Rather difficult to tell considering that you cannot run Qmail or Postfix under Windows. If you have any benchmarks of, say, Microsoft Exchange (ha!) outperforming Postfix, we would love to see them.
I worked for a call center for a short while and on occasion we would need to make outgoing calls if requested by customers. Any outgoing calls to cell phone numbers were automatically disabled and could not be made even by the executive manager of the call center. I say this because it demonstrates that it is possible to avoid calling just cellular phones. The outgoing call system did have a few false positives (marking a number as cellular when it was not) but I never did see a false negative.
OT:
Hummers, at least the military ones (HMMWV = Highly Mobile Military Wheeled Vehicle) can not only not go fast without paved roads, it cannot go fast at all.
The top speed of a military HMMWV is officially 55MPH (over any road) but you can sometimes push it to 63MPH. That may or may notr be considered fast, but it is definitely not when you are comparing them to Ferraris.:)
(I do not know about civilian hummers, which are probably different)
I wouldn't say it won't matter much. I made some posts on Storagereview.com which linked to images on my server and almost all of the hits to the server (about 80 of 86) were Mozilla, according to Apache's weblog.
Yes, Tom's Hardware is usually thorough, but it is also usually thoroughly wrong--at least, the reviews written by other than Tom. Read through them. Look at the numbers shown on, say, the CPU articles and see if they have anything to do with the conclusion. I'm serious--not trolling (at least, not intentionally:)
Which asshole moderated this guy as redundant? Do YOU see the content of the text before this message? There is a slow mirror link which is also down, but redundant? Nice thankyou for him bothering to post the text. Sheesh.
Somebody mod this guy up at least back to two, please.
Another few months when the patch comes out and we can all play the most anticipated video game in AD&D history. This is one that I have been looking forward to for years!
Toms is widely regarded, though not on Slashdot, as a tabloid. Read through some of their reviews with a critical eye and you'll see that they frequently make huge, blanket statements which seem to either have nothing to do with, or are least not be proven by their numbers. I find that Ace's Hardware, StorageReview.com, Ars Technica, and Anandtech (even though they use Windows servers) are far more objective and less full of BS.
"but then I have to worry about getting an AMD approved board so my chip doesn't fry."
Slashdot is supposed to be read by those with a clue. What are you doing here?
Entirely too big a deal is made of this. If your heatsink falls off, it was not installed properly to begin with, unless you routinely drop your server from two stories high (and then I bet the CPU won't be the only thing to die) How, exactly, is a heatsink going to simply "fall off" of the CPU? Even if this were a common occurance, simply get a heatsink that uses the four holes on the motherboard rather than clips and the CPU absolutely, positively, will not fall off.
All that said, Athlons do not fry when just the fan dies. They just get really, really hot. I've installed Windows 2000 on an XP1700+ system whose CPU fan was not plugged in (accidentally, of course) and it worked perfectly. I've accidentally unplugged the fan on one of the CPUs in my system and played a game for half an hour before the system locked up. I then turned it back on, assuming that it was just Windows 2000 again, loaded the game, and it crashed again. When I opened up the case, the heatsink was really, really damn hot but the CPU was fine.
I wish everyone would stop jumping to conclusions and look at probabilities instead of possibilities. Possibilities can extent clear into your imagination and have no real meaning. How many of you that stay away from Athlons for fear of the HS falling off never go outside for fear of a meteorite hitting you in the left eye?
The second thing to consider is how the pipeline length affects the execution of your code. The longer pipeline in the P4 means that, roughly speaking, the P4 is faster in a straight line, but Athlons corner better.
That's one of the best examples for explaining pipeline (to non techies) I have ever heard.
Entirely too big a deal is made of this. If your heatsink falls off, it was not installed properly to begin with, unless you routinely drop your server from two stories high (and then I bet the CPU won't be the only thing to die) How, exactly, is a heatsink going to simply "fall off" of the CPU? Even if this were a common occurance, simply get a heatsink that uses the four holes on the motherboard rather than clips and the CPU absolutely, positively, will not fall off.
All that said, Athlons do not fry when just the fan dies. They just get really, really hot. I've installed Windows 2000 on an XP1700+ system whose CPU fan was not plugged in (accidentally, of course) and it worked perfectly. I've accidentally unplugged the fan on one of the CPUs in my system and played a game for half an hour before the system locked up. I then turned it back on, assuming that it was just Windows 2000 again, loaded the game, and it crashed again. When I opened up the case, the heatsink was really, really damn hot but the CPU was fine.
I wish everyone would stop jumping to conclusions and look at probabilities instead of possibilities. Possibilities can extent clear into your imagination and have no real meaning. How many of you that stay away from Athlons for fear of the HS falling off never go outside for fear of a meteorite hitting you in the left eye?
Depends. I had a first-generation 0.25 micron Athlon in a first generation AMD750 chipset-based MSI 6167 motherboard and I ran that 500MHz chip at 800MHz for over a year, then gave it to my mother. Of course, as you said, YMMV.:)
What will your combined efforts focus on to ensure that there are compelling reasons to favor UnitedLinux above more established solutions such as Redhat?
I believe it was Aristotle that taught that the soul (in a non-religious context) is made of three parts:
Appetite, honor, and reason.
One's essence--that is, one's personality and the traits that define him/her, are composed of a mixture of the three, like any color is made of a mixture of R, G and B.
Appetite includes a persons need for gain (i.e. money) Honor includes a persons need for recognition. Reason includes a persons need for knowledge. About 80% of people are mostly "appetite." Good examples of "honor" people are soldiers and journalists; good examples of "reason" people are scientists that find interviews and talkshows "an irritating distraction from their work."
Obviously, ZDNet is mostly composed of those of "appetite" to the degree that they cannot even understand a person which cares for things other than personal gain, i.e. money. Sad...
Slashdot Mirror
The GIF Unisys patent has, IIRC, passed and is no longer an issue. Otherwise, all true. Motice, though: What image format is the Slashdot logo?
...of these guys. They saved the benchmark graphs as JPEG images when a passing glance would make the use of PNG or GIF.
Rather difficult to tell considering that you cannot run Qmail or Postfix under Windows. If you have any benchmarks of, say, Microsoft Exchange (ha!) outperforming Postfix, we would love to see them.
No mindcraft, please.
Of course it doesn't run NetBSD!
I worked for a call center for a short while and on occasion we would need to make outgoing calls if requested by customers. Any outgoing calls to cell phone numbers were automatically disabled and could not be made even by the executive manager of the call center. I say this because it demonstrates that it is possible to avoid calling just cellular phones.
The outgoing call system did have a few false positives (marking a number as cellular when it was not) but I never did see a false negative.
The Nintendo 64 was indeed a 64-bit system. Its CPU is a MIPS R4300 at a little over 93MHZ. The R4300 is a 64-bit processor.
OT: Hummers, at least the military ones (HMMWV = Highly Mobile Military Wheeled Vehicle) can not only not go fast without paved roads, it cannot go fast at all.
:)
(I do not know about civilian hummers, which are probably different)
The top speed of a military HMMWV is officially 55MPH (over any road) but you can sometimes push it to 63MPH. That may or may notr be considered fast, but it is definitely not when you are comparing them to Ferraris.
I wouldn't say it won't matter much. I made some posts on Storagereview.com which linked to images on my server and almost all of the hits to the server (about 80 of 86) were Mozilla, according to Apache's weblog.
"Tom's is usually rather thorough."
:)
Yes, Tom's Hardware is usually thorough, but it is also usually thoroughly wrong--at least, the reviews written by other than Tom. Read through them. Look at the numbers shown on, say, the CPU articles and see if they have anything to do with the conclusion. I'm serious--not trolling (at least, not intentionally
What I am waiting for is the Cray SV2 which can have up to 1024 Cray vector processors. Who needs a beowulf cluster?
Which asshole moderated this guy as redundant? Do YOU see the content of the text before this message? There is a slow mirror link which is also down, but redundant? Nice thankyou for him bothering to post the text. Sheesh.
Somebody mod this guy up at least back to two, please.
Get your wallpaper image if a penguin viciously attacking a Doomknight here!
Poor Doomknight doesn't know what he's up against...
Another few months when the patch comes out and we can all play the most anticipated video game in AD&D history. This is one that I have been looking forward to for years!
BTW, I apologize for my rudeness, but it is getting fairly irritating hearing about that over and over.
Toms is widely regarded, though not on Slashdot, as a tabloid. Read through some of their reviews with a critical eye and you'll see that they frequently make huge, blanket statements which seem to either have nothing to do with, or are least not be proven by their numbers. I find that Ace's Hardware, StorageReview.com, Ars Technica, and Anandtech (even though they use Windows servers) are far more objective and less full of BS.
"but then I have to worry about getting an AMD approved board so my chip doesn't fry."
Slashdot is supposed to be read by those with a clue. What are you doing here?
Entirely too big a deal is made of this. If your heatsink falls off, it was not installed properly to begin with, unless you routinely drop your server from two stories high (and then I bet the CPU won't be the only thing to die)
How, exactly, is a heatsink going to simply "fall off" of the CPU? Even if this were a common occurance, simply get a heatsink that uses the four holes on the motherboard rather than clips and the CPU absolutely, positively, will not fall off.
All that said, Athlons do not fry when just the fan dies. They just get really, really hot. I've installed Windows 2000 on an XP1700+ system whose CPU fan was not plugged in (accidentally, of course) and it worked perfectly. I've accidentally unplugged the fan on one of the CPUs in my system and played a game for half an hour before the system locked up. I then turned it back on, assuming that it was just Windows 2000 again, loaded the game, and it crashed again. When I opened up the case, the heatsink was really, really damn hot but the CPU was fine.
I wish everyone would stop jumping to conclusions and look at probabilities instead of possibilities. Possibilities can extent clear into your imagination and have no real meaning. How many of you that stay away from Athlons for fear of the HS falling off never go outside for fear of a meteorite hitting you in the left eye?
The second thing to consider is how the pipeline length affects the execution of your code. The longer pipeline in the P4 means that, roughly speaking, the P4 is faster in a straight line, but Athlons corner better.
That's one of the best examples for explaining pipeline (to non techies) I have ever heard.
Entirely too big a deal is made of this. If your heatsink falls off, it was not installed properly to begin with, unless you routinely drop your server from two stories high (and then I bet the CPU won't be the only thing to die)
How, exactly, is a heatsink going to simply "fall off" of the CPU? Even if this were a common occurance, simply get a heatsink that uses the four holes on the motherboard rather than clips and the CPU absolutely, positively, will not fall off.
All that said, Athlons do not fry when just the fan dies. They just get really, really hot. I've installed Windows 2000 on an XP1700+ system whose CPU fan was not plugged in (accidentally, of course) and it worked perfectly. I've accidentally unplugged the fan on one of the CPUs in my system and played a game for half an hour before the system locked up. I then turned it back on, assuming that it was just Windows 2000 again, loaded the game, and it crashed again. When I opened up the case, the heatsink was really, really damn hot but the CPU was fine.
I wish everyone would stop jumping to conclusions and look at probabilities instead of possibilities. Possibilities can extent clear into your imagination and have no real meaning. How many of you that stay away from Athlons for fear of the HS falling off never go outside for fear of a meteorite hitting you in the left eye?
Depends. I had a first-generation 0.25 micron Athlon in a first generation AMD750 chipset-based MSI 6167 motherboard and I ran that 500MHz chip at 800MHz for over a year, then gave it to my mother. Of course, as you said, YMMV. :)
What will your combined efforts focus on to ensure that there are compelling reasons to favor UnitedLinux above more established solutions such as Redhat?
Yes, all true. I'm a little rusty on my philosophy, but the core idea was there. :)
I believe it was Aristotle that taught that the soul (in a non-religious context) is made of three parts:
Appetite, honor, and reason.
One's essence--that is, one's personality and the traits that define him/her, are composed of a mixture of the three, like any color is made of a mixture of R, G and B.
Appetite includes a persons need for gain (i.e. money)
Honor includes a persons need for recognition.
Reason includes a persons need for knowledge. About 80% of people are mostly "appetite." Good examples of "honor" people are soldiers and journalists; good examples of "reason" people are scientists that find interviews and talkshows "an irritating distraction from their work."
Obviously, ZDNet is mostly composed of those of "appetite" to the degree that they cannot even understand a person which cares for things other than personal gain, i.e. money. Sad...
Are they free as in beer, or as in freedom?
Yes, in fact not even a week ago was there a story about a guy that built his own New York cityscape.
From the website:
:-)
"So unique it was awarded U.S. Patent #5137384"
As we all know, ideas must be completely unique in order to have the rare honor of being approved by the extremely stringent U.S. Patent office.