It's obvious that if you can, replication of servers is always the right solution. This benchmarks are more a feature than a fail. There are munch more people with a limited budget but a lot of computer power needs, than Mega Hyper Web Sites with zillions of requests a day, and that are the people Linux must serve, that are their "market". An IT with a billon to spend, "shure" don't will ever use Linux. So why worry, let them take fun seeing how clever their are and let's work for the real problems. BTW, this was the feature which i convince my boss to jump to Linux. Three old P133 with their tasks well distributed can save a lot of money in monster machines. In our case we have three linux serving samba to 100 clients, one serving Applications (Office and all that) another sharing home directories for all our workstations and a thirth making daily backups of the other two, and to a Tape. Works perfectly and outperforms a dual P200 NT box we had before (now making more profit of their Hertz as a secondary database Server in Linux, of course). The three Little pentiums have enough CPU to handle Software RAID (cheap!!) over IDE DISKS (cheaper!!). (If there were curious people out there afraid to try this RAID configuration, I must say that works VERY well...)
As you can see, that all was done with throw away machinery for near 0 cost.
It's obvious that if you can, replication of servers is always the right solution. This benchmarks are more a feature than a fail. There are munch more people with a limited budget but a lot of computer power needs, than Mega Hyper Web Sites with zillions of requests a day, and that are the people Linux must serve, that are their "market". IT's with a billon to spend "shure" don't will ever use Linux. So, why worry, let them take fun seeing how clever their are and let's work for the real problems. BTW, this was the feature which i convince my boss to jump to Linux. Three old P133 with their tasks well distributed can save a lot of money in monster machines. In our case we have three linux serving samba to 100 clients, one serving Applications (Office and all that) another sharing home directories for all our workstations and a thirth making daily backups of the other two, and to a Tape. Works perfectly and outperforms a dual P200 NT box we had before (now making more profit of their Hertz as a secondary database Server in Linux, of course). The three Little pentiums have enough CPU to handle Software RAID (cheap!!) over IDE DISKS (cheaper!!). (If there were curious people out there afraid to try this RAID configuration, I must say that works VERY well...)
As you can see, that all was done with throw away machinery for near 0 cost.
Just don't bill for it and the question is closed. As far as I know (my company has also this agreement with the U.S., but not Spain at a whole) the (dis)agreement only talks about "sell" something to IRAQ. I think that's a stupid law too. Governments must do her bussines without trying to blackmail with his citizen's rights. ============================================
Last day, playing with various Synts, mp3 players and the eSound daemon i had an idea that could be very usefull in this area. The fact is that i wanted to "mix" two mp3 streams in two emusic players and i could'nt because i have only one mouse pointer. At this point i thinked that was really cool to have two real potentiometers "linked" to the GTK widgets. That could be extended to vumeters, progress bars, etc.. and all linked in some easy way to "virtual" widgets on the screen. Imagine a "combo-box" linked to a one-line braille reader, or a scrollbar linked to a big potentiometer like the "stereo shuttle" ones. All of this could be placed on a big plate and connected someway to the computer (USB?) and linked to the gtk library (A "real" GTK theme?) and configured by some easy tool... Callme a fool, but i think that's the kind of things that could be usefull for all of us handicapped and less handicapped (Because, who's not handicapped at all???)
Some people seems always flashed by his own light. Let me the take an abstract of this response : "If the software is free, who will pay the software development?".
The software is not free because some evil hacker wants to **** someone. Is free because he thinks that the cost is 0. Well, in money at last...
That means that open source needs open minds, or maybe that open source opens minds too, at last in my case.
And what if it happened? Nobody knows. Maybe without M$ and Apple this world could be better. In fact, most of funniest think i do with computers come from Non-propietary software, simply funded by necessity, not money. The industry could concentrate in make better hardware without software guys hanging on their shoulders (Without M$, I'm shure Intel chips actually could be munch better... ). At last that's the thing that costs money.
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It's obvious that if you can, replication of servers is always the right solution. This benchmarks are more a feature than a fail.
There are munch more people with a limited budget but a lot of computer power needs, than Mega Hyper Web Sites with zillions of requests a day, and that are the people Linux must serve, that are their "market".
An IT with a billon to spend, "shure" don't will ever use Linux. So why worry, let them take fun seeing how clever their are and let's work for the real problems.
BTW, this was the feature which i convince my boss to jump to Linux. Three old P133 with their tasks well distributed can save a lot of money in monster machines. In our case we have three linux serving samba to 100 clients, one serving Applications (Office and all that) another sharing home directories for all our workstations and a thirth making daily backups of the other two, and to a Tape.
Works perfectly and outperforms a dual P200 NT box we had before (now making more profit of their Hertz as a secondary database Server in Linux, of course).
The three Little pentiums have enough CPU to handle Software RAID (cheap!!) over IDE DISKS (cheaper!!). (If there were curious people out there afraid to try this RAID configuration, I must say that works VERY well...)
As you can see, that all was done with throw away machinery for near 0 cost.
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It's obvious that if you can, replication of servers is always the right solution. This benchmarks are more a feature than a fail.
There are munch more people with a limited budget but a lot of computer power needs, than Mega Hyper Web Sites with zillions of requests a day, and that are the people Linux must serve, that are their "market".
IT's with a billon to spend "shure" don't will ever use Linux. So, why worry, let them take fun seeing how clever their are and let's work for the real problems.
BTW, this was the feature which i convince my boss to jump to Linux. Three old P133 with their tasks well distributed can save a lot of money in monster machines. In our case we have three linux serving samba to 100 clients, one serving Applications (Office and all that) another sharing home directories for all our workstations and a thirth making daily backups of the other two, and to a Tape.
Works perfectly and outperforms a dual P200 NT box we had before (now making more profit of their Hertz as a secondary database Server in Linux, of course).
The three Little pentiums have enough CPU to handle Software RAID (cheap!!) over IDE DISKS (cheaper!!). (If there were curious people out there afraid to try this RAID configuration, I must say that works VERY well...)
As you can see, that all was done with throw away machinery for near 0 cost.
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YEah!!..
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Just Put "/* StupidUSLawStupidUSLaw..................
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.....1 Gb od Stupidness.................
StupidUsLawStupidUSLaw */
And then tell him to remove it as soon as received
Jawk!!
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Just don't bill for it and the question is closed. As far as I know (my company has also this agreement with the U.S., but not Spain at a whole) the (dis)agreement only talks about "sell" something to IRAQ.
I think that's a stupid law too. Governments must do her bussines without trying to blackmail with his citizen's rights.
============================================
Last day, playing with various Synts, mp3 players and the eSound daemon i had an idea that could be very usefull in this area.
The fact is that i wanted to "mix" two mp3 streams in two emusic players and i could'nt because i have only one mouse pointer. At this point i thinked that was really cool to have two real potentiometers "linked" to the GTK widgets.
That could be extended to vumeters, progress bars, etc.. and all linked in some easy way to "virtual" widgets on the screen.
Imagine a "combo-box" linked to a one-line braille reader, or a scrollbar linked to a big potentiometer like the "stereo shuttle" ones. All
of this could be placed on a big plate and connected someway to the computer (USB?) and linked to the gtk library (A "real" GTK theme?) and configured by some easy tool...
Callme a fool, but i think that's the kind of things that could be usefull for all of us handicapped and less handicapped (Because, who's not handicapped at all???)
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Some people seems always flashed by his own light.
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Let me the take an abstract of this response :
"If the software is free, who will pay the software development?".
The software is not free because some evil hacker wants to **** someone. Is free because he thinks that the cost is 0. Well, in money at last...
That means that open source needs open minds, or maybe that open source opens minds too, at last in my case.
===============================================
And what if it happened? Nobody knows. Maybe without M$ and Apple this world could be better. In fact, most of funniest think i do with computers come from Non-propietary software, simply funded by necessity, not money.
The industry could concentrate in make better hardware without software guys hanging on their shoulders (Without M$, I'm shure Intel chips actually could be munch better... ). At last that's the thing that costs money.