Furthermore, SLI is a lot like SMP. First off, the game needs to actually be able to take advantage of it. Next, even if the game does, you're not seeing a linear performance boost; that is to say, if you've got a pair of 6800 Ultras, you're not going to see double performance. The rule of thumb is it'll boost performance by about 65% - sure, it's very substantial, but with the premium price on cards already, it's an even less worthwhile purpose. To top it off, you're going to be looking at an extra $50 or so on a motherboard with SLI, and who knows how much extra in cooling.
SMP is not a magical double in performance either. None threaded applications do not get very much of a performance increase with an SMP based system. The same goes for the performance increase you see with threaded applications. Even an application which has been compiled and written to be multithreaded will not see a 100% performance increase on an SMP system. Your arguments against SLI hold for SMP systems as well almost word for word.
I don't know about you, but it takes me less than 30s of my time to download a distro. I can't say I've seen anyone sit there watching every bit coming over the ether. Most people I know start a Download and go on to something else. Then there is the little factor of how much money are most people with day jobs making in the evenings while browsing the web? At 30seconds to 15 minutes of a persons time to start a D/L, I'd say that is fairly negligable. Even to Oracle consultant that gets paid $130/hr is more than likely not going to loose that much in the time spent.
I'm glad they did not. My Treo 600 is the worst phone I've ever used. It is 100% unusable as a phone. Sound cuts out constantly no matter how strong of a signal I get. Conversations sound something like this....
Person on the other end of calls says: I've had a great day. Relaxed all afternoon and ran errands the rest of the day.
I hear: ve d ea y. ax l no d n r d he th ay.
Other issues are only one person can hear the other for extended periods of time which go something like this.
person 1: Are you there? Still there? Can you hear me? #$%^ phone!!! You there?
person 2:Yes I'm still here. I'm here. I can hear you fine. %*&$ phone!!!! YES I'm here.
Two minutes later it is...
person 1:Yes I'm still here. I'm here. I can hear you fine. %*&$ phone!!!! YES I'm here.
person 2:Are you there? Still there? Can you hear me? #$%^ phone!!! You there?
Wonderful phone. I'm so glad going digital and the 2.5/3G networks are so much better than the old networks and technology. Funny how my wife's 6 year old brick gets great reception and never drops a call. Talking on it sounds just as good as our POTs line.
We run a shoreline switch where I work. It is pure junk. Nothing but trouble. Constant dropped calls. Horrible sounding music on hold, so much so that just about customer that calls in a hears it complains. We have swapped out the shoregear24 box already, had three separate consultants out to look at it, had Shoreline Engineers connected directly to our system all to no avail. This is all at one location with customers calling in to the DIDs. We are not even talking about office to office calls.
At one of the.coms I worked at a couple of years ago we ran nothing but trouble there as well. The company was >500 employees and we ran into user limits in the system. There were only so many T1 units we could have on the system if memory serves me correctly.
Shoreline has a VERY long way to go before I would stake my job on them. Not a system to have your company rely on.
...even though I still cannot buy the rom images for the VAST majority of the games I want to play. Show me a Darius rom I can ligitimately buy and I will. I have also bought roms from StarRoms the day it was posted here.
The problem with your little over encompassing rant about admitting to be a pirate is the fact that there are MANY games tat Atari did not produce. It is great I can go out and buy roms. I even bought the little namco TV game which has 5 namco games in the joystick that you plig directly into the TV. I am a long time paying customer of Emusic and have gotten many people to sign up for legal MP3s through them.
Call me a pirate if you will. I will be a pirate until Disney gets off their high horse and releases a legal copy of Song of the South for me to own. If there is product to buy, I do so. I am in my eyes forced to be a pirate by lack of any legitimate options to not be.
Dread PIRATE Roberts
Yeah that was a great feature of that phone for the short time I had it. In the three square feet of service area that phone was able to pick up a signal it worked really really well.
Arguably the king of Perl programming in the windows environment, Dave Roth a few years ago wrote a perl and SQL based solution that provides much of what SMS can do. I don't know if he still has it anywhere on his site anylonger. If he does the full code that he used as well as a lengthy description of how to configure it was provided. You might want to have a look there. Dave is the author of some of the most essential Perl Modules for any Witendoze systems administrator's toolbox. Good Luck.
Well why not? How about writing a modular program? Isn't that part of what Object Oriented programing is all about anyway? Maybe have a configuration program that the user can run to click on which modules the applications will load on startup. Could even get really sick with it and have things that load dynamically, IE: spell check. I don't generally run spell check until I am finishing up a document and starting to profread.
I think Apache does a fair job with this.
Alcohol is fairly commonly used to clean board of solder resin from the manufacturing/repair process. At Motorola we used alcohol quite frequently to clean the boards of all the pagers that ran through. As long as there is no power going through it you can dip the entire board in Alcohol with no ill effects. I would take a small stiff bristled brush to the underside. I used to clean the inside of keyboards with this method before it became cheaper to buy a new one then pay me for 20 minutes of labor.
Remove the MB and any cards. You can use rubbing alcohol to cleanse the boards. That might get any oder off. Make sure to let them dry for a few hours after dipping the boards.
Anyone who has used the prosoft (formerly novells very own client) client on any OS9 macintoshes in a large novell site will tell you what a pain in the ass it is. If you have multiple networks and need to mount shares across a router FORGET IT. Prosoft will tell you it is a Novell Problem, Novell will tell you it is a Macintosh problem, Apple will tell you they have appletalk why do we care what anyone else does. You might get it to mount the share once every 5 times......You may have to attempt to mount the drives 500 times. Good luck to anyone else out there that has to support a crapintosh on a network of real computers.....
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It's the damn unbathed tree hugging hippies and the unmanagable lack of brain waves from the trust fund kiddies there......It creates a vacuum in the area that sucks in not only any rational conscious thought but as an after effect it sucks in radio frequency waves.
Hands down the best editor on windows if you just HAVE to use something other than vi (which comes with the resource kit for NT). Not sure how I got it with 2KPro but from a command prompt vi works like a charm.
You ever hear of a filesystem? Your forcing your server to do something it was not designed to do. I see this all the time, be it on a pop3 server, IMAP or Exchange. People use their email as a repository for EVERYTHING. With IMAP and Exchange it is not as dangerous, but the users out there that save ALL their mail on the local computer always beg for lost data. If you have things you need to save, do so. Save them out somewhere other than Email. When that server goes down for a few hours and your rushing to get a presentation printed for a meeting the sysadmins have NO sympathy for your predicament. The more you stress the server the more chance you have of bringing it down. The better you treat it, the better it will treat you.
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Pres. Admins for the ethical treatment of servers!
Your being generous. I would not run Exchange on anything less than a dual pIII with at least a gig of ram. Remember it is full of "FEATURES" and "FEATURES" take up resources. Exchange, as with all MS products is like a 2 month death sperm whale sitting in the hot coastal sun, it is nothing but bloat and it stinks like the dickens.
I supported a very large Clearcase installation for a multinational company. We had servers all over the world on HP-UX and NT. The license cost while high, is not quite that bad if you use a proper license server and don't do a per seat scheme. I don't know any site where EVERY user has to be logged into the VOB ALL the time. So for a site with 100 users we had 18 licenses and 10 multisite licenses. The ratio of licenses for ClearCase and Multisite does not have to be 1:1. Once properly setup, ClearCase is rather easy to manage. I had to write no more than two perl scripts to do some local view cleanups when computers were removed without releasing the views, but other than that everything is really simple.
Given this though I have to aggree that Clearcase is not the optimal solution for small groups of developers regardless of the Storage requirements. It's main power lies in its MultiSite component and binary abilities. Note that CVS can store binaries but can not do diffs of them. The ONLY real reason I have seen for anyone to put binaries into the repository is for Windows Developers that were strictly required to keep VERY thorough documentation in MS Word format. The repository makes sense for this in that the Documentation is as easy to get to and update as the code itself.
The only thing that would keep me from betting my career on the current AMD CPU lines is the VIA chipset. From a stability standpoint they don't hold up for anything. I would not bet my least favorite user's career on anything that uses a VIA based chipset. While I have no experience with the AMD chipset, everyone seems to only want to push motherboards built on the VIA set. For a gamer running wintendoze I am sure it is fine. Rebooting every couple of days is not an issue for most. But when you want a machine to run as close to 24x7x365.5 it is very much an issue. My 440BX based boards have run for as long as I can remember without a problem.
What many seem to neglect to speak about is how quickly the 4x AGP and PC133 memory advantage is tossed out the window on the first crash. Who needs speed if that speed is unusable. Give my 2x agp and pc100 8 days a week if I can run my computer for more than 6 days a week.
Look at one of last years Linux Journal issues (or was it Linux Magazine?). They had a list of the top 100 most influential open source people. You may want to contact a few of them. Some may even be in your neck of the woods. Western PA should have a fair supply of open source developers and beowolf people.
Then, after they have distributed it with the the operating system (probably in a Service Pak)
Well it is a bit late for fears like that. MS has been distributing a version of Perl for quite some time now. It comes on the NT Resource Kit CD. It is Perl 5. I don't know what build it is. But most of the latest Win32 modules of much value do not work with it any longer. I am not sure if they distribute updated builds in the RK suplimentals. I use Perl on a daily basis in my Winblows NT admin duties. It is a godsend for the junk MS gives for administrators. Do we need MS to put their hands into to stew from which Perl cooks? That is VERY debatable.
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Furthermore, SLI is a lot like SMP. First off, the game needs to actually be able to take advantage of it. Next, even if the game does, you're not seeing a linear performance boost; that is to say, if you've got a pair of 6800 Ultras, you're not going to see double performance. The rule of thumb is it'll boost performance by about 65% - sure, it's very substantial, but with the premium price on cards already, it's an even less worthwhile purpose. To top it off, you're going to be looking at an extra $50 or so on a motherboard with SLI, and who knows how much extra in cooling.
SMP is not a magical double in performance either. None threaded applications do not get very much of a performance increase with an SMP based system. The same goes for the performance increase you see with threaded applications. Even an application which has been compiled and written to be multithreaded will not see a 100% performance increase on an SMP system. Your arguments against SLI hold for SMP systems as well almost word for word.
I don't know about you, but it takes me less than 30s of my time to download a distro. I can't say I've seen anyone sit there watching every bit coming over the ether. Most people I know start a Download and go on to something else. Then there is the little factor of how much money are most people with day jobs making in the evenings while browsing the web? At 30seconds to 15 minutes of a persons time to start a D/L, I'd say that is fairly negligable. Even to Oracle consultant that gets paid $130/hr is more than likely not going to loose that much in the time spent.
I'm glad they did not. My Treo 600 is the worst phone I've ever used. It is 100% unusable as a phone. Sound cuts out constantly no matter how strong of a signal I get. Conversations sound something like this....
Person on the other end of calls says: I've had a great day. Relaxed all afternoon and ran errands the rest of the day.
I hear: ve d ea y. ax l no d n r d he th ay.
Other issues are only one person can hear the other for extended periods of time which go something like this.
person 1: Are you there? Still there? Can you hear me? #$%^ phone!!! You there?
person 2:Yes I'm still here. I'm here. I can hear you fine. %*&$ phone!!!! YES I'm here.
Two minutes later it is...
person 1:Yes I'm still here. I'm here. I can hear you fine. %*&$ phone!!!! YES I'm here.
person 2:Are you there? Still there? Can you hear me? #$%^ phone!!! You there?
Wonderful phone. I'm so glad going digital and the 2.5/3G networks are so much better than the old networks and technology. Funny how my wife's 6 year old brick gets great reception and never drops a call. Talking on it sounds just as good as our POTs line.
I don't know, the penny pincher in me says to just format and re-install the old one.....
We run a shoreline switch where I work. It is pure junk. Nothing but trouble. Constant dropped calls. Horrible sounding music on hold, so much so that just about customer that calls in a hears it complains. We have swapped out the shoregear24 box already, had three separate consultants out to look at it, had Shoreline Engineers connected directly to our system all to no avail. This is all at one location with customers calling in to the DIDs. We are not even talking about office to office calls. At one of the .coms I worked at a couple of years ago we ran nothing but trouble there as well. The company was >500 employees and we ran into user limits in the system. There were only so many T1 units we could have on the system if memory serves me correctly.
Shoreline has a VERY long way to go before I would stake my job on them. Not a system to have your company rely on.
...even though I still cannot buy the rom images for the VAST majority of the games I want to play. Show me a Darius rom I can ligitimately buy and I will. I have also bought roms from StarRoms the day it was posted here. The problem with your little over encompassing rant about admitting to be a pirate is the fact that there are MANY games tat Atari did not produce. It is great I can go out and buy roms. I even bought the little namco TV game which has 5 namco games in the joystick that you plig directly into the TV. I am a long time paying customer of Emusic and have gotten many people to sign up for legal MP3s through them. Call me a pirate if you will. I will be a pirate until Disney gets off their high horse and releases a legal copy of Song of the South for me to own. If there is product to buy, I do so. I am in my eyes forced to be a pirate by lack of any legitimate options to not be. Dread PIRATE Roberts
Yeah that was a great feature of that phone for the short time I had it. In the three square feet of service area that phone was able to pick up a signal it worked really really well.
Ok, I'm going to reply to my own comment but I wanted to give the exact link to Dave's management system.
Arguably the king of Perl programming in the windows environment, Dave Roth a few years ago wrote a perl and SQL based solution that provides much of what SMS can do. I don't know if he still has it anywhere on his site anylonger. If he does the full code that he used as well as a lengthy description of how to configure it was provided. You might want to have a look there. Dave is the author of some of the most essential Perl Modules for any Witendoze systems administrator's toolbox. Good Luck.
Well why not? How about writing a modular program? Isn't that part of what Object Oriented programing is all about anyway? Maybe have a configuration program that the user can run to click on which modules the applications will load on startup. Could even get really sick with it and have things that load dynamically, IE: spell check. I don't generally run spell check until I am finishing up a document and starting to profread. I think Apache does a fair job with this.
Alcohol is fairly commonly used to clean board of solder resin from the manufacturing/repair process. At Motorola we used alcohol quite frequently to clean the boards of all the pagers that ran through. As long as there is no power going through it you can dip the entire board in Alcohol with no ill effects. I would take a small stiff bristled brush to the underside. I used to clean the inside of keyboards with this method before it became cheaper to buy a new one then pay me for 20 minutes of labor.
Remove the MB and any cards. You can use rubbing alcohol to cleanse the boards. That might get any oder off. Make sure to let them dry for a few hours after dipping the boards.
Anyone who has used the prosoft (formerly novells very own client) client on any OS9 macintoshes in a large novell site will tell you what a pain in the ass it is. If you have multiple networks and need to mount shares across a router FORGET IT. Prosoft will tell you it is a Novell Problem, Novell will tell you it is a Macintosh problem, Apple will tell you they have appletalk why do we care what anyone else does. You might get it to mount the share once every 5 times......You may have to attempt to mount the drives 500 times. Good luck to anyone else out there that has to support a crapintosh on a network of real computers.....
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It's the damn unbathed tree hugging hippies and the unmanagable lack of brain waves from the trust fund kiddies there......It creates a vacuum in the area that sucks in not only any rational conscious thought but as an after effect it sucks in radio frequency waves.
Hands down the best editor on windows if you just HAVE to use something other than vi (which comes with the resource kit for NT). Not sure how I got it with 2KPro but from a command prompt vi works like a charm.
You ever hear of a filesystem? Your forcing your server to do something it was not designed to do. I see this all the time, be it on a pop3 server, IMAP or Exchange. People use their email as a repository for EVERYTHING. With IMAP and Exchange it is not as dangerous, but the users out there that save ALL their mail on the local computer always beg for lost data. If you have things you need to save, do so. Save them out somewhere other than Email. When that server goes down for a few hours and your rushing to get a presentation printed for a meeting the sysadmins have NO sympathy for your predicament. The more you stress the server the more chance you have of bringing it down. The better you treat it, the better it will treat you.
GeekBoi
Pres. Admins for the ethical treatment of servers!
Your being generous. I would not run Exchange on anything less than a dual pIII with at least a gig of ram. Remember it is full of "FEATURES" and "FEATURES" take up resources. Exchange, as with all MS products is like a 2 month death sperm whale sitting in the hot coastal sun, it is nothing but bloat and it stinks like the dickens.
I supported a very large Clearcase installation for a multinational company. We had servers all over the world on HP-UX and NT. The license cost while high, is not quite that bad if you use a proper license server and don't do a per seat scheme. I don't know any site where EVERY user has to be logged into the VOB ALL the time. So for a site with 100 users we had 18 licenses and 10 multisite licenses. The ratio of licenses for ClearCase and Multisite does not have to be 1:1. Once properly setup, ClearCase is rather easy to manage. I had to write no more than two perl scripts to do some local view cleanups when computers were removed without releasing the views, but other than that everything is really simple.
Given this though I have to aggree that Clearcase is not the optimal solution for small groups of developers regardless of the Storage requirements. It's main power lies in its MultiSite component and binary abilities. Note that CVS can store binaries but can not do diffs of them. The ONLY real reason I have seen for anyone to put binaries into the repository is for Windows Developers that were strictly required to keep VERY thorough documentation in MS Word format. The repository makes sense for this in that the Documentation is as easy to get to and update as the code itself.
Just my 3 cents worth....
The only thing that would keep me from betting my career on the current AMD CPU lines is the VIA chipset. From a stability standpoint they don't hold up for anything. I would not bet my least favorite user's career on anything that uses a VIA based chipset. While I have no experience with the AMD chipset, everyone seems to only want to push motherboards built on the VIA set. For a gamer running wintendoze I am sure it is fine. Rebooting every couple of days is not an issue for most. But when you want a machine to run as close to 24x7x365.5 it is very much an issue. My 440BX based boards have run for as long as I can remember without a problem.
What many seem to neglect to speak about is how quickly the 4x AGP and PC133 memory advantage is tossed out the window on the first crash. Who needs speed if that speed is unusable. Give my 2x agp and pc100 8 days a week if I can run my computer for more than 6 days a week.
Just MHO.
Look at one of last years Linux Journal issues (or was it Linux Magazine?). They had a list of the top 100 most influential open source people. You may want to contact a few of them. Some may even be in your neck of the woods. Western PA should have a fair supply of open source developers and beowolf people.
Then, after they have distributed it with the the operating system (probably in a Service Pak)
Well it is a bit late for fears like that. MS has been distributing a version of Perl for quite some time now. It comes on the NT Resource Kit CD. It is Perl 5. I don't know what build it is. But most of the latest Win32 modules of much value do not work with it any longer. I am not sure if they distribute updated builds in the RK suplimentals. I use Perl on a daily basis in my Winblows NT admin duties. It is a godsend for the junk MS gives for administrators. Do we need MS to put their hands into to stew from which Perl cooks? That is VERY debatable.
I'd rather not see them and know they were there....