Hopefully they will get their TCP stack in order too. I don't have data for Solaris 8, but the TCP performance between 7 -> 9 degraded by about 30% on the same hardware. A coworker compiled a PDF that shows uniform TCP performance degradation across a number of different block sizes and socket buffer sizes.
I'm getting sick and tired of the AMD is cool now that they have _the_ 64bit processor.
They (64bit procs) have been out for over 10 years now, its no big deal.
Look where Intel is now: AMD is ahead in 64-bit processors.
But, when the whole system is still bound because the memory bandwidth is bottlenecked, how does this make it ahead of Intel. For example, take a look at the memory bandwidth of the Itanium vs the Opteron. Hint, the numbers for the Itanium are 3453.0 3453.1 4020.4 4027.8, and the numbers for the Opteron are 1975 1747 1945 2018. Yes, thats 2x the performance, and that is with a 1.0GHz Itanium from a few years ago.
You also got to take into account that the compilers for the AMD Opterons are about 6 months old, the Intel Itanium compilers are years old, and made by the people that make the processors.
A small team of developers in Rwanda was just beginning work on a project to produce a localized version of OpenOffice....
This is why linux has flourished with developers. It was by developers for developers. This is nothing new, we know the difference, and are willing to make it work to suit our needs.
Scientists seem to feel OK with Linux, *NIX, and open-source software as well.
Its that damned 99% of the rest of the population that we have problems with:)
If it can't get the hardware to work correctly, there must be a problem. In my experience, its difficult to tell the difference between a software and hardware problem on a windows machine because there are just strange app crashes. Whereas if there is _any_ problem with a linux machine, I assume its hardware. Also, the drivers in linux are much more verbose when they have a problem.
Congratulations to AMD, they've been more innovative in the CPU market than Intel (which is a big feat in my book)
Hmm, I don't consider adding 64bit extensions to a 30 year old 16bit processor that was created by another company as "innovative". Wake me up when they have a wide memory bus, flat 64bit archetecture with a low voltage CPU. This is where innovation is going.
you can adress more than 4 gigs of ram with a 32bit prossessor You just need a cludge (kinda expensive/slow) but itspossible speaking of lots of ram, anyone seen those Ram Harddrives they had at CES a couple years ago
Bullshit. On 32bit systems, when you ask the OS for memory, it returns a 32bit pointer that cannot be incremented beyond 4gigs for one contiguous chunk of memory. There is a hack in x86 systems to put more RAM available to the whole machine, but not to one app for one chunk of memory.
This is why 64bit machines have been out for over 10 years now, some people need more than a cheap PC to get their work done.
I don't know what bothers me more. People stating their uninformed opinion as fact, or people actually buying it and modding it up.
They make their profit on Xeons, where until recently they have had no competition.
Huh? Intel is the largest manufacturere of CPUs in the world. They have had a net income of about $1b per quarter for the last 4 quarters, they have $16b in the bank. Thier stock has remained pretty stable (aside from the.bomb inflation), etc.
Being that were I work (a university) and there are THOUSANDS of p3, p4, etc chips and way less than 100 zeons, if they are making all of their profits on those 100 chips that only cost a few dollars more than the other thousands of chips.... Whatever, obviously your wrong.
Take a look at what they're doing - they're going after Xeon - and trying to get a piece of the profit in a market that's consistent with their fab capacity.
They are going after the HPC market, because that is the only market for cheap 64bit CPUs. You don't need a 1.457THz 128bit processor to check passwords on your domain. Sorry all of you Windows admins, being a domain controller is not that big of a deal.
Crunching numbers across 20 processors for 5 days at a time is a big deal. Being able to do that in 2.5 days is a real big deal. Not being able to do that because you can't address more than 4Gigs of memory at a time is a show stopper.
Actually the list is updated every 6 months, but the one in November is the bigger of the two because that is the time for the annual supercomputing conference.
There has always been the possibility that the evidence could have been tampered with before.
Yup.
Since it is digital this only makes it slightly easier to do.
Nope. Try making a md5 or sha1 hash of a photograph. Try replacing a photograph with a slightly different one. Try replacing/altering a digital photograph w/o altering its hash signature. Try replacing/altering a digital photograph that has its hash signature and is in the hands of both the defense and prosecution.
symlink whatever needs to be symlinked on the system. (a cronjob will remove dead links)
This will allow for different versions of foo, and the user can see what all is contained in foo (libraries, headers, binaries, manpages, readmes, etc). Ever try to do a 'ls' on today's linux systems in/usr/bin ? Its a mess.
Oh, and the tricky part. To uninstall do 'rm -rf/opt/foo.x.y.z'.
I'm sure they'll just release this, wait a year or two and then release the "classic" edition for people clamoring for it and they'll make loads of money yet again.
Or they could release both versions on the same release. Recently, I bought the Pink Floyd "Directors Cut" of Live at Pompeii and it has the original and the directors cut versions. I have other dvds that have widescreen and 4:3 versions.
Plus, there are only like 20 or so minutes of different footage, so it would fit on one disk easily.
I'm not sure how it is now that there are so many more developers on the kerrnel, but the kernel used to have its defaults set up for Linus' workstation. I do know that the default out of the box config was to use SMP, which is not going to work for about 99% of the people out there. I just checked to see if this was still the case, and yes, it does default to SMP. However, when I started configuring the kernel on an Itanium based machine, it did automatically fill in the blanks for setting up an Itanium processor.
The real shame is that the elementary ed teachers starting salary dropped significantly. These are people our society depends on, and it it very difficult to keep the best people for the job in there if they can get (and need) better paying work doing other jobs that don't require as much skill or talent.
How significant were your elementary ed teachers to you? How significant were your grades or quality of learning to what you do now?
Face it, for most people school is purely a babysitter until people are 18 years old. Most people only need to know how to read, write, and do simple math. Probably no more than an 8th grade education. In fact, my uncle has about an 8th grade education & I don't see him as being any different than anyone else that works labor jobs.
Back to the teachers, I believe that most of learning is developmental and naturally evolves. FYI, people don't "learn" to walk, it just happens. I don't think that people's education is significant until about 9th grade or beyond, where they can do more abstract thinking, and those that are bright and motivated tend to do well.
So you're volunteering for the same direct feedback to advertisers like "click-throughs" and "page-views" on the web? This is what brought those wonderful obnoxious ads, the popup/unders, flash animated ads, etc.
Me, I'd prefer product placement ads. I believe that they are more effective and noninvasive. What is wrong with "Trading Spaces" being sponsered by Lowes, Home Depot or Sears. How many people that are into bikes at all know the brand of bike that Seinfeld had hanging on his wall? How many people remember a single ad from the 10 or so years that Seinfeld was on?
Collar sensors are very common in places where radiation is present, etc. A networked realtime remotely monitored sensor using a computer like this would be used. Or at least one that can record data with a timestamp vs. an idiot light.
If its a normal computer that you can interface with, it would be neat to just talk to it like a Secret Service agent, but I don't think this guy has anywhere near the processing power for that.
Anyway, I find it amusing that slashdoters (including myself) love technology so much, but as soon as there is something new we all scoff at it and ask "Why?".
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Regarding the 100 -> 300 fps needs for games. I don't know of a monitor with a refresh rate above 125Hz which means that your fps is limited to 125.
But yeah, 300 is better, definitely.
They do have the poorly documented/marketed QFS which allows for multiple hosts to share a common fibre channel disk array.
Hopefully they will get their TCP stack in order too. I don't have data for Solaris 8, but the TCP performance between 7 -> 9 degraded by about 30% on the same hardware. A coworker compiled a PDF that shows uniform TCP performance degradation across a number of different block sizes and socket buffer sizes.
I'm getting sick and tired of the AMD is cool now that they have _the_ 64bit processor.
They (64bit procs) have been out for over 10 years now, its no big deal.
Look where Intel is now: AMD is ahead in 64-bit processors.
But, when the whole system is still bound because the memory bandwidth is bottlenecked, how does this make it ahead of Intel. For example, take a look at the memory bandwidth of the Itanium vs the Opteron. Hint, the numbers for the Itanium are 3453.0 3453.1 4020.4 4027.8, and the numbers for the Opteron are 1975 1747 1945 2018. Yes, thats 2x the performance, and that is with a 1.0GHz Itanium from a few years ago.
You also got to take into account that the compilers for the AMD Opterons are about 6 months old, the Intel Itanium compilers are years old, and made by the people that make the processors.
The structure of American capitalism is such that the CEO of an enterprise is legally obligated to maximize shareholder value.
a) with the advent of multinational corps, I'm not sure what American capitolism is
b) where do CEOs' salaries come into place here?
c) CEOs and all other ppl are morally and ethically obligated to all of us, not just shareholders
A small team of developers in Rwanda was just beginning work on a project to produce a localized version of OpenOffice....
:)
This is why linux has flourished with developers. It was by developers for developers. This is nothing new, we know the difference, and are willing to make it work to suit our needs.
Scientists seem to feel OK with Linux, *NIX, and open-source software as well.
Its that damned 99% of the rest of the population that we have problems with
If it can't get the hardware to work correctly, there must be a problem. In my experience, its difficult to tell the difference between a software and hardware problem on a windows machine because there are just strange app crashes. Whereas if there is _any_ problem with a linux machine, I assume its hardware. Also, the drivers in linux are much more verbose when they have a problem.
Congratulations to AMD, they've been more innovative in the CPU market than Intel (which is a big feat in my book)
Hmm, I don't consider adding 64bit extensions to a 30 year old 16bit processor that was created by another company as "innovative". Wake me up when they have a wide memory bus, flat 64bit archetecture with a low voltage CPU. This is where innovation is going.
you can adress more than 4 gigs of ram with a 32bit prossessor You just need a cludge (kinda expensive/slow) but itspossible speaking of lots of ram, anyone seen those Ram Harddrives they had at CES a couple years ago
Bullshit. On 32bit systems, when you ask the OS for memory, it returns a 32bit pointer that cannot be incremented beyond 4gigs for one contiguous chunk of memory. There is a hack in x86 systems to put more RAM available to the whole machine, but not to one app for one chunk of memory.
This is why 64bit machines have been out for over 10 years now, some people need more than a cheap PC to get their work done.
I don't know what bothers me more. People stating their uninformed opinion as fact, or people actually buying it and modding it up.
.bomb inflation), etc.
They make their profit on Xeons, where until recently they have had no competition.
Huh? Intel is the largest manufacturere of CPUs in the world. They have had a net income of about $1b per quarter for the last 4 quarters, they have $16b in the bank. Thier stock has remained pretty stable (aside from the
Being that were I work (a university) and there are THOUSANDS of p3, p4, etc chips and way less than 100 zeons, if they are making all of their profits on those 100 chips that only cost a few dollars more than the other thousands of chips.... Whatever, obviously your wrong.
Take a look at what they're doing - they're going after Xeon - and trying to get a piece of the profit in a market that's consistent with their fab capacity.
They are going after the HPC market, because that is the only market for cheap 64bit CPUs. You don't need a 1.457THz 128bit processor to check passwords on your domain. Sorry all of you Windows admins, being a domain controller is not that big of a deal.
Crunching numbers across 20 processors for 5 days at a time is a big deal. Being able to do that in 2.5 days is a real big deal. Not being able to do that because you can't address more than 4Gigs of memory at a time is a show stopper.
Think before you mod people.
at least they only have done it once :)
xxx-9333 (weed)
Actually the list is updated every 6 months, but the one in November is the bigger of the two because that is the time for the annual supercomputing conference.
I'm not sure how "new" your talking about, but Apple stoped using titanium for their powerbooks because of poor wireless reception issues.
There has always been the possibility that the evidence could have been tampered with before.
Yup.
Since it is digital this only makes it slightly easier to do.
Nope. Try making a md5 or sha1 hash of a photograph. Try replacing a photograph with a slightly different one. Try replacing/altering a digital photograph w/o altering its hash signature. Try replacing/altering a digital photograph that has its hash signature and is in the hands of both the defense and prosecution.
How about the KISS approach?
/opt/foo.x.y.z
/usr/bin ? Its a mess.
/opt/foo.x.y.z'.
install foo.pkg
puts all files in, say,
symlink whatever needs to be symlinked on the system. (a cronjob will remove dead links)
This will allow for different versions of foo, and the user can see what all is contained in foo (libraries, headers, binaries, manpages, readmes, etc). Ever try to do a 'ls' on today's linux systems in
Oh, and the tricky part. To uninstall do 'rm -rf
I'm sure they'll just release this, wait a year or two and then release the "classic" edition for people clamoring for it and they'll make loads of money yet again.
Or they could release both versions on the same release. Recently, I bought the Pink Floyd "Directors Cut" of Live at Pompeii and it has the original and the directors cut versions. I have other dvds that have widescreen and 4:3 versions.
Plus, there are only like 20 or so minutes of different footage, so it would fit on one disk easily.
Bah, I'll just keep buying them.
I'm not sure how it is now that there are so many more developers on the kerrnel, but the kernel used to have its defaults set up for Linus' workstation. I do know that the default out of the box config was to use SMP, which is not going to work for about 99% of the people out there. I just checked to see if this was still the case, and yes, it does default to SMP. However, when I started configuring the kernel on an Itanium based machine, it did automatically fill in the blanks for setting up an Itanium processor.
unavailable to private citizens, but available to corporations
Now I have another reason to incorporate myself besides taxes. Its scaring me how much power corps and multinational corps are getting nowadays.
The real shame is that the elementary ed teachers starting salary dropped significantly. These are people our society depends on, and it it very difficult to keep the best people for the job in there if they can get (and need) better paying work doing other jobs that don't require as much skill or talent.
How significant were your elementary ed teachers to you? How significant were your grades or quality of learning to what you do now?
Face it, for most people school is purely a babysitter until people are 18 years old. Most people only need to know how to read, write, and do simple math. Probably no more than an 8th grade education. In fact, my uncle has about an 8th grade education & I don't see him as being any different than anyone else that works labor jobs.
Back to the teachers, I believe that most of learning is developmental and naturally evolves. FYI, people don't "learn" to walk, it just happens. I don't think that people's education is significant until about 9th grade or beyond, where they can do more abstract thinking, and those that are bright and motivated tend to do well.
So you're volunteering for the same direct feedback to advertisers like "click-throughs" and "page-views" on the web? This is what brought those wonderful obnoxious ads, the popup/unders, flash animated ads, etc.
Me, I'd prefer product placement ads. I believe that they are more effective and noninvasive. What is wrong with "Trading Spaces" being sponsered by Lowes, Home Depot or Sears. How many people that are into bikes at all know the brand of bike that Seinfeld had hanging on his wall? How many people remember a single ad from the 10 or so years that Seinfeld was on?
this sure works for snail mail.
On a qwerty keyboard, b and g are right next to another.
Collar sensors are very common in places where radiation is present, etc. A networked realtime remotely monitored sensor using a computer like this would be used. Or at least one that can record data with a timestamp vs. an idiot light.
If its a normal computer that you can interface with, it would be neat to just talk to it like a Secret Service agent, but I don't think this guy has anywhere near the processing power for that.
Anyway, I find it amusing that slashdoters (including myself) love technology so much, but as soon as there is something new we all scoff at it and ask "Why?".
when you join a typical company, its objective is to make money
I have never, ever seen this as a mission statement of a company. Making money is incedental for work. Remember that saying about "the love of money"?