You're not touching the die. You're modifying the "golden bridges" on the carrier.
MTBF vs. 333 hrs/month? Is heat the problem?
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Non sequitur. How does one reconcile their MTBF claims against this restriction of 333 hours/month?
That being said, I've installed about 25 of the 75GXP and 60GXP drives with only one failure. The difference in this case, a dead 40GB 60GXP, is that the cooling for this drive was far less than for the other two dozen or so, and the resulting heat buildup was significantly greater (>30 degrees F higher) There have been claims around the net that heat is the culprit here, specifically overheating of the largest ASIC on the controller board. I tend to agree with this statement, as my still-working drives are in heavily used workstations and servers, with positive external ventilation blowing around these drives.
My advice to owners of these drives: keep them cool and back them up often.
I wonder if the holder of the patent for the 4 pane glass window could argue that the M$ Windows flag logo isn't patent infringement? Undoubtedly that patent is expired, but the thought remains that this could be considered prior art for the 4 panel design that M$ stole from them.
"[H]ow little soldiers are used"? Despite the mass media's fascination with aerial bombardment, much of the real work in any significant conflict comes at the expense of the grunts on the ground. Witness the current operations in Afghanistan. Most of the casualties occur in the ranks of ground troops. Anything that could enhance their survivability will go a long way toward reducing the overall casualty rate of our armed forces.
So what's wrong with bringing stealth technology to the individual soldier?
Patenting time itself and the world's oldest job
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Switzerland and the Netherlands - making mucho dinero from watches, prostitutes, drugs, and flowers and tourism.
Maybe the USPO will grant me a patent for rolling these all together. Let's see, a doped up, tulip carrying, on-time escort service servicing the international airports in Amsterdam and Bern...
Just a quick perusal of the enthusiast gaming sites shows a renewed interest in the ATI products, especially the Radeon 8500. While ATI historically have shown themselves to be less-than-willing to provide quality drivers on a timely basis, there are glimmers of hope with regard to what they see as their best chance to challenge Nvidia for gamer mindshare.
Develop all games in 2D for Linux? Exactly what's wrong with OpenGL? How is DirectX so superior as to condemn Linux to Flatland? Market share? XBox "consolability"?
There are a few other good titles out there that have been developed in OpenGL. Tuxracer and Unreal Tournament are two that come to mind that I've enjoyed on Linux for a long time, both excellent examples of what an Nvidia Geforce series card with vendor support and OpenGL can accomplish.
Indeed, I believe that a good part of the reason that NNSA was created was because of Hazel O'Leary. Between her poor fashion sense vis a vis badging, her idiocy in revealing classified data in public forums (neutron bomb, anyone?), and the Wen Ho Lee debacle clearly show a DOE that wasn't minding the store.
And, BTW, some of those poor badges are still in use, including the one around my neck.
Understand that one of the roles of the DOE, of which the NNSA is a part, is the civilian caretakers of the nuclear stockpile. DOD doesn't have the ultimate authority the nuclear stockpile - DOE does.
It's a subtle distinction, but one well worth understanding.
By law, the directors of the nuclear weapons labs (Sandia, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Livermore, IIRC) are required to certify annually the readiness of the nuclear stockpile. This has been a problem due to the lack of production of tritium in the US, with the exception of a small amount from Savannah River in South Carolina and just recently at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Tennessee. Without sufficient quantities of tritium, the aging thermonuclear arsenal's decay of tritium puts the existing weapons at risk of not functioning within their design parameters. The only thing more frightening than a nuke that works is one that you can't rely on to work when needed. Thus, the directors have threatened to not certify the arsenal.
With this new computing power, the directors can now verify the status of even degraded weapons whose functionality was up till now a mystery and make better decisions about how to use the still small amounts of tritium being produced.
It says that the blatent disregard for the sanctity of life in this communist regime extends to the unborn in all aspects, including these embryos cloned for research.
Despite what many would have us believe, there are higher ideals than scientific advancement that strays outside the ethical bounds.
China is not the oldest state in the world. Their communist government is a relatively newcomer, a sad contrast to their rich history and culture. Thanks to the "purge", they've forever crippled their chances to be a true intellectual powerhouse.
To compare the executions taking place in Texas to those in China is intellectually vapid and morally reprehensible.
The executions in Texas aren't of social and political dissidents, practicing Christians, and others doomed for expressing their viewpoints contrary to the political correctness of the regime. These are people who have chosen to commit so heinous a crime that they deserve the ultimate punishment. The Chinese leadership are slaughtering and imprisoning those who disagree with them.
MacOS X on Intel would be a brave new world. So would defining a minimum standard of hardware that would be supported. There's no reason to support any ISA devices. There's really no reason to support even half of the hardware out there. Tune it toward newer machines and be done with it. Spec it such that it's P4 and Athlon only, PCI and AGP buses only. Hold the vendors responsible for drivers for all but a tightly controlled set of excellent hardware that's certified. Publish the specs for driver interfaces. If it's the hit everyone thinks it would be, the non-approved vendors will break speed records porting to the new platform.
And sit back and watch Redmond collectively sweat.
The problem with your prediction is that Linux lacks unity. It isn't possible to take over the desktop market until development can procede in one direction! The problem with Linux is that you have your Gnome people, you have your KDE people. Still deeper your RedHat, Debian, SuSE, and Mandrake people.
That's where the Linux Standard Base ( http://www.linuxbase.org ) comes in. But even this doesn't go far enough. One thing we need is a convergence of the desktops into one standard, with the flexibility to satisfy us geeks, but easy and familiar enough for the Windoze mob to convert to without undue stress. And we've got to scale up to the challenge of maintaining a single, coherent kernel base as well. The trends in this area aren't very promising, as anyone who's followed LKML lately can attest.
The potential for religious wars over this topic boggles the imagination. We've seen it before, with failure as a result.
These competing camps represent the same sort of divergence from standards and reluctance to cooperate that doomed commercual Unix variants in the 80s from taking over the desktops and datacenters. Sun lead one way; most of the rest, especially IBM and HP feeling threatened by the upstart Scott McNealy and Co., took another path. SVr4 vs. OSF/1. OpenLook vs. Motif. POSIX never was taken seriously by anyone other than the government wonks too lazy to actually research standards (I actually had federal clients write RFPs that required both POSIX and SVr4 compliance simultaneously!).
The Great Monopolist has large amounts of resources that are focused on a single target. We opensourcers aren't as fortunate in this regard. While the multitude of creativity and talent is refreshing and encouraging, if our goal of a unified Linux desktop is to see the light of day, we've got to start defining the end product (note the singular) and develop the standard (singular again) that are our targets.
I caught Phantom Menace at Pleasure Island at Disneyworld. In a word - awesome. The picture was vibrant, the sound was on par with any THX I've ever heard.
RH just became a whole lot more expensive
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RH is blowing a great opportunity with the increase in pricing of XP to stick it to M$.
With RH 7.1 Pro, you got ten machines for 180 days each use of RedHat Network. With RH 7.2 Pro, you get only one machine for 180 days. For a 50 machine LAN, that works out to over US$12000 first year costs ($200 for RH 7.2 Pro, 50 machines/$20 machine/month/12 months + balance of Pro's single machine "entitlement" for 6 months @ $20/month).
Ridiculous! These prices make the boys in Redmond smile, and my clients cry. They're asking about alternatives, even bringing up XP as a potential new desktop! It's a lot easier for some of my clients to spend capital on a mass upgrade than it is for operating expenses, which is where the "entitlement" subscription fees fall.
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You're not touching the die. You're modifying the
"golden bridges" on the carrier.
Non sequitur. How does one reconcile their MTBF claims against this restriction of 333 hours/month?
That being said, I've installed about 25 of the 75GXP and 60GXP drives with only one failure. The difference in this case, a dead 40GB 60GXP, is that the cooling for this drive was far less than for the other two dozen or so, and the resulting heat buildup was significantly greater (>30 degrees F higher) There have been claims around the net that heat is the culprit here, specifically overheating of the largest ASIC on the controller board. I tend to agree with this statement, as my still-working drives are in heavily used workstations and servers, with positive external ventilation blowing around these drives.
My advice to owners of these drives: keep them cool and back them up often.
I wonder if the holder of the patent for the 4 pane glass window could argue that the M$ Windows flag logo isn't patent infringement? Undoubtedly that patent is expired, but the thought remains that this could be considered prior art for the 4 panel design that M$ stole from them.
Andersen? Pella? Anyone?
No way. M$'s doesn't perform well enough to have come from BSD.
"[H]ow little soldiers are used"? Despite the mass media's fascination with aerial bombardment, much of the real work in any significant conflict comes at the expense of the grunts on the ground. Witness the current operations in Afghanistan. Most of the casualties occur in the ranks of ground troops. Anything that could enhance their survivability will go a long way toward reducing the overall casualty rate of our armed forces.
So what's wrong with bringing stealth technology to the individual soldier?
Switzerland and the Netherlands - making mucho dinero from watches, prostitutes, drugs, and flowers and tourism.
Maybe the USPO will grant me a patent for rolling these all together. Let's see, a doped up, tulip carrying, on-time escort service servicing the international airports in Amsterdam and Bern...
If you've got a soggy spot for 14 days straight, you've got a wetland according to the EPA.
Does this mean that my armpits are federally protected?
/. should just mirror these articles themselves. That way, /. would end up being /.'ed by /.!
Just a quick perusal of the enthusiast gaming sites shows a renewed interest in the ATI products, especially the Radeon 8500. While ATI historically have shown themselves to be less-than-willing to provide quality drivers on a timely basis, there are glimmers of hope with regard to what they see as their best chance to challenge Nvidia for gamer mindshare.
Develop all games in 2D for Linux? Exactly what's wrong with OpenGL? How is DirectX so superior as to condemn Linux to Flatland? Market share? XBox "consolability"?
There are a few other good titles out there that have been developed in OpenGL. Tuxracer and Unreal Tournament are two that come to mind that I've enjoyed on Linux for a long time, both excellent examples of what an Nvidia Geforce series card with vendor support and OpenGL can accomplish.
Mostly thermodynamics, plasma dynamics, fluid dynamics, nuclear physics, and about $110M for the iron.
Indeed, I believe that a good part of the reason that NNSA was created was because of Hazel O'Leary. Between her poor fashion sense vis a vis badging, her idiocy in revealing classified data in public forums (neutron bomb, anyone?), and the Wen Ho Lee debacle clearly show a DOE that wasn't minding the store.
And, BTW, some of those poor badges are still in use, including the one around my neck.
That's classified way above DOE Q (the rough equivalent of the DOD Top Secret) level.
Understand that one of the roles of the DOE, of which the NNSA is a part, is the civilian caretakers of the nuclear stockpile. DOD doesn't have the ultimate authority the nuclear stockpile - DOE does.
It's a subtle distinction, but one well worth understanding.
By law, the directors of the nuclear weapons labs (Sandia, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Livermore, IIRC) are required to certify annually the readiness of the nuclear stockpile. This has been a problem due to the lack of production of tritium in the US, with the exception of a small amount from Savannah River in South Carolina and just recently at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Tennessee. Without sufficient quantities of tritium, the aging thermonuclear arsenal's decay of tritium puts the existing weapons at risk of not functioning within their design parameters. The only thing more frightening than a nuke that works is one that you can't rely on to work when needed. Thus, the directors have threatened to not certify the arsenal.
With this new computing power, the directors can now verify the status of even degraded weapons whose functionality was up till now a mystery and make better decisions about how to use the still small amounts of tritium being produced.
We've never used an thermonuclear, fusion weapon ("H-bomb") in combat. The two dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were strictly fission weapons.
The level of misunderstanding of nuclear weapons and the deterrent principles surrounding them astounds me.
It says that the blatent disregard for the sanctity of life in this communist regime extends to the unborn in all aspects, including these embryos cloned for research.
Despite what many would have us believe, there are higher ideals than scientific advancement that strays outside the ethical bounds.
Most better watch crystals are synthetic sapphire, as they're very resistant to scratching and reasonably resistant to shattering.
China is not the oldest state in the world. Their communist government is a relatively newcomer, a sad contrast to their rich history and culture. Thanks to the "purge", they've forever crippled their chances to be a true intellectual powerhouse.
To compare the executions taking place in Texas to those in China is intellectually vapid and morally reprehensible.
The executions in Texas aren't of social and political dissidents, practicing Christians, and others doomed for expressing their viewpoints contrary to the political correctness of the regime. These are people who have chosen to commit so heinous a crime that they deserve the ultimate punishment. The Chinese leadership are slaughtering and imprisoning those who disagree with them.
There's a huge gap there.
MacOS X on Intel would be a brave new world. So would defining a minimum standard of hardware that would be supported. There's no reason to support any ISA devices. There's really no reason to support even half of the hardware out there. Tune it toward newer machines and be done with it. Spec it such that it's P4 and Athlon only, PCI and AGP buses only. Hold the vendors responsible for drivers for all but a tightly controlled set of excellent hardware that's certified. Publish the specs for driver interfaces. If it's the hit everyone thinks it would be, the non-approved vendors will break speed records porting to the new platform.
And sit back and watch Redmond collectively sweat.
That's where the Linux Standard Base ( http://www.linuxbase.org ) comes in. But even this doesn't go far enough. One thing we need is a convergence of the desktops into one standard, with the flexibility to satisfy us geeks, but easy and familiar enough for the Windoze mob to convert to without undue stress. And we've got to scale up to the challenge of maintaining a single, coherent kernel base as well. The trends in this area aren't very promising, as anyone who's followed LKML lately can attest.
The potential for religious wars over this topic boggles the imagination. We've seen it before, with failure as a result.
These competing camps represent the same sort of divergence from standards and reluctance to cooperate that doomed commercual Unix variants in the 80s from taking over the desktops and datacenters. Sun lead one way; most of the rest, especially IBM and HP feeling threatened by the upstart Scott McNealy and Co., took another path. SVr4 vs. OSF/1. OpenLook vs. Motif. POSIX never was taken seriously by anyone other than the government wonks too lazy to actually research standards (I actually had federal clients write RFPs that required both POSIX and SVr4 compliance simultaneously!).
The Great Monopolist has large amounts of resources that are focused on a single target. We opensourcers aren't as fortunate in this regard. While the multitude of creativity and talent is refreshing and encouraging, if our goal of a unified Linux desktop is to see the light of day, we've got to start defining the end product (note the singular) and develop the standard (singular again) that are our targets.
I caught Phantom Menace at Pleasure Island at Disneyworld. In a word - awesome. The picture was vibrant, the sound was on par with any THX I've ever heard.
RH is blowing a great opportunity with the increase in pricing of XP to stick it to M$.
With RH 7.1 Pro, you got ten machines for 180 days each use of RedHat Network. With RH 7.2 Pro, you get only one machine for 180 days. For a 50 machine LAN, that works out to over US$12000 first year costs ($200 for RH 7.2 Pro, 50 machines/$20 machine/month/12 months + balance of Pro's single machine "entitlement" for 6 months @ $20/month).
Ridiculous! These prices make the boys in Redmond smile, and my clients cry. They're asking about alternatives, even bringing up XP as a potential new desktop! It's a lot easier for some of my clients to spend capital on a mass upgrade than it is for operating expenses, which is where the "entitlement" subscription fees fall.
RH, you guys blew it big this time.