Wouldn't putting blocks in place to silently discard this email then, by circumventing its spread, be considered a violation of the DMCA and punishable by 25k per incident? Wouldn't it?
The reason that IBM RS/6000s are replacing SUN servers is that IBM RS/6000s are real "Enterprise" servers (where "Enterprise" can be taken to mean anything, really; this context would be large machines...) and AIX is a real OS. Solaris is feature-poor and poorly executed by comparison. Two reasons: SMIT and JFS. If you counter with "admintool" and "Veritas" I will point you to the door. If you counter that sunfire 15ks are really equivalent to mainframes, I will point you to the door. If you have used dsh on an SP frame, and go to a SUN "cluster" and expect the same functionality, just don't bother. There are so many things that are so well thought out on AIX and hacked together in Solaris....
Oh, and as mentioned below, 8 MB of Level 2 cache on the processors and no ECC?!Soft logic errors anyone? WTF?! There must be historical reasons that Solaris is considered the most pristine Unix; I don't know them. I do know that Linux works fine for almost everything, and AIX will handle the rest. Hell, HP-UX rocks as soon as you get over its quirkiness, mostly because the hardware is so freaking good. But Sun/Solaris is the microsoft of Unix (technically, anyway).
If you want to compare architectures, try doing a comparison between 40 MHz Motorola 68ks at 1 GHz (simple multiplication folks) and the UltraSPARC III at 1 GHz. Notice that there isn't much of a difference. That should clue you in to the level of architectural advancement present in UltraSPARC IIIs, namely, not too freaking much. Tricks to keep the pipeline full, maybe, but they are definately not 7th generation processors. Mostly 3rd generation processors with lots of L2 cache.
Seems interesting that in two places where the FBI has screwed up royally in the past decade they have agents on the take.
Albuquerque=Wen Ho Lee Scandal, where the FBI lied to a Federal Judge to keep an innocent man in solitary confinement for almost a year. This prompted the Federal Judge to apologize on behalf of the Judicial Branch of the Federal Government for the treatment that Wen Ho Lee received.
Oklahoma City=Timothy McVee bombed a Federal Building, and the FBI was clueless until the bomb went off that the building was a target.
Now we know what the FBI was doing in those cases: lining their pockets selling our trust for cold hard cash. Not investigating, not doing THEIR JOBS, but letting people's lives get ruined while they made FAT PILES OF MONEY. That's just great.
Obviously FBI agents don't get paid enough to protect the United States; it is far more valuable to use the tools at their disposal to make piles of cash from insider trading.
Also, those of us who remember when IBM announced its desire to use SOI and Low-k dielectrics and Intel snubbed them are now giggling like schoolgirls....
Not exactly, they use mini-PCI cards (if your RJ-45 port works in concert with your modem, then you have a combo card). Its located under one of those screw on covers, along with the memory SO-DIMMS.
Oh, you mean I have to look for a job?
on
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yes the days of 5-figure signing bonuses, new BMWs, and 16-year olds getting paid 6-figures are over. Try saving money when you are working to cover when you aren't. Try NOT keeping up with the Jones'. Try to keep two years expenses in liquid assets, its empowering. If you can't save two years' expenses, try reducing your expenses. A 5 year-old Honda runs just as well as a new one. A Toyota will get you to work forever; if you want a Mercedes don't buy a house. Try exercising a little restraint and in return you will gain the serenity of knowing that you are NOT tied to a job, that you CAN LEAVE anytime you want. Capital is empowering; ask your CEO. Live moderately, and you'll be suprised how LITTLE money you require. Try a little bit of personal responsibility instead of always asking Big Brother for a helping hand; that hand is the one in your pocket, around your throat. Try NOT needing any assistance to live, its good for you.
Razor blades are cryogenically cooled to increase their hardness, this is due to the intricacies of carbon steel metallurgy. Some people have now jumped on the bandwagon, claiming that LN2 is the wonder heat treatment for all sorts of materials. Links to reaserch on this would be appreciated since this is an emerging science, but AFAIK for most metals cryogenic treatments are bunk....
I always liked Kimagure Orange Road, Video Girl Ai, Maison Ikkoku, Marmalade Boy, the Studio Ghibli stuff (Totoro etc.), . For some reason I associate better with anime directed at girls.... The robotic kill anime as a genre can get old, the softer series tend to express the quirkiness of Japanese life better (as the melodramatic SitComs from the US tend to accurately portray US life, right?!) or at least the Ideal Japanese Life....
Assume the Model T ran on a "secret" formula of gasoline. Further assume that Ford had 90% of the car market and witheld the secret formula from any gasoline seller who dared to make regular gasoline to fuel other makes (Olsmobile, Benz, etc.). Also, they changed formulas every three years or so to one that would barely power the old car but worked well in their newest model. Would there be any other car makers today? Would we have had the innovation of Cadillac, Cherolet, or any other domestic make? Is one lucky play (using mass production on a large scale) enough to justify Mr. Ford's dominance of the car business in the US?
Does Mr. Gate's foresight to sell IBM an OS he didn't have entitle him to own your desktop forever? It isn't innovating when you fall into a monopoly and then use every tactic at your disposal to guard it. Had Microsoft faced an intransigent monopolist and beaten them in the market, they would have an appreciation for competition. As is, they have yet to be bloodied, they haven't cut their eye teeth on fair competition.
Don't be too suprised to see their political contributions soar. They have the war chest to support it, and they obviously cannot stoop to fair competition. Their only out is to line the pockets of anyone who has power over DoJ appointments...
DeCSS and mp3 are just steps in the evolution of media. The existant distribution organizations don't fear piracy, they fear obsolecence. Mp3 puts the power of distribution in the hands of the artist, should they choose to exercise it, and can remove Columbia/Sony and Time/Warner from the gravy train of artistic exploitation. Open production and independent distribution of movies, the ability to create inexpensive physical media formats attacks the studios' stranglehold on production, threatens their ability to prostitute those artists who create. They should fear digital media, for it is through these various channels that their exploitative, manipulative relationship with their customers will be overthrown by artists who strive for a more individualistic, human connection with their audience. Musicians and actors don't perform for money only; they perform because they can, they enjoy the act. And their audiences enjoy rewarding them for it. And all these advancements enable, once society has matured enough to accept it, is more efficient exchange between these two groups.
hey, I always exclude the adfu.blockstackers.com host from junkbusters...like so: (editing the blocklist file that you call in your junkbstr.ini file...)
~adfu.blockstackers.com
I use it as the last line, I think its necessary for it to be there...
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Wouldn't putting blocks in place to silently discard this email then, by circumventing its spread, be considered a violation of the DMCA and punishable by 25k per incident? Wouldn't it?
The reason that IBM RS/6000s are replacing SUN servers is that IBM RS/6000s are real "Enterprise" servers (where "Enterprise" can be taken to mean anything, really; this context would be large machines...) and AIX is a real OS. Solaris is feature-poor and poorly executed by comparison. Two reasons: SMIT and JFS. If you counter with "admintool" and "Veritas" I will point you to the door. If you counter that sunfire 15ks are really equivalent to mainframes, I will point you to the door. If you have used dsh on an SP frame, and go to a SUN "cluster" and expect the same functionality, just don't bother. There are so many things that are so well thought out on AIX and hacked together in Solaris....
Oh, and as mentioned below, 8 MB of Level 2 cache on the processors and no ECC?!Soft logic errors anyone? WTF?! There must be historical reasons that Solaris is considered the most pristine Unix; I don't know them. I do know that Linux works fine for almost everything, and AIX will handle the rest. Hell, HP-UX rocks as soon as you get over its quirkiness, mostly because the hardware is so freaking good. But Sun/Solaris is the microsoft of Unix (technically, anyway).
If you want to compare architectures, try doing a comparison between 40 MHz Motorola 68ks at 1 GHz (simple multiplication folks) and the UltraSPARC III at 1 GHz. Notice that there isn't much of a difference. That should clue you in to the level of architectural advancement present in UltraSPARC IIIs, namely, not too freaking much. Tricks to keep the pipeline full, maybe, but they are definately not 7th generation processors. Mostly 3rd generation processors with lots of L2 cache.
Seems interesting that in two places where the FBI has screwed up royally in the past decade they have agents on the take.
Albuquerque=Wen Ho Lee Scandal, where the FBI lied to a Federal Judge to keep an innocent man in solitary confinement for almost a year. This prompted the Federal Judge to apologize on behalf of the Judicial Branch of the Federal Government for the treatment that Wen Ho Lee received.
Oklahoma City=Timothy McVee bombed a Federal Building, and the FBI was clueless until the bomb went off that the building was a target.
Now we know what the FBI was doing in those cases: lining their pockets selling our trust for cold hard cash. Not investigating, not doing THEIR JOBS, but letting people's lives get ruined while they made FAT PILES OF MONEY. That's just great.
Obviously FBI agents don't get paid enough to protect the United States; it is far more valuable to use the tools at their disposal to make piles of cash from insider trading.
Also, those of us who remember when IBM announced its desire to use SOI and Low-k dielectrics and Intel snubbed them are now giggling like schoolgirls....
Check EETimes for the whole unabridged story.
http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20011126S0031
Not exactly, they use mini-PCI cards (if your RJ-45 port works in concert with your modem, then you have a combo card). Its located under one of those screw on covers, along with the memory SO-DIMMS.
yes the days of 5-figure signing bonuses, new BMWs, and 16-year olds getting paid 6-figures are over. Try saving money when you are working to cover when you aren't. Try NOT keeping up with the Jones'. Try to keep two years expenses in liquid assets, its empowering. If you can't save two years' expenses, try reducing your expenses. A 5 year-old Honda runs just as well as a new one. A Toyota will get you to work forever; if you want a Mercedes don't buy a house. Try exercising a little restraint and in return you will gain the serenity of knowing that you are NOT tied to a job, that you CAN LEAVE anytime you want. Capital is empowering; ask your CEO. Live moderately, and you'll be suprised how LITTLE money you require. Try a little bit of personal responsibility instead of always asking Big Brother for a helping hand; that hand is the one in your pocket, around your throat. Try NOT needing any assistance to live, its good for you.
Razor blades are cryogenically cooled to increase their hardness, this is due to the intricacies of carbon steel metallurgy. Some people have now jumped on the bandwagon, claiming that LN2 is the wonder heat treatment for all sorts of materials. Links to reaserch on this would be appreciated since this is an emerging science, but AFAIK for most metals cryogenic treatments are bunk....
andy
No, LN2 is at 77K (which is -273C+77C=-196C) at STP. Your lack of understanding about absolute and relative temperature scales disturbs me....
Try learning/thinking before talking/posting. People will respect you more.
andy
I always liked Kimagure Orange Road, Video Girl Ai, Maison Ikkoku, Marmalade Boy, the Studio Ghibli stuff (Totoro etc.), . For some reason I associate better with anime directed at girls.... The robotic kill anime as a genre can get old, the softer series tend to express the quirkiness of Japanese life better (as the melodramatic SitComs from the US tend to accurately portray US life, right?!) or at least the Ideal Japanese Life....
Assume the Model T ran on a "secret" formula of gasoline. Further assume that Ford had 90% of the car market and witheld the secret formula from any gasoline seller who dared to make regular gasoline to fuel other makes (Olsmobile, Benz, etc.). Also, they changed formulas every three years or so to one that would barely power the old car but worked well in their newest model. Would there be any other car makers today? Would we have had the innovation of Cadillac, Cherolet, or any other domestic make? Is one lucky play (using mass production on a large scale) enough to justify Mr. Ford's dominance of the car business in the US?
Does Mr. Gate's foresight to sell IBM an OS he didn't have entitle him to own your desktop forever? It isn't innovating when you fall into a monopoly and then use every tactic at your disposal to guard it. Had Microsoft faced an intransigent monopolist and beaten them in the market, they would have an appreciation for competition. As is, they have yet to be bloodied, they haven't cut their eye teeth on fair competition.
Don't be too suprised to see their political contributions soar. They have the war chest to support it, and they obviously cannot stoop to fair competition. Their only out is to line the pockets of anyone who has power over DoJ appointments...
DeCSS and mp3 are just steps in the evolution of media. The existant distribution organizations don't fear piracy, they fear obsolecence. Mp3 puts the power of distribution in the hands of the artist, should they choose to exercise it, and can remove Columbia/Sony and Time/Warner from the gravy train of artistic exploitation. Open production and independent distribution of movies, the ability to create inexpensive physical media formats attacks the studios' stranglehold on production, threatens their ability to prostitute those artists who create. They should fear digital media, for it is through these various channels that their exploitative, manipulative relationship with their customers will be overthrown by artists who strive for a more individualistic, human connection with their audience. Musicians and actors don't perform for money only; they perform because they can, they enjoy the act. And their audiences enjoy rewarding them for it. And all these advancements enable, once society has matured enough to accept it, is more efficient exchange between these two groups.
Tunnel farming off Luna City anyone?
Reserve my room at the Grand Raffles now please...
andy
hey, I always exclude the adfu.blockstackers.com host from junkbusters...like so:
(editing the blocklist file that you call in your junkbstr.ini file...)
~adfu.blockstackers.com
I use it as the last line, I think its necessary for it to be there...
have fun...
Andy