ASUS nForce Pro 3 motherboards will be available in June. This chipset doesn't support dual processors, however. All other motherboards for the Opteron in the near future are likely to be for servers only, and therefore pricy (and not ATX).
I can upgrade the 8x AGP video later in life, along with the disk I/O to SCSI or whatever. It would have 1 GB RAM from the get go.
The point of bulding this system (or some other one I have yet to dream up) is to have some sort of solid building block of a computer for a few years.
Maybe yes, this thing would be a little hobbled from the beginning, but hey, it's good enough for now.
This would be a primary/dev box. Of course, I don't NEED dual XEONs right now, but they will be nice to have later. And yes, there is a coolness factor to it:-)
For $1300, what the hell. I don't care if it's a perfect system at that price point.
Here is the summary of a dual Xeon system I am thinking about building. It has links to more information about each part, and where cheapest to buy them. I have done a lot of research into this since last weekend, and am still not sure if I am going to do it or not.
For $1300, you too can build a kick ass system like this too. Follow the links.
There are gov't contractor jobs all over the country, not just in DC. I work in the Omaha area for Northrup Grumman who is the #2 gov't contracting company (now that they have just bought TRW) behind Lockheed Martin. Boeing is another big one, and there are many other smaller companies out there.
Not all of these jobs are all that boring either. For the next several years I am likely to be working on modernization efforts to convert old Fortran, C, Ada, and other code to Java. Not bad work at all.
Best of all, most of the people I work with are old. Many are my parents age or older. Looks like job security through attrition to me...
No, this article just shows how interfaces creating abstraction can be implemented between the virtual machine, the just-in-time compiler, and the garbage collector without a performance hit.
This level of separation then allows a better implementation of each of these components to be more easily created. For example, a JIT that supports both Java and CLI is more easy to design and implement. No knowledge of the VM (besides the interface) is needed to do this with ORP.
Excellent comment. My confusions with VMS were with different disks with the same directory structures. Once you know how the system is organized, it's easy.
What if some company, for example Red Hat bought the Alpha technology. Just think how a premier hardware architecture could be marketed along with Linux, which has huge growth potential.
If Linux is to totally dominate, Linux vendors need to come up with some better hardware.
you can buy 2 nice iBooks for the price of one Powerbook. I have an iBook, and have been satisfied for the most part, though I use it about 50% of my computer time.
If you really want to buy an Powerbook, I suggest getting an iBook instead and spend the other $1500 on a PC with a nice 17" LCD display.
The price of PCs have gone down dramatically in the last several years. Even though the price of Windows is the same, or has risen is something that the consumer mostly doesn't see directly. Not many people have done the Windows upgrade since Windows 95 came out. Now they just get a new OS when they buy a new computer. A similar thing happens with Office being loaded on new PCs. Unless consumers *really* start to resent the prices of Microsoft, not much will happen.
You might want to remove the hard drive, and see what happens when you boot it without a hard drive in. Maybe this will give you some sort of clue on what is wrong with it.
If your absolutely have to, buy a 2.5" hard drive adapter for your desktop machine. You can then format the laptop hard drive from that.
Wow, what a fucking troll. Caldera is the most-bashed company/distro, and for very little reason. They have contributed much back to the open-source community, and have tried to follow-through on legit businesses practices that they hope will keep their company afloat.
Their distribution is one of the most stable and coherent of them all. I was sad to see them wanting to do this UnitedLinux crap. They are just trying to survive.
My brother's girlfriend Danyel gave me this purply long skirt thingy. It is soo cool. I would wear it to school tommorow, but there are these kids in the loccer room who hate gay people.
This guy has a lot going for him. He can crack any kid's computer that tried to beat him up.
at future shows. I think they will learn their lesson from the backlash they will get about this. MacWorld has had their own rumors, but they are not being barred.
These sites will just have to sit one out. I will be interested to see what happens at this show. Something big must going to be going down.
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What after after you add in RAM? You will have to find something that will hold memory parallel with motherboard. Good luck brother...
I think your only hope is motherboards for laptops.
ASUS nForce Pro 3 motherboards will be available in June. This chipset doesn't support dual processors, however. All other motherboards for the Opteron in the near future are likely to be for servers only, and therefore pricy (and not ATX).
I can upgrade the 8x AGP video later in life, along with the disk I/O to SCSI or whatever. It would have 1 GB RAM from the get go.
:-)
The point of bulding this system (or some other one I have yet to dream up) is to have some sort of solid building block of a computer for a few years.
Maybe yes, this thing would be a little hobbled from the beginning, but hey, it's good enough for now.
This would be a primary/dev box. Of course, I don't NEED dual XEONs right now, but they will be nice to have later. And yes, there is a coolness factor to it
For $1300, what the hell. I don't care if it's a perfect system at that price point.
Seriously, go 15k ultra 320 scsi.
:-)
I would if I could afford the costs on top of $1300 (which would be several hundred). Maybe that will come later
I just with that board had a PCI-X slot, the other versions of it with are a lot more expensive.
Here is the summary of a dual Xeon system I am thinking about building. It has links to more information about each part, and where cheapest to buy them. I have done a lot of research into this since last weekend, and am still not sure if I am going to do it or not.
For $1300, you too can build a kick ass system like this too. Follow the links.
They are running it on there as an "exclusive".
Give this a try. It's a free, advanced web-based bookmarking service. Lots of features.
Apple has not said anything about the 970 yet. How can he know they are switching if there has been no PR? ;-)
There are gov't contractor jobs all over the country, not just in DC. I work in the Omaha area for Northrup Grumman who is the #2 gov't contracting company (now that they have just bought TRW) behind Lockheed Martin. Boeing is another big one, and there are many other smaller companies out there.
Not all of these jobs are all that boring either. For the next several years I am likely to be working on modernization efforts to convert old Fortran, C, Ada, and other code to Java. Not bad work at all.
Best of all, most of the people I work with are old. Many are my parents age or older. Looks like job security through attrition to me...
Ask Theo in 5 years.
No, this article just shows how interfaces creating abstraction can be implemented between the virtual machine, the just-in-time compiler, and the garbage collector without a performance hit.
This level of separation then allows a better implementation of each of these components to be more easily created. For example, a JIT that supports both Java and CLI is more easy to design and implement. No knowledge of the VM (besides the interface) is needed to do this with ORP.
Overall, a very impressive article.
Excellent comment. My confusions with VMS were with different disks with the same directory structures. Once you know how the system is organized, it's easy.
What if some company, for example Red Hat bought the Alpha technology. Just think how a premier hardware architecture could be marketed along with Linux, which has huge growth potential.
If Linux is to totally dominate, Linux vendors need to come up with some better hardware.
you can buy 2 nice iBooks for the price of one Powerbook. I have an iBook, and have been satisfied for the most part, though I use it about 50% of my computer time.
If you really want to buy an Powerbook, I suggest getting an iBook instead and spend the other $1500 on a PC with a nice 17" LCD display.
Wow, I never thought I would see a dupe on the main page of Slashdot with the original story. This is really incredible.
I have to say, my desire to come to this site has been weakening of late, and shit like this makes just kills people's respect for Slashdot.
Are there any other sites that provide similar news stories in a more professional manner? Are there any alternatives?
See http://books.mozdev.org/chapters/ch12.html for an introduction to using PHP with XUL.
The background music in these ads is about as annoying as Will Ferrell. These switch ads are about as stale as Cowboy Neal in a Slashdot poll.
I would like to see Steve Job in a Switch ad. Now that would be funny. Then please retire the campaign after that Apple.
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The price of PCs have gone down dramatically in the last several years. Even though the price of Windows is the same, or has risen is something that the consumer mostly doesn't see directly. Not many people have done the Windows upgrade since Windows 95 came out. Now they just get a new OS when they buy a new computer. A similar thing happens with Office being loaded on new PCs. Unless consumers *really* start to resent the prices of Microsoft, not much will happen.
Microtel PCs. Good 'nuff for the classroom, unless you want Windows on there.
The answer is here.
You might want to remove the hard drive, and see what happens when you boot it without a hard drive in. Maybe this will give you some sort of clue on what is wrong with it.
If your absolutely have to, buy a 2.5" hard drive adapter for your desktop machine. You can then format the laptop hard drive from that.
Recent interview post here. Stuart is awesome (he wrote Bolo).
Maybe you could use a packet sniffer and see if you are getting other stuff on your line. If you are, then it's not a true T1.
Wow, what a fucking troll. Caldera is the most-bashed company/distro, and for very little reason. They have contributed much back to the open-source community, and have tried to follow-through on legit businesses practices that they hope will keep their company afloat.
Their distribution is one of the most stable and coherent of them all. I was sad to see them wanting to do this UnitedLinux crap. They are just trying to survive.
Idiot.
My brother's girlfriend Danyel gave me this purply long skirt thingy. It is soo cool. I would wear it to school tommorow, but there are these kids in the loccer room who hate gay people.
This guy has a lot going for him. He can crack any kid's computer that tried to beat him up.
at future shows. I think they will learn their lesson from the backlash they will get about this. MacWorld has had their own rumors, but they are not being barred.
These sites will just have to sit one out. I will be interested to see what happens at this show. Something big must going to be going down.