IBM understand the mathematics of computing. They know what has to be made to work in order to make the mathematics work for you, not against you.
Systems (all systems, not just computers) have built in mathematics, if you choose one type of system over another without understanding those maths it can cost you a serious bundle. The evidence I've seen in the IT industry generally is that most developers and systems engineers don't understand those maths... Or at least, they don't understand how it applies to reality.
If you take the vehicle off of the regular roads and put it on a track out of the way of most of the complexity we have around us. The algorithms they're using at the moment are synchronous rather than asynchronous, it guarantees that you get a routing slot all the way to your destination without delays. You can get higher capacity using async algorithms but you run into queues and delays within the network then rather than having them outwith the system.
You simply have to face the other direction. At the moment you're basically trying to push a piece of string. Just think how silly you'll sound to your grandchildren when you tell them that's what you did for a living.
Well, closer to 1.2 TB. 40 systems with 32Gb each. Want to know what it's used for? Disk cache... It's virtually all I/O buffer.
All RAM is used as cache anyway. When an application allocates some RAM, it's in lieu of directly manipulating the permanent (disk) storage because it's horribly horribly slow. That's really an operating system failure. Network file systems, disk, RAM should all be completely transparent, the OS should abstract all that away and allow application programmers to handle it simply as storage.
2) Performance - OOo feels less responsive than I'd like, and it takes a long-ass time to load. (Blame java?:) ) Nope. It's your fonts.
Really. Turn off all the anti aliasing, rendering, sub pixel smoothing options in Gnome/XFCE as well as within OOo and then try using the menus, scrolling, switching windows etc. The whole user interface speeds up across the board, (and much of the rest of Gnome, firefox, thunderbird (and xfce) as well)...
It looks like shit, but it's faster shit. Basically Linux needs some good high quality system fonts so that the anti aliasing, smoothing etc aren't required so much. Recommendations on good fonts welcome BTW.
How exactly would this work in remote locations..... like Tibet? ... Exactly as it does here. With people walking, cycling, driving past one another. The beauty of usenet and similar protocols is that they are "flood fill", all it takes is a single instance of the information to escape, and it's more difficult to control 100,000 people than it is a phone / data network.
If this were possible, the government would crack down on it immediately, barring the sale of such phones. If worst came to worst, they could also simply "poison" the NNTP servers by providing their own, and flooding the network with nonsense data. (It should be pretty easy to find some spammers who have quite a bit of experience in the area) Um. This is a peer to peer system with a range of 30 feet and latency of walking/driving speed, in order to "poison" the nntp servers they would have to swamp the radio spectrum. Certainly possible, but it requires infrastructure. It is> possible to do this, we have 30 years experience doing it. Spam is now trivially filterable, better than 99.8% accuracy filtering out crap from both usenet and email is simple.
Also, the ones able to purchase 300mhz smartphones are almost certainly not going to be the discontents. You think so? The "discontents" are the middle classes. They are the ones who have the time, money, education and contacts to plan and execute political change. The first thing that revolutionaries do is get rid of the educated middle classes, because that is where trouble comes from. And a $500 smartphone today is a $15 bog standard phone tomorrow.
This is where something like Usenet is still better than "The Web". It doesn't even require tcp/ip to function and therefore has no centralised control. With something like an NNTP server running on every phone, over bluetooth, it would be pretty much impossible to prevent the spread of information.
Walk past someone in the street and your phone syncs it's "newsgroups" with the other phone. The smartphones around these days are coming with 2Gb of storage and 300MHz processors. More than 100,000 are being purchased per day in China.
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As the US in particular is finding out (yet again) right now. Why on earth would you do more than the absolute minimum business with these people?
Caveat Emptor...
There is a simple solution... Do something else...
Hyperbole.
We all already have networks of servers all running in parallel. Multi core processing is simply squashing the network onto a little bit of silicon.
Nothing to do with deliberate ambiguity fostered by females then.
The problem is money creation itself, of the very nature of banking.
There was a protocol or system which could distribute news to millions of people without causing undue load on the originating servers.
That's natural and this is man made.
It's called leasing.
You should compare leasing costs against buying + finance + depreciation. It's not so different.
between all of the fiefdoms which exist within the company.
Wonderful invention. Buy them by the box.
IBM understand the mathematics of computing. They know what has to be made to work in order to make the mathematics work for you, not against you.
Systems (all systems, not just computers) have built in mathematics, if you choose one type of system over another without understanding those maths it can cost you a serious bundle. The evidence I've seen in the IT industry generally is that most developers and systems engineers don't understand those maths... Or at least, they don't understand how it applies to reality.
If you take the vehicle off of the regular roads and put it on a track out of the way of most of the complexity we have around us. The algorithms they're using at the moment are synchronous rather than asynchronous, it guarantees that you get a routing slot all the way to your destination without delays. You can get higher capacity using async algorithms but you run into queues and delays within the network then rather than having them outwith the system.
Using PDF when he could have forced the entire world to install OOo to read it in ODF format.
MySQL runs web sites.
Almost literally. I know of at least one large multi billion dollar semiconductor manufacturer which basically runs it's fabs on postgresql.
You simply have to face the other direction. At the moment you're basically trying to push a piece of string. Just think how silly you'll sound to your grandchildren when you tell them that's what you did for a living.
Well, closer to 1.2 TB. 40 systems with 32Gb each. Want to know what it's used for? Disk cache... It's virtually all I/O buffer.
All RAM is used as cache anyway. When an application allocates some RAM, it's in lieu of directly manipulating the permanent (disk) storage because it's horribly horribly slow. That's really an operating system failure. Network file systems, disk, RAM should all be completely transparent, the OS should abstract all that away and allow application programmers to handle it simply as storage.
Really. Turn off all the anti aliasing, rendering, sub pixel smoothing options in Gnome/XFCE as well as within OOo and then try using the menus, scrolling, switching windows etc. The whole user interface speeds up across the board, (and much of the rest of Gnome, firefox, thunderbird (and xfce) as well)...
It looks like shit, but it's faster shit. Basically Linux needs some good high quality system fonts so that the anti aliasing, smoothing etc aren't required so much. Recommendations on good fonts welcome BTW.
Evolution is big slow and buggy enough to replace Outlook.
Actually Thunderbird is just as big slow and buggy also.
Sorry...
Benchmark? I'd imagine it's a fairly long ordeal to really and accurately benchmark file copying Nah, it's easy, just do...
time for count in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
do
cp $count.a $count.b
done
Where $count.a are files of various sizes depending on what you want to benchmark.
See?
Do it on XP, Vista and Vista SP1 for us. Yeah, and you could post the average and standard deviations on those benchmarks too.
Thanks.
Oh wait, I forgot... There's a problem with this... You're probably not allowed to benchmark Vista. Have you read the EULA?
If you've nothing to hide...
This is where something like Usenet is still better than "The Web". It doesn't even require tcp/ip to function and therefore has no centralised control. With something like an NNTP server running on every phone, over bluetooth, it would be pretty much impossible to prevent the spread of information.
Walk past someone in the street and your phone syncs it's "newsgroups" with the other phone. The smartphones around these days are coming with 2Gb of storage and 300MHz processors. More than 100,000 are being purchased per day in China.