We ordered a Sun Blade when it came out, back in November. We still haven't seen it yet. Sun keeps claiming that
it will ship Real Soon Now(tm).
We have one in our firm - 2X750MHz, 2GB RAM, 2X36GB 10k RPM FCAL disks, two Sun 17 inch (I think) flat panels - but we do buy quite a bit of Sun kit. The faceplate lights up, which is sort of cool. A guy who looks after some of our Starfires has it under his desk, and I went on a pilgrimage to his desk to see it back in mid-December.
I sort of suspected it might be. I started typing something about "perhaps it's in contrib" and then though "hmm so why did I have to pick up the XFree 4.0 package from linuxmafia.org last time" - answer : I probably didn't do enough research!
Slashdot digs up a file with release n+1 version information in it. Just one text file. They immediately post it to the front page "release n+1" is released. This shows they have completely lost connectivity with the clue server. Then when they are shown up it's slackware that's being "rude" and resort to sarcasm. Jesus Christ that is so _fucking_ lame, not funny at all actually. Note, I don't usually swear much. And shame on me for believing them and increasing their page hits in their shabby discussion forum.
For those of you with carpal tunnel, simply cut and paste comments of your choice from previous slackware releases to save all that typing e.g.
Slackware 7.1 stable released.
But seriously, I'm a slackware subscriber since '96 and I'm pleased to get a new release at the start of a long weekend. Perhaps I will even get both slack machines upgraded before the actual CDs arrive! With protopkg and other recent innovations I'm pretty excited about Slackware, but I really would have liked to see XFree 4.0something in there as an option at install time for my GeForce DDR.
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By then, the electricity bill for riding to work will be more than a days pay, at least in California.
The Sun ULTRA2 (or maybe ULTRA1?) can do two NTSC size MPEG2 streams at once using the "VIS extensions" (which are a bit like AltiVec,
SSE/SSE2/3DNow/all the other SIMD extensions). I don't know if that includes an audio track, or disk I/O. The ULTRA2 is many years old and no longer sold
by Sun. I assume the newer systems can do a way better job.
Note: the Ultra2 may not be all that fast, but I think the PDIST (or PDIFF?) instruction is extreamly MPEG2-codec-centric and helps make up a lot of ground
in this benchmark.
Aren't you thinking of MPEG2 _decoding_? Ultra 1s ran at, what, 167MHz, something like that? Ultra 2s maxed out at something like 300MHz. I seriously doubt a 300MHz UltraSPARC II is about 4X faster than a Motorola "G4".
The only cpu in the UltraSPARC II days that could do real-time MPEG2 encoding was the Alpha 21264, let alone two streams.
Pick an account. Aol, yahoo, whatever. Start replying to spams. Act interested. Act like some idiot fool with cash to burn. Sure, you'll get added to even more lists, but odds are that the original spammer will REPLY TO YOU to get more information.
And what do we now have? THE SPAMMER'S ADDRESS.
Maybe it's not his personal account. But it sure as heck is one he cares about. He checks it for his business. It is very critical for him to have a business account to contact his clients (cough-easymarks-cough).
This sounds very promising, except that spammers are normally either reachable by phone, or they have a website they are promoting. From what I've heard about reading up about spam in various forums, they don't tend to use a real email address to do business - well, they'd get spammed if they did that, wouldn't they!
I agree with what you say, but places that filter port 25 simply provide an SMTP smarthost that you can send your email through instead. It's one line in the sendmail configuration, and often their smarthost is allowed to send email to more servers than your home machine would be anyway (e.g. if you claim to be in some domain they don't know about). I think it's a good compromise myself.
What's this "point" and "we" crap? There doesn't have to be a "point" and "we" aren't spending any time running Linux on obscure anything.
If I had a Dreamcast, or for that matter a room full of supercomputers, or a digital watch with a cpu, I might think it was fun to try to run Linux on it. Or some kind of BSD, or BeOS, or whatever.
It's not for you to tell me not to because that effort should be spent on making Linux commercially ready. What happens if I couldn't care less for commerciality, desktop-focus or robustness? Nothing. It's my hardware, my time, my effort. If I do something useful in my efforts, then the other linux efforts may benefit, if not, then tough!
It is a pretty good title, perhaps I'm just being a little too literal. It wouldn't be the first time. I still laugh when I remember his analogy of operating systems as car salesmen - the bit that was something like :
Linux Guy : Our free tank does 200 mph whilst never needing gas. When it breaks we will come to your house to fix it.
This is a good debunking of Neal Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line". In the beginning there was no command line, and when someone invented it, it was as "revolutionary" as graphical user interfaces where when Douglas Englebart invented them. They are certainly not an intrinsic part of any computer as he seems to imply.
A better title would have been "In the beginning was the sheep". Sheep produce wool, so man invented the loom. Then Jacquard invented the programmable loom. Then Ada Lovelace wrote "punch cards" for it and thus was programming invented.
The first "sequel" was so bad it became the first Sci-Fi book I've thrown away (recycled actually) in about 15 years. I'm not interested in being fooled twice. About the best I can say is that it was nice and big and hence I didn't run out of something to read when I was stuck in an airport. Someone talented at literary analysis could do a great "Why Frank Herbert was such a good writer" by noting the things that made his Dune books better than these even with similar characters, plot, settings, language etc.
Hopefully the legacy found in Unix and to a larger degree in Domain/OS (anyone else remember Apollo?) will live on.
Yes, I worked on Apollo workstations in the 80s at Birmingham University in England. They were effing fantastic for their time. The group I worked for would do large non-linear finite element analysis of plastic deformation (e.g. forged con-rods) using parallel fortran jobs spread across all the workstation cpus on the network. Although this was slow, it was still much faster than submitting the jobs to the University computer centre which was running, yes, you guessed it, MULTICS!
Last time I talked to my old supervisor they had transitioned OSes as follows
MULTICS->DOMAIN/OS->Irix->Linux
He seemed to be quite pleased they had skipped the Windows phase entirely.
Worse, everyone with even a shred of talent was heavily recruited by Wall Street. The guys down there offered $100K if you could even spell
HTML; but they'd expect you to show up, wearing a suit, promptly at 8 a.m. every morning, and wouldn't think twice about expecting you to work
until midnight for long stretches. After all, they're paying you big bucks! (Compared to everyone but the traders.) Techies on The Street are lucky
to last two years before burning out.
This is really exaggerated. The interview process is normally good enough to select semi-decent programmers as a minimum. Many if not all techies get to dress casual these days on Wall St, and most of them do not burn out after two years. On the other hand, $100k is NOT big bucks by Wall St. standards. If you're really good and do work from 8 till midnight a lot, you'd probably be earning 2 or 3 times that in a couple of years.
I read a couple of years ago in Wired that the US army was using Quake models of US embassies around the world to train soldiers to know the layout. This is an obvious extension of that kind of thing. John Carmack has always insisted on the best real-time interactivity. It's no surprise that the Quake2 engine is handy for walking around architectural designs. What is a surprise is that this is "news".
Oh come on, it's not as if the rest of the Star Wars universe had been scrupulously checked for engineering consistency and then the AT-AT ruined it.
It's the feel that's important with George Lucas films, and Empire was among the best.
Can you imagine the Star Wars series with strictly plausible plot devices? :
R2-D2 plugs into a power socket instead of a data port. When his circuit breakers are reset they have to completely reinstall him from cd and get the data from backups, which takes all day.
Han Solo gets frozen in carbonite. When they defrost him he's only good for feeding to Jabba's pig-like guards.
R2-D2 heads off into the desert to find Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke easily finds him 20 ft. away bumping up against a rather tricky step and feebly wiggling his little front leg trying to climb.
Luke finds Obi-Wan, the last Jedi in the universe who survived the slaughter of his entire order. Unfortunately he threw away both his and Anakin's lightsaber many years ago to avoid being identified and now smokes a bit too much wombat resin and only answers to the name "Bob".
Athlon don't support SMP, so don't hold your breath
I held my breath and went to www.amdzone.com et voila :
AMD Demonstrates Dual Athlon System
Date: Tuesday October 10, 2000
SAN JOSE, CA --OCTOBER 10, 2000--AMD today reached a new milestone with the first public demonstration of a multiprocessor
computer designed specifically to work with AMD processors. The demonstration, at the 2000 Microprocessor Forum, consisted of a
computer powered by dual AMD Athlon? processors, the AMD-760? MP chipset, and next-generation Double Data Rate (DDR) memory.
The multiprocessing computer demonstration featured 3D Studio Max, a professional 3D design and modeling application capable of
increasing system performance by using both processors simultaneously.
Slashdot Mirror
This has to be a first... doesnt it?
Well you should have checked with slashdot first before posting such speculation, Jeez!
We ordered a Sun Blade when it came out, back in November. We still haven't seen it yet. Sun keeps claiming that it will ship Real Soon Now(tm).
We have one in our firm - 2X750MHz, 2GB RAM, 2X36GB 10k RPM FCAL disks, two Sun 17 inch (I think) flat panels - but we do buy quite a bit of Sun kit. The faceplate lights up, which is sort of cool. A guy who looks after some of our Starfires has it under his desk, and I went on a pilgrimage to his desk to see it back in mid-December.
I started a thread about this on comp.arch if anyone is still interested.
Someone moderated me as redundant, well that's up to them but it didn't seem redundant when i posted it. I thought mine was the first non-troll post
How does this relate to this story I wonder?
I sort of suspected it might be. I started typing something about "perhaps it's in contrib" and then though "hmm so why did I have to pick up the XFree 4.0 package from linuxmafia.org last time" - answer : I probably didn't do enough research!
Tee-hee this is _so_ funny.
Slashdot digs up a file with release n+1 version information in it. Just one text file. They immediately post it to the front page "release n+1" is released. This shows they have completely lost connectivity with the clue server. Then when they are shown up it's slackware that's being "rude" and resort to sarcasm. Jesus Christ that is so _fucking_ lame, not funny at all actually. Note, I don't usually swear much. And shame on me for believing them and increasing their page hits in their shabby discussion forum.
For those of you with carpal tunnel, simply cut and paste comments of your choice from previous slackware releases to save all that typing e.g. Slackware 7.1 stable released.
But seriously, I'm a slackware subscriber since '96 and I'm pleased to get a new release at the start of a long weekend. Perhaps I will even get both slack machines upgraded before the actual CDs arrive! With protopkg and other recent innovations I'm pretty excited about Slackware, but I really would have liked to see XFree 4.0something in there as an option at install time for my GeForce DDR.
By then, the electricity bill for riding to work will be more than a days pay, at least in California.
The Sun ULTRA2 (or maybe ULTRA1?) can do two NTSC size MPEG2 streams at once using the "VIS extensions" (which are a bit like AltiVec, SSE/SSE2/3DNow/all the other SIMD extensions). I don't know if that includes an audio track, or disk I/O. The ULTRA2 is many years old and no longer sold by Sun. I assume the newer systems can do a way better job.
Note: the Ultra2 may not be all that fast, but I think the PDIST (or PDIFF?) instruction is extreamly MPEG2-codec-centric and helps make up a lot of ground in this benchmark.
Aren't you thinking of MPEG2 _decoding_? Ultra 1s ran at, what, 167MHz, something like that? Ultra 2s maxed out at something like 300MHz. I seriously doubt a 300MHz UltraSPARC II is about 4X faster than a Motorola "G4".
The only cpu in the UltraSPARC II days that could do real-time MPEG2 encoding was the Alpha 21264, let alone two streams.
Correct me if I'm wrong :)
Pick an account. Aol, yahoo, whatever. Start replying to spams. Act interested. Act like some idiot fool with cash to burn. Sure, you'll get added to even more lists, but odds are that the original spammer will REPLY TO YOU to get more information.
And what do we now have? THE SPAMMER'S ADDRESS.
Maybe it's not his personal account. But it sure as heck is one he cares about. He checks it for his business. It is very critical for him to have a business account to contact his clients (cough-easymarks-cough).
This sounds very promising, except that spammers are normally either reachable by phone, or they have a website they are promoting. From what I've heard about reading up about spam in various forums, they don't tend to use a real email address to do business - well, they'd get spammed if they did that, wouldn't they!
I agree with what you say, but places that filter port 25 simply provide an SMTP smarthost that you can send your email through instead. It's one line in the sendmail configuration, and often their smarthost is allowed to send email to more servers than your home machine would be anyway (e.g. if you claim to be in some domain they don't know about). I think it's a good compromise myself.
What's this "point" and "we" crap? There doesn't have to be a "point" and "we" aren't spending any time running Linux on obscure anything.
If I had a Dreamcast, or for that matter a room full of supercomputers, or a digital watch with a cpu, I might think it was fun to try to run Linux on it. Or some kind of BSD, or BeOS, or whatever.
It's not for you to tell me not to because that effort should be spent on making Linux commercially ready. What happens if I couldn't care less for commerciality, desktop-focus or robustness? Nothing. It's my hardware, my time, my effort. If I do something useful in my efforts, then the other linux efforts may benefit, if not, then tough!
No offence intended, but that's how I feel.
It is a pretty good title, perhaps I'm just being a little too literal. It wouldn't be the first time. I still laugh when I remember his analogy of operating systems as car salesmen - the bit that was something like :
Linux Guy : Our free tank does 200 mph whilst never needing gas. When it breaks we will come to your house to fix it.
Joe consumer : Stay away from my house you freak.
in fact, I even bought the book, so I should have remembered the bit about batch programming. It's the title that sticks in the mind however.
I did read it. Batch processing didn't exist in the beginning either. Still I take your point, it's been a while since I read it.
This is a good debunking of Neal Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line". In the beginning there was no command line, and when someone invented it, it was as "revolutionary" as graphical user interfaces where when Douglas Englebart invented them. They are certainly not an intrinsic part of any computer as he seems to imply.
A better title would have been "In the beginning was the sheep". Sheep produce wool, so man invented the loom. Then Jacquard invented the programmable loom. Then Ada Lovelace wrote "punch cards" for it and thus was programming invented.
The first "sequel" was so bad it became the first Sci-Fi book I've thrown away (recycled actually) in about 15 years. I'm not interested in being fooled twice. About the best I can say is that it was nice and big and hence I didn't run out of something to read when I was stuck in an airport. Someone talented at literary analysis could do a great "Why Frank Herbert was such a good writer" by noting the things that made his Dune books better than these even with similar characters, plot, settings, language etc.
Yes, I worked on Apollo workstations in the 80s at Birmingham University in England. They were effing fantastic for their time. The group I worked for would do large non-linear finite element analysis of plastic deformation (e.g. forged con-rods) using parallel fortran jobs spread across all the workstation cpus on the network. Although this was slow, it was still much faster than submitting the jobs to the University computer centre which was running, yes, you guessed it, MULTICS!
Last time I talked to my old supervisor they had transitioned OSes as follows
MULTICS->DOMAIN/OS->Irix->Linux
He seemed to be quite pleased they had skipped the Windows phase entirely.
Seriously, the guy who wrote DOS must be a pretty big geek himself
Maybe, but what's that got to do with Bill Gates? He didn't write DOS.
Worse, everyone with even a shred of talent was heavily recruited by Wall Street. The guys down there offered $100K if you could even spell HTML; but they'd expect you to show up, wearing a suit, promptly at 8 a.m. every morning, and wouldn't think twice about expecting you to work until midnight for long stretches. After all, they're paying you big bucks! (Compared to everyone but the traders.) Techies on The Street are lucky to last two years before burning out.
This is really exaggerated. The interview process is normally good enough to select semi-decent programmers as a minimum. Many if not all techies get to dress casual these days on Wall St, and most of them do not burn out after two years. On the other hand, $100k is NOT big bucks by Wall St. standards. If you're really good and do work from 8 till midnight a lot, you'd probably be earning 2 or 3 times that in a couple of years.
I read a couple of years ago in Wired that the US army was using Quake models of US embassies around the world to train soldiers to know the layout. This is an obvious extension of that kind of thing. John Carmack has always insisted on the best real-time interactivity. It's no surprise that the Quake2 engine is handy for walking around architectural designs. What is a surprise is that this is "news".
Oh come on, it's not as if the rest of the Star Wars universe had been scrupulously checked for engineering consistency and then the AT-AT ruined it.
It's the feel that's important with George Lucas films, and Empire was among the best.
Can you imagine the Star Wars series with strictly plausible plot devices? :
R2-D2 plugs into a power socket instead of a data port. When his circuit breakers are reset they have to completely reinstall him from cd and get the data from backups, which takes all day.
Han Solo gets frozen in carbonite. When they defrost him he's only good for feeding to Jabba's pig-like guards.
R2-D2 heads off into the desert to find Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke easily finds him 20 ft. away bumping up against a rather tricky step and feebly wiggling his little front leg trying to climb.
Luke finds Obi-Wan, the last Jedi in the universe who survived the slaughter of his entire order. Unfortunately he threw away both his and Anakin's lightsaber many years ago to avoid being identified and now smokes a bit too much wombat resin and only answers to the name "Bob".
etc etc
see?
I held my breath and went to www.amdzone.com et voila :
AMD Demonstrates Dual Athlon System
Date: Tuesday October 10, 2000
SAN JOSE, CA --OCTOBER 10, 2000--AMD today reached a new milestone with the first public demonstration of a multiprocessor computer designed specifically to work with AMD processors. The demonstration, at the 2000 Microprocessor Forum, consisted of a computer powered by dual AMD Athlon? processors, the AMD-760? MP chipset, and next-generation Double Data Rate (DDR) memory. The multiprocessing computer demonstration featured 3D Studio Max, a professional 3D design and modeling application capable of increasing system performance by using both processors simultaneously.
It would be nice to do a rebel linux install on our Sun Enterprise 10ks (we have quite a few). Only trouble would be disguising what was going on :
You don't need to see my bootlog (waves hand).
These aren't the cpus you're looking for (waves hand)
You can go about your business (waves hand)
Move along.