My company has an NT server running it which serves our local office. A null modem cable comes out the back of that machine and attaches to a Netware box running Domino which is connected to our corporate network. An absolutely hideous configuration in so many ways (the null modem cable sure makes for speedy transfers of big emails! NOT!), but we *do* use Netware and Domino, and I imagine *many* others do.
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I could see how this might be a problem for some people. What if your old-ass PC is running something mission-critical? I know that sounds farfetched, but I'm sure there are quite a few ancient PCs out there that are running data collection applications for oil pipeline companies or doing process control on production/assembly lines. If one of these is chosen as the winner, it might be all but impossible to convince the owner to part with it. ($15K worth of new machinery is nothing compared to the amount that might be lost if the old PC were to be taken offline for any amount of time.)
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Maybe you should go live under a rock for a few weeks or something if you don't want to hear anything about star wars. Stopping a few *million* people from talking about it is gonna be a little difficult, you wanker.
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I'm a sysadmin in a CAD shop that uses Pro/E on SGI boxes (though not heavily at *all*, we do most of our 3d solid modeling on RS/6000s in Catia.)
We've recently gotten in a couple of NT boxes with which we plan to run a beta of Catia 5 for Win2K. I, along with the other sysadmin, have assured my boss that this will not work well at all. Pro/E on Linux, on the other hand, certainly sounds interesting. At least one unknown that could cause instability (the OS) would be out of the picture then. (I don't like NT, can you tell?)
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I was informed of this a couple days ago. The "edge.linuxhq.com" (I think?) slashbox will show you what kernels are current (both devel and stable). Pretty useful, and it would be moreso if kernel updates weren't already announced on slashdot all the time...
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The crappy Telesync version (that you're talking about) and the very high-quality screener version. I've seen them both, and the screener really does look nice. Definitely worth the download if you're on a T3 or better.
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I could swear I'd seen benchmarks rating it among the fastest filesystems at the time. (In a thread about FreeBSD's filesystem (UFS?) versus ext2. Search on deja-spews for it) This was a couple of years ago, but I don't know that things have changed very dramatically in the meantime.
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They're still teaching us in school that class A addresses go up to 129.*, class Bs go up to 198 or whatnot, and class Cs begin above that. (This is going by the first three significant bits of the bitwise notation of the IP address.)
Things change too fast.
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Simple solution to the "kernel news" controversy..
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Why not have a little slashbox that shows the latest stable and devel kernel numbers? This would avoid having to make a big announcement every time a minor update is made to the devel kernels, but people who wanted to know what the latest version of the kernel is would still be able to find out, at a glance, without having to log in to some FTP server somewhere. People that don't care could just not select the slashbox in their preferences.
Perhaps major, _important_ kernel updates could (should?) still be announced, though.
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Because nobody uses OS/2.
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Seriously. I haven't met a single person that uses OS/2. I've met more Amiga users.
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I've got 4 drives of varying make and model from IBM, Seagate, and Fujitsu running at 7200 or 10K RPM. The IBM gets about 10 MBytes/s on average. I've seen it hit 13. The others get between 8 and 12 (usually on the low side.) Since Linux's load average is not just a measure of CPU activity, when I'm transferring files between drives on the same SCSI chain, even, the load will hit 1, but the CPU usage will remain at or close to 0.
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I've managed to max out the ethernet card a few times with ftp transfers between my Linux box and my FreeBSD box at home. I would certainly be complaining if I was only getting 900 kbits/second. Heck, I could get more than that over a parallel port.:)
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Maybe NT's stack is just woefully inefficient, but I never experience undue CPU load when doing massive file transfers in Linux. At worst, the load will hit 0.05 or so. I certainly don't *notice* any performance hits, however, even when getting 900K/s on a 10 megabit card.
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If you want to avoid knowing anything at all about this movie, go live under a rock or in a cave for another 2 weeks. That's the only way you'll avoid it. I really hate people that think that everything - including character names!!! - is a spoiler. How did "Darth Maul" spoil *any* of the plotline of the movie for you? I can't understand how it could. Dear God, some people are pathetic. - A.P. --
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15 miles northeast of Minneapolis, gaze in awe and wonder at the fabulous new three-story air-conditioned shoppers' paradise, the East Darth Maul! Filled to the brim with useless crap and the odd knickknack or two, the Darth Maul is a veritable cornucopia of bargains galore! Pick up that new bathing suit you purged all winter to fit into, or that new pair of $90 Nikes to win the love of your despondant 15-year-old daughter! Take the kids and make a day of it; we have a food galleria filled with all the trendy cholesterol-filled grub you know everyone loves! The Darth Maul, exit 15 off I-90, take a left at the homeless man selling oranges!
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100mbit connection.. divided by 5000 users.. = 20000 BITS per second per person.
Not accounting for any overhead at all and assuming 8 bits per byte (much to the dismay of old PDP-8 users I imagine), that's 2.5kbytes/s available, on average, per user.
Anyone getting more than that is incredibly lucky (and is probably slowing the rest of the users down).
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My school has a fractional T3 to BBN in Cambridge. I generally get anywhere from 200 to 600K/second from fast sites. Here's what I get from cdrom.com, at 6 AM in the morning no less:
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'linux-2.2.6.tar.gz' (13588897 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. 13588897 bytes received in 607 secs (22 kbytes/sec)
Good thing there are wcarchive mirrors...
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Regardless of my route to it, wcarchive has always been terribly slow. My brother once compared it to a roomful of people whistling into 300 baud modems. Now that they're allowing 5,000 users, I only expect download speeds to suffer even more.
Hopefully, they'll get a fatter pipe soon too. (It will be very difficult to convince me that what they have now is adequate, based on previous experiences.)
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Slashdot Mirror
./i386/isa/aic6360.c:
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You'll probably have to correct the URL as I can't get the "&" to show up as anything other than "& ", which screws up the link.
Software patents are such BS.
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We've recently gotten in a couple of NT boxes with which we plan to run a beta of Catia 5 for Win2K. I, along with the other sysadmin, have assured my boss that this will not work well at all. Pro/E on Linux, on the other hand, certainly sounds interesting. At least one unknown that could cause instability (the OS) would be out of the picture then. (I don't like NT, can you tell?)
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Things change too fast.
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Perhaps major, _important_ kernel updates could (should?) still be announced, though.
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Dear God, some people are pathetic.
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Second, and more importantly, when Apple releases a Quicktime encoder for Linux, I'll get in line with my 30 bucks.
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I'll leave it up until I get home from Moxy Fruvous; whoever gets it, gets it.
It's 43 megs. Hope you've got a T3.
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divided by 5000 users..
= 20000 BITS per second per person.
Not accounting for any overhead at all and assuming 8 bits per byte (much to the dismay of old PDP-8 users I imagine), that's 2.5kbytes/s available, on average, per user.
Anyone getting more than that is incredibly lucky (and is probably slowing the rest of the users down).
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150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'linux-2.2.6.tar.gz' (13588897 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
13588897 bytes received in 607 secs (22 kbytes/sec)
Good thing there are wcarchive mirrors...
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Hopefully, they'll get a fatter pipe soon too. (It will be very difficult to convince me that what they have now is adequate, based on previous experiences.)
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