As a dinghy sailor, the concept of changing the sail shape seems rather backwards to me. Generally, you want a rather loose, billowy sail in light to medium winds, because this produces a more rounded airfoil, which produces more lift. In heavy winds, you stretch the sails out flatter, because a more rounded airfoil will overpower you and pull you over. By this logic, the mast should be more erect in heavy winds (pulling the sail flatter) and should be pulled downwards in lighter winds (allowing the sail to fill more).
I knew a guy who was/is involved with the human genome project. At the time (about a year or so ago), the place he was working at was using a cluster of Alpha's for their work with the project. I gathered that at least some of these were running Linux. They may also have been using Digital Unix or another Unix variant on some boxes. I don't know the details of the machines or exactly what they were doing with them.
The registry is an absolutely horrible idea IMHO. Think about it, you have one huge file that stores almost all of your settings. If something should corrupt that file, you are pretty screwed. On the other hand, haveing a bunch of separate config files reduces the chances of this. Sure you may lose a few things, but the chances of everything dying are pretty slim.
"The largest file size Linux supports is 2 GB versus 16 terabytes (TB) for Windows NT 4.0" Does NTFS even support partitions this large, or is this just the theoretical limit of the operating system? I know NT has large file system support, but didn't think it could scale this large.
I was accepted to RPI but didn't go there. One of the specifications of the laptop program is that you are required to run Windows on it. Each student is required to buy or lease a laptop. The system requirements were fairly outrageous for the time: 300 Mhz Pentium II, IIRC (I got the specs in spring of 1999). That was a fairly expensive machine back then. Though the real killer as far as I was concerned was the Window requirement.
Actually, IIRC, you do need to have KDE (or at least its libraries) installed. You just don't have to be running it. As long as the files are there everything should be functional. It would be just more hard drive space wasted to have both KDE and Gnome installed, but it wouldn't affect your ability to run whatever window manager you want. Right now I can run KDE's apps because I have the libraries, though I use straight WindowMaker.
I've had much better luck with it on the G200 with GLX. It runs fairly well, though occassionally lags a little. Also, the textures aren't absolutely perfect, but it's real good for an early beta. See my earlier post.
It actually runs quite well. I have a dual Pentium II 350, and a G200 with GLX running. Unfortunately it seems to run on only one processor at the moment, but still does pretty well, even in the town scene, which is a fairly large landscape. Things get a little jerky in the center of town when I have textures turned on, but around the country side, it performs as well as it did when I ran it on an SGI about a year and a half ago (I'm not sure what that system was, probably an Indigo2 or Indy). Way to go SGI! I can't wait to see later versions with better optimization, and hopefully dual processor support.
The 133mhz fsb is listed on the PIII while the 200 mhz is listed under the K7. I'm not sure whether 133 is correct for the PIII, but the numbers are for separate processors.
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Think of the potential for case mods. A laptop with a huge chrome stack or two. Or a PDA with afterburners.
As a dinghy sailor, the concept of changing the sail shape seems rather backwards to me. Generally, you want a rather loose, billowy sail in light to medium winds, because this produces a more rounded airfoil, which produces more lift. In heavy winds, you stretch the sails out flatter, because a more rounded airfoil will overpower you and pull you over. By this logic, the mast should be more erect in heavy winds (pulling the sail flatter) and should be pulled downwards in lighter winds (allowing the sail to fill more).
I knew a guy who was/is involved with the human genome project. At the time (about a year or so ago), the place he was working at was using a cluster of Alpha's for their work with the project. I gathered that at least some of these were running Linux. They may also have been using Digital Unix or another Unix variant on some boxes. I don't know the details of the machines or exactly what they were doing with them.
The registry is an absolutely horrible idea IMHO. Think about it, you have one huge file that stores almost all of your settings. If something should corrupt that file, you are pretty screwed. On the other hand, haveing a bunch of separate config files reduces the chances of this. Sure you may lose a few things, but the chances of everything dying are pretty slim.
"The largest file size Linux supports is 2 GB versus 16 terabytes (TB) for Windows NT 4.0" Does NTFS even support partitions this large, or is this just the theoretical limit of the operating system? I know NT has large file system support, but didn't think it could scale this large.
RPI is in Troy, NY. What you are thinking of is probably RIT--Rochester Institute of Technology.
I was accepted to RPI but didn't go there. One of the specifications of the laptop program is that you are required to run Windows on it. Each student is required to buy or lease a laptop. The system requirements were fairly outrageous for the time: 300 Mhz Pentium II, IIRC (I got the specs in spring of 1999). That was a fairly expensive machine back then. Though the real killer as far as I was concerned was the Window requirement.
Actually, IIRC, you do need to have KDE (or at least its libraries) installed. You just don't have to be running it. As long as the files are there everything should be functional. It would be just more hard drive space wasted to have both KDE and Gnome installed, but it wouldn't affect your ability to run whatever window manager you want. Right now I can run KDE's apps because I have the libraries, though I use straight WindowMaker.
I've had much better luck with it on the G200 with GLX. It runs fairly well, though occassionally lags a little. Also, the textures aren't absolutely perfect, but it's real good for an early beta. See my earlier post.
It actually runs quite well. I have a dual Pentium II 350, and a G200 with GLX running. Unfortunately it seems to run on only one processor at the moment, but still does pretty well, even in the town scene, which is a fairly large landscape. Things get a little jerky in the center of town when I have textures turned on, but around the country side, it performs as well as it did when I ran it on an SGI about a year and a half ago (I'm not sure what that system was, probably an Indigo2 or Indy). Way to go SGI! I can't wait to see later versions with better optimization, and hopefully dual processor support.
The 133mhz fsb is listed on the PIII while the 200 mhz is listed under the K7. I'm not sure whether 133 is correct for the PIII, but the numbers are for separate processors.