Now we're coming to multiple CDs. Soon we'll be receiving programs on DVD technology.
SuSE linux already comes on DVD. Incredibly useful for installing; you can do that full, multi-gigabyte install while you're out seeing a movie.
Unless this talk of bit-flipping is not a result of how our disk drives work . . . can anyone clarify?
What's happened here is that we've got the drives spinning so fast, it gets hot enough, and is dense enough for the magnetic "bits" to change polarity and thus, value. We can get it more dense, but the reliability of such a system is nil.
So it looks like we may be moving back to the 5 1/4" form factor drive, at least temporarily.
/. did a story a while back on the GSCube (I'm lazy right now, maybe a k-whore could give a link), and a lot of the issues you posted were solved in the cube. First off, the memory problem is a non-issue. Among other things, they've beefed up the memory capabilities of the GSCube for being a renderer. Second, that weird architecture and design of the PS2 makes it perfect for rendering. Instead of a general purpose processor used as a render system, the PS2 CPU is designed to push polygons, making it much easier to render.
Plus, most studios are in California, and we've got power issues for a little while. If you've got one box that can do the work of a couple PCs, you're saving power and money
Probably the same way you do it on a huge database like oracle. Have different disks/clusters for EVERYTHING. one disk for the actual databases, another for the logs, another for the transaction lists for performing rollbacks, etc, etc. On top of that, perform reliable backups constantly, and span it over many different computers. The trick is to set it up so that a failure is as insignificant as possible. RAID is far from reliable enough once you add a couple more zeroes to your value
It should be interesting to see what the lawyers plan to [try to] do with the usenet group:
alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die
Probably the same thing everybody's favorite pseudo-religion tried to do, send out a cancel group request based on pretty much baseless allegations of copyright infringement. Once that fails, however, they'll probably have their corporate attack lawyers to sue anyone who reposts these obvious pieces of parody and satire.
I'll give five bucks for the head of any of the lyon's group's attack lawyers.
These ant-barney the dinosaur sites have been around for a long time, at least five years if not a day. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to act within a reasonable amount of time if you defend your trademark? Also, why are they doing it now? The show's not exactly been at the top of the children's ratings for several years now, being replaced by much better programming.
Perhaps I'm being overly cynical, but it sounds to me like the company here just wants back into the spotlight
Repeat after me: Moore's law does not deal with processor speed. It deals with the amount of transistors on an IC. This is a pre transistor machine, thus Moore's law does not apply to this wonderful computing machine.
Quite all right. Sometimes I wish there was a remote control for life where I could pause life so I could get a few extra hours sleep, or rewind an especially dreadful monday so I could fix those faux pas I've made.
Are these people going to be turning their bulleye's onto slashdot in forging emails of rob malda or spamming the/. community with porn ads to the point that moderation is pointless?
To some extent they already do. Hang around the dregs of slashdot long enough and you'll find postings from the -1 crowd with links to forged photos of Malda, etc, engaged in all sorts of lewd acts. And as for the aforementioned crapflood attack, there are mechanics in place for dealing with those idiots. All of the methods put in place, from setting them to a -1 defauld posting level to temporary IP banning if they're a habitual troller, to the lameness filter, are designed to keep the idiots from ruining any hope of rational discussion. This site is also constantly under attack; there have been at least two massive cases of people register flooding - using a script to automatically submit thousands of requests for accounts in the hopes of bogging and/or crashing the site.
Is it just a matter of time before slashdot, being the public forum that it is, becoms the target of the psychotic individuals currently targeting cotse?
Unfortunately, the idiots have already begun attacking. The psychotologists forced the removal of one of their "sacred documents" from this site. Of course, it didn't do much good, if you read a ways down in the comments. People seem to hate free speech if they're the one being attacked.
Yep, still do. In fact, now you don't have to choose between the DVD and the CD-Rom distros, they're both packaged together, at least in the Professional version of the distro.
It would be perfect for embedded apps once you put the thing in a $5 plastic box from radio crack. It's incredibly simple to harden an SBC. Just put it in the case and run cables.
Though, perhaps this is the nefarious side of my brain speaking, this seems like it would be the perfect packet sniffer for a large network. Would you notice a three inch cube hidden in a server rack? Probably not unless you go looking for it.
Intel's working on a Linux compiler with all of the P4 goodness. Although it's in beta right now, you can bet your sweet butt your going to pay for it once the program gets out of beta. Intel may have good compilers, but they don't give 'em away
Linus isn't saying that we should go the way of Windows and have a 1024x768x24bit bootup splash screen with OpenGL penguins frolicking in the background. All he's saying is that he thinks that the module loading messages should be shortened to such things as: Loading FooDriver.
The more I think about it, the more I feel this is a win here; we get a bootlog that's easily eyeball parsed without all the cruft of a driver maker sending out mad props to all the sponsors.
Though what I'd really be interested in seeing one of the big vendors at least experimenting with the DevFS system. It looks like it could clear up confusion and make things drivers/programs easier to write.
This is a big decision that's guaranteed to flare up emotions (just look at the posts so far). So, they halted trading so that people could run through the emotions and eliminate any "irrational exhuberance" before deciding what to do with their stocks.
Finally, a site that searches through and gives you just pictures. 'Scuze me while I go do some a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=porn">"
heavy research"
IBM licenses their processor tech to other companies. Already both AMD and Intel are using IBM's copper interconnect technology, so I doubt that they'll sit on the transistor technology. It's more profittable to own a patent and license the work out to others than to do the silicon work yourself, hence companies like Rambus
Thats just insane. What is holding back processors these days? Are they slowing them down so we buy more on the stepups?
Everything else is holding these bad boys back. Inside the friendly confines of the CPU, the chips are speeding around at a GHz, but communications with the memory are in the hundreds of megahertz, and in a PC, the bus is pegged at 66MHz.
What is the max of the P4 and Athlon 4s?
IIRC, they're hoping these processors will get up to 5 GHz
Will mhz always be the speed meeter? What about ops per second and such? We can engineering and breakthroughs rate a processor rather then mhz's.
MHz are sexy. They make it an easy sell and a good jumping off point. Things like ops/sec, etc can get tricky because certain ops take longer than others.
Who got started the mhz war? wan't the AMD 386 DX 40 the first mhz machine that sparced it all off? After all with wintel a 386sx16 with 4 megs of ram was the shiznat. Then we came up with DX2, DX4 and whatever else
To some extent it was Intel/AMD, to some it was Joe SixChip's lust for speed, to some it was code bloat. Personally, I feel it's time to stop worrying about processor speed for a little while and start worrying about memory speed. That's been an ever-increasing bottleneck, and our processors are starving for bits.
Why? Because it's there. People are going to want to run software for their shiny new expensive processors in 64-bit mode, and since other companies will not provide the service for a while, you've got to run something. Besides, there were Linux distros that ran on IA-64 processors a full year before their release. It gives people a chance to clean up their code and make it 64-bit clean (there are some differences) before the release of the processor.
There was an interesting discussion on this site about a year ago discussing the efforts to clone and preserve this species. Who knows how effective these efforts will be, after all, the DNA from 1 species of animal won't be able to save a species
Ever hear of a hydrogen bomb? This experiment is basically a hydrogen bomb but shrunk down to a more controllable size. Yeah it can screw things up, but we've already got treaties controlling these things.
Yes and no. Basically, what you're doing is hacking your TiVO into becoming a dedicated MPEG-2 processor. You allow the TiVO to do all the realtime ripping while you go about doing whatever, and pulling it off when you get a round tuit. Now, the big question is will one be able to do the opposite, copy your MPEGs onto your TiVO.
First off, I am planning on living forever, or I'm going to die trying (rimshot).
But second off, I think that an immorality device would be much more useful. You know, something that would allow me to perform any act without persons looking upon my actions as being evil, perverse, and detrimental to my image. Are there any such devices on the market today?
We're mostly in agreement here. Perhaps I wasn't clear here, but I said that there is no justification for criminal charges here, only revocation of use of a server. The administrators do have the right to set boundaries as to how the servers can be used, just like the National Park Service can set boundaries as to what you can and can't do in a national park.
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SuSE linux already comes on DVD. Incredibly useful for installing; you can do that full, multi-gigabyte install while you're out seeing a movie.
What's happened here is that we've got the drives spinning so fast, it gets hot enough, and is dense enough for the magnetic "bits" to change polarity and thus, value. We can get it more dense, but the reliability of such a system is nil.
So it looks like we may be moving back to the 5 1/4" form factor drive, at least temporarily.
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Plus, most studios are in California, and we've got power issues for a little while. If you've got one box that can do the work of a couple PCs, you're saving power and money
D - M - C - A
[Distant sound of nuclear explosion. Mushroom cloud appears] Ooops. Fetch me an eraser; that town wasn't important anyways.
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I'll give five bucks for the head of any of the lyon's group's attack lawyers.
D - M - C - A
Perhaps I'm being overly cynical, but it sounds to me like the company here just wants back into the spotlight
D - M - C - A
Repeat after me: Moore's law does not deal with processor speed. It deals with the amount of transistors on an IC. This is a pre transistor machine, thus Moore's law does not apply to this wonderful computing machine.
But since I live in California and am under the ruling of Gray Davis, a beowulf of these electromechanical beasts would cause a rolling blackout.
Quite all right. Sometimes I wish there was a remote control for life where I could pause life so I could get a few extra hours sleep, or rewind an especially dreadful monday so I could fix those faux pas I've made.
To some extent they already do. Hang around the dregs of slashdot long enough and you'll find postings from the -1 crowd with links to forged photos of Malda, etc, engaged in all sorts of lewd acts. And as for the aforementioned crapflood attack, there are mechanics in place for dealing with those idiots. All of the methods put in place, from setting them to a -1 defauld posting level to temporary IP banning if they're a habitual troller, to the lameness filter, are designed to keep the idiots from ruining any hope of rational discussion. This site is also constantly under attack; there have been at least two massive cases of people register flooding - using a script to automatically submit thousands of requests for accounts in the hopes of bogging and/or crashing the site.
God I hate those idjits.
Unfortunately, the idiots have already begun attacking. The psychotologists forced the removal of one of their "sacred documents" from this site. Of course, it didn't do much good, if you read a ways down in the comments. People seem to hate free speech if they're the one being attacked.
Yep, still do. In fact, now you don't have to choose between the DVD and the CD-Rom distros, they're both packaged together, at least in the Professional version of the distro.
Though, perhaps this is the nefarious side of my brain speaking, this seems like it would be the perfect packet sniffer for a large network. Would you notice a three inch cube hidden in a server rack? Probably not unless you go looking for it.
Intel's working on a Linux compiler with all of the P4 goodness. Although it's in beta right now, you can bet your sweet butt your going to pay for it once the program gets out of beta. Intel may have good compilers, but they don't give 'em away
The more I think about it, the more I feel this is a win here; we get a bootlog that's easily eyeball parsed without all the cruft of a driver maker sending out mad props to all the sponsors.
Though what I'd really be interested in seeing one of the big vendors at least experimenting with the DevFS system. It looks like it could clear up confusion and make things drivers/programs easier to write.
This is a big decision that's guaranteed to flare up emotions (just look at the posts so far). So, they halted trading so that people could run through the emotions and eliminate any "irrational exhuberance" before deciding what to do with their stocks.
Finally, a site that searches through and gives you just pictures. 'Scuze me while I go do some a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=porn">" heavy research"
IBM licenses their processor tech to other companies. Already both AMD and Intel are using IBM's copper interconnect technology, so I doubt that they'll sit on the transistor technology. It's more profittable to own a patent and license the work out to others than to do the silicon work yourself, hence companies like Rambus
Everything else is holding these bad boys back. Inside the friendly confines of the CPU, the chips are speeding around at a GHz, but communications with the memory are in the hundreds of megahertz, and in a PC, the bus is pegged at 66MHz.
IIRC, they're hoping these processors will get up to 5 GHz
MHz are sexy. They make it an easy sell and a good jumping off point. Things like ops/sec, etc can get tricky because certain ops take longer than others.
To some extent it was Intel/AMD, to some it was Joe SixChip's lust for speed, to some it was code bloat. Personally, I feel it's time to stop worrying about processor speed for a little while and start worrying about memory speed. That's been an ever-increasing bottleneck, and our processors are starving for bits.
Why? Because it's there. People are going to want to run software for their shiny new expensive processors in 64-bit mode, and since other companies will not provide the service for a while, you've got to run something. Besides, there were Linux distros that ran on IA-64 processors a full year before their release. It gives people a chance to clean up their code and make it 64-bit clean (there are some differences) before the release of the processor.
There was an interesting discussion on this site about a year ago discussing the efforts to clone and preserve this species. Who knows how effective these efforts will be, after all, the DNA from 1 species of animal won't be able to save a species
Ever hear of a hydrogen bomb? This experiment is basically a hydrogen bomb but shrunk down to a more controllable size. Yeah it can screw things up, but we've already got treaties controlling these things.
It's not pointless and stupid if you want to use this new hack. It doesn't work with the 2.0 version of the software.
Yes and no. Basically, what you're doing is hacking your TiVO into becoming a dedicated MPEG-2 processor. You allow the TiVO to do all the realtime ripping while you go about doing whatever, and pulling it off when you get a round tuit. Now, the big question is will one be able to do the opposite, copy your MPEGs onto your TiVO.
But second off, I think that an immorality device would be much more useful. You know, something that would allow me to perform any act without persons looking upon my actions as being evil, perverse, and detrimental to my image. Are there any such devices on the market today?
We're mostly in agreement here. Perhaps I wasn't clear here, but I said that there is no justification for criminal charges here, only revocation of use of a server. The administrators do have the right to set boundaries as to how the servers can be used, just like the National Park Service can set boundaries as to what you can and can't do in a national park.