Dell configuration can scale to 32 TB of storage is that enough? A Dell solution will also support .9999 uptime, but I know you don't need that much uptime since "suits" actually have time to get to your company when an outage occurs.
Threads are executed as one of four classes:
Actually Sun added a class in Solaris 9. It is called the "Fixed-Priority (FX) Scheduling Class". Check it out here if you interested.
Hell yeah! Gentoo is by far the best desktop distro! Stable, feature rich, and easy to administer.
From where are you getting the extra $3000?
I imagine he/she means high end system. 24" Monitor, 4x180GB HDs, etc. I can easily get the price over 7k
5. Good looking fonts for Mozilla
Done. I just installed Gentoo last night and I *love* it. Yes, the install is a pain, but the documentation is great and easy to follow. I have been using RedHat since 4.2. I really love the USE variable so I can determine that Mozilla get nice fonts. Now I can have nice or silly anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla like MS Comic Sans.
Raid 0 is not real Raid
Umm, that is completely false. RAID(Redundant Array of Inexpesive Disks) has multiple levels (1-7), multiple combinations(1+0 or 0+1), and all of them are valid RAID configurations by definition.
That doubles the speed of data transfer, by using 2 HDD, and pretending its one.
BTW: You can use any number of disks(implementation specific) and do RAID 0 (I have 4 disk RAID 0 sets at work).
You probably need Raid 0+1, which has speed benefits, and redundancy. It means of course 4 HDD, all identical
RAID 10(1+0) is better because you stripe the mirror sets instead of mirroring the stripes. You can have only 1 drive fail in a 0+1 scenario (one disk fails and the mirror fails over to the other stripe). In a 1+0 scenario you can have 2 drives fail (as long as they are on different mirrors).
try deleting your qcast save from the memory card browser (in the ps2 not in qcast) and re-setup your network. It will reboot 4 or 5 times to update to the new versions, and may work better.
I have already done that.
I have directories with 500 and 600 songs in them, and its just fine!
I have a directory with 4200+. The workaround I have found is to generate my own playlists with "ls" and "awk" and redirect them into the Default_Playlists directory.
Because the Qcast sucks for playing DIVX movies. I know I have it. The software is getting close, but when I have my Mom over for a visit I can't use "close". The mp3 playback is cool, except when you have more than a few hundred songs in a directory. (just hangs). The final touch is the sweet feature of the CD booting every 3rd or 4th try. Please explain to me how this thing "rocks". THE QCAST IS NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME!
You are very ignorant. DVD --> Computer = no loss of quality. You simple extract vobs off of the DVD to the HD. I can make divx rips of my movies that are indistinguishable from DVDs when played on a television. The quality all depends on the bitrate used. I even keep the dolby digital tracks intact. (and use the directors commentary as a second audio track too).
On the other hand, their advice to use tcsh/bash as a sudo command is poorly thought out. How is that any better than su?
Because you can have sudo log all commands. You can tell who screwed up and exactly what they did. You can make sudo a better drop in replacement for su.
In what sense is Athlon not competetive with P4?
How about thermal protection? I don't want my processor to fry my motherboard or itself! Another area is DIVX encoding (or codecs that are optimized for SSE2)
exactly as I said- how many people would group running a serious application (weblogix) and running an application for piracy (LimeWire, a Gnutella P2P client) ?
Sigh, Limewire is not an application for piracy it is a P2P client for sharing files. Yes, if one chooses to he/she can pirate just about anything, but that is not why I use it. Your ignorance is shining through. Have you ever used your personal workstation as a development box? You can be incredibly productive by unit testing on your box and then system testing on the server.
if you're so concerned about having quality java support for a commercial app, you would run it on a Sun box.
Why? Have you tested both platforms using a real world application using EJBs? Hmm, thought so. Have you ran the spec benchmarks? Hmm, thought so.
I know that JDK support and app support for linux are better now,
Correct.
but would you risk your job and reputation on it? I hope not. that's why we have budgets, and if yours isn't enough to truly build a good infrastructure for whatever applications you have then you shouldn't be building them to start with.
Hell yeah! Lets spend more money than we have to! Lets get a real expensive Sun workstation that will get its ass handed to it in Integer performance by a $750 Dell box. Let alone the fact that one wouldn't be able to run VMware with it (Don't you dare bring up the Sun PCI card). More to the point: Why isn't a 4 node Linux cluster of Weblogic with 2 Local Directors sitting in front (for failover if you are scratching your head now) using XML for the interface a "good infrastructure"? Why not save a ton of money in this economic climate and be a hero instead of a shmuck. Why don't you just come out and say "Nobody ever got fired for buying a Sun!" (Replace Sun with Microsoft to see how silly you sound?)
that being said, I'm running serious enterprise java apps on a freebsd box using the JDK right now (OpenNMS, available at www.opennms.org - great enterprise SNMP monitoring system.)
"the JDK" lol, how is your Hotspot compiler?
Oh well, it is late and I am tired of typing. Your last line BTW is hilarious! Nice sound logical conclusion :)
Yes FreeBSD works great for a lot of things until you want to use it to run Weblogic, Limewire, and Jedit! No JDK support means no FreeBSD! Yes I know the JDK is coming, but this does me no good now.
Umm, dude, C/D does clutchless shifts! This is fine for getting the fastest time 0-60, but I certainly wouldn't do it with my own car. If you don't believe me then read how the magazine obtains it numbers.
Moderators, please mod the parent up! The poster is correct and I forgot to add this crucial bit of info to my post.
It wasn't until World War I that people put aside their differences for the common good and the industry worked together in a spirit of free exchange of ideas!
I also listened to that NPR broadcast and there is a clarification I would like to make. The parties involved didn't just set aside their differences for WW1. The U.S. government had to step in and effectively end the lawsuit by paying *both* parties. This action then cleared to way for all parties in the airplane industry to work together.
Limewire and Jedit are two very nice programs that are GPLed. The programs run pretty fast and run on most popular platforms (being Java). Pretty cool when your P2P software has the same interface on Linux, Solaris, and Windows. Having the same interface makes answering your families' questions rather easy.
Virtualdub is excellent video editing software. Easy to get started with and *very* powerful. I use it to back up all of my DVDs. Give it a try.
Moderators, please mod up the parent post, it is quite a good.
Hmm, I seem to remember a certain individual named "Jose Padilla" that was caught by an alert border gaurd. This guy was entering the country with intentions of making a "dirty bomb". These checks can catch the random idiot terrorist and are worth it.
FYI: the machine wasn't connected to a network and had no floppy drive.