Well, I upgraded them for faster machines. (faster is always a relative term) I still have the IPC, kind of as a keepsake. It ran from around 1990 or so until about 1999. By then it was REALLY slow and was maxed out on memory. It also has 207m of hard disk space. ha ha. The LX replaced it, and is still in service (runs as an ISDN answering machine, mail server, webserver, gateway, etc). The SLC I gave away (it was an alarm clock for several years - runs silent with speaker for sound and oclock on the display). No space. The SS10 became my desktop machine after the LX, then I sold it to pay for the SS20. I recently retired the SS20 (5 years?), just to try out a dual-intel machine. (after I figured out how to get a sun usb keyboard working with it - I like the sun open, close, cut, copy and paste buttons).
I have the ultra-10 here at work (paid for it out of my own pocket).
I use sun monitors with all my systems. They sync for PC's and you can buy 21" ones used for between
$250 ~ $500.
Now that I think about it, I had 3rd-party memory in my ss20 once and had to return it. I also had a scsi drive screw up in 92, when I accidentally cut power to the system and fsck errors diverged but I reformatted it and it was fine.
My experiences with PC hardware has been bad hard disks. I had an ASUS P2B-LS motherboard
fail (onboard ethernet died), Abit bh6 (ide #2 died), 2 diamond video cards (older), countless fans - case fans, power supply fans, cpu fans. Keyboards, cdrom(s), mice.
Also, when the suns lose power, they usually come back up afterwards. The pc stuff sometimes reboots, sometimes it doesn't. weird.
I wonder if comparing to some of those compaq proliant machines might be more apples vs. apples. I wonder how they do. Inside they look pretty robust.
I have to say though that sun hardware is MUCH MUCH MUCH more reliable than PC hardware. I've personally owned lots of sun machines over the last 10+ years: IPC, SLC, LX, SS10, SS20, U10 and they have very reliable hardware. The machines have been left on for 24x7 and stuff just doesn't fail. I have pc hardware that costs less, but I've lost power supplies and hard disks. Brushless fans last about a month and I thought I caught on, but even ball-bearing fans on pc's don't always last.
I'd be interessted in hearing how people get their PC hardware to last...
I wonder what kind of advances in media there'll be in the next 100 years.
I can just see them trying to perform some kind of 3d or holographic reconstuction on our media. Or better sound. Or maybe whacko stuff like feel or smell or something.
How could we add extra information or dimensions to what we capture?
A: Subjectively speaking, we find that 20-30 minutes with the BOWGO provides an entertaining and invigorating workout for the whole body. Like skiing or skate-boarding, the BOWGO introduces and element of control that challenges balance skill and involves whole-body motion. We have noted improved strength and endurance in bicycling after training with the BowGo. There is evidence that the repeated, sustained periods of acceleration and free-fall provide general strengthening of the body tissues.
Am I the only one who thinks of late-night exercise "device" infomercials when reading this question and answer?
Doesn't this work on the assumption that these signals are line-of-sight and don't reflect?
My satellite dish is mounted on the balcony of my apartment and shoots south. However my line of site shoots over a bunch of buildings/trees/etc that could swamp my dish if a signal from the north reflected into my dish. I would assume the terrestrial signals would be much stronger than the satellite signal overhead and could swamp my reception.
My initial impression of the language itself after looking at the text formatting example is that it looks hard to parse. There's no clear distinction between control syntax and data. I think HTML/SGML/XML looks easier to parse (at least initially)
If this number is sufficiently high enough, they will have to recall the CD.
So buy the CD, then return it as unplayable.
A good reason for this...
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As someone who's worked on classified projects in the past, I think this is great.
When I worked on secret projects, the government requirements for different levels of secrecy really prevented people from using current software and hardware. You just didn't have the luxury. I remember doing lots of typing into 500 pound tempest-approved terminals where the thought of a workstation... well, you just had to get over it.
Think of all the techies lost in the bowels of some government projects sitting at some albatross of system just salivating for an NSA-approved version of linux that they can use... at work!
(let alone the techies that will never work on goverment projects for the same reasons.)
This doesn't apply to just the NSA, it's other government agencies/military and LOTS of outside companies that work on military projects or within their requirements.
I wonder if their perl runs with taint checking always...
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whoops, sorry I'm full of crap. ipx is sun4c. lx is sun4m. doh!
ipx = sun4m
lx = sun4m
Well, I upgraded them for faster machines. (faster is always a relative term) I still have the IPC, kind of as a keepsake. It ran from around 1990 or so until about 1999. By then it was REALLY slow and was maxed out on memory. It also has 207m of hard disk space. ha ha. The LX replaced it, and is still in service (runs as an ISDN answering machine, mail server, webserver, gateway, etc). The SLC I gave away (it was an alarm clock for several years - runs silent with speaker for sound and oclock on the display). No space. The SS10 became my desktop machine after the LX, then I sold it to pay for the SS20. I recently retired the SS20 (5 years?), just to try out a dual-intel machine. (after I figured out how to get a sun usb keyboard working with it - I like the sun open, close, cut, copy and paste buttons).
I have the ultra-10 here at work (paid for it out of my own pocket).
I use sun monitors with all my systems. They sync for PC's and you can buy 21" ones used for between
$250 ~ $500.
Now that I think about it, I had 3rd-party memory in my ss20 once and had to return it. I also had a scsi drive screw up in 92, when I accidentally cut power to the system and fsck errors diverged but I reformatted it and it was fine.
My experiences with PC hardware has been bad hard disks. I had an ASUS P2B-LS motherboard
fail (onboard ethernet died), Abit bh6 (ide #2 died), 2 diamond video cards (older), countless fans - case fans, power supply fans, cpu fans. Keyboards, cdrom(s), mice.
Also, when the suns lose power, they usually come back up afterwards. The pc stuff sometimes reboots, sometimes it doesn't. weird.
I wonder if comparing to some of those compaq proliant machines might be more apples vs. apples. I wonder how they do. Inside they look pretty robust.
I have to say though that sun hardware is MUCH MUCH MUCH more reliable than PC hardware. I've personally owned lots of sun machines over the last 10+ years: IPC, SLC, LX, SS10, SS20, U10 and they have very reliable hardware. The machines have been left on for 24x7 and stuff just doesn't fail. I have pc hardware that costs less, but I've lost power supplies and hard disks. Brushless fans last about a month and I thought I caught on, but even ball-bearing fans on pc's don't always last.
I'd be interessted in hearing how people get their PC hardware to last...
I wonder what kind of advances in media there'll be in the next 100 years.
I can just see them trying to perform some kind of 3d or holographic reconstuction on our media. Or better sound. Or maybe whacko stuff like feel or smell or something.
How could we add extra information or dimensions to what we capture?
Simply amazing. It's amazing how much color leads to complete immersion...
What helps is a complete lack of roads and power lines
See this
like most other repo men, he owns his car outright.
Too bad I can't say the same about all the code I've written...
The irony is that the Russians are the true capitalists here...
Q: Is riding the BOWGO good exercise?
A: Subjectively speaking, we find that 20-30 minutes with the BOWGO provides an entertaining and invigorating workout for the whole body. Like skiing or skate-boarding, the BOWGO introduces and element of control that challenges balance skill and involves whole-body motion. We have noted improved strength and endurance in bicycling after training with the BowGo. There is evidence that the repeated, sustained periods of acceleration and free-fall provide general strengthening of the body tissues.
Am I the only one who thinks of late-night exercise "device" infomercials when reading this question and answer?
They have an in-kernel webserver that'll do :-)
12k connections/sec too?
also, I wonder how solaris with the sun in-kernel apache speedups (nca) performs...
I wonder how tux would do...
someone should mod this one up
Too bad this weighs 12,000-13,000 pounds.
I wonder if you can just discard the overengineered search and track radar and put in one of those supermarket door motion sensors...
Koolance is a company with a "mainstream" water-cooled case.
And it's quiet because water cooling is not only used for the CPU, but also hard disk, power supply and graphics card.
Of course, I've seen 4 way powerpc systems that have no cooling required...
hmmm...
netra x1 - 1U @ $995 (small 1U - I think it's only 13" deep). I've never seen PC hardware
that's as compact (though if anyone has any
pointers...)
You can power it on/off and boot through the serial port. It has dual ethernet interfaces
and uses commodity sdram memory and IDE drives.
What if they had those little penguin logo stickers on them?
:-)
Now compare your impression against little windows logos...
Just put them behind a load-balancer.
This is a pretty common way to scale webserving to 'n' machines, while allowing machines to fail.
Or you could use two (or more) of them with
failover. Something where one takes over the
mac address of the other on failure.
or... Imagine a beow... nah...
I meant multipath. duh.
Doesn't this work on the assumption that these signals are line-of-sight and don't reflect?
My satellite dish is mounted on the balcony of my apartment and shoots south. However my line of site shoots over a bunch of buildings/trees/etc that could swamp my dish if a signal from the north reflected into my dish. I would assume the terrestrial signals would be much stronger than the satellite signal overhead and could swamp my reception.
My initial impression of the language itself after looking at the text formatting example is that it looks hard to parse. There's no clear distinction between control syntax and data. I think HTML/SGML/XML looks easier to parse (at least initially)
That's the third time I had to enter my credit card info to post to slashdot.
What's up with that?
Maybe copyright laws should only protect material that can be copied.
The key to this technology catching on is:
How many normal cd players fail to play the CD?
If this number is sufficiently high enough, they will have to recall the CD.
So buy the CD, then return it as unplayable.
As someone who's worked on classified projects in the past, I think this is great.
When I worked on secret projects, the government requirements for different levels of secrecy really prevented people from using current software and hardware. You just didn't have the luxury. I remember doing lots of typing into 500 pound tempest-approved terminals where the thought of a workstation... well, you just had to get over it.
Think of all the techies lost in the bowels of some government projects sitting at some albatross of system just salivating for an NSA-approved version of linux that they can use... at work!
(let alone the techies that will never work on goverment projects for the same reasons.)
This doesn't apply to just the NSA, it's other government agencies/military and LOTS of outside companies that work on military projects or within their requirements.
I wonder if their perl runs with taint checking always...