And funny it was held in the uk, where the nuclear program has finally been scrapped as the government has admitted that it is bankrupt with huge liabilities. Not technically scrapped as they will run a few plants for a bit, but none will ever be built again, and the entire uk nuclear indusrty is going to be turned into a cleanup operation. Which given their historical record will still be a disaster. Parts of Sellafield could still go critical because of the amount of nuclear material that has never been cleaned up properly.
they probably wrote this a long time ago. Writing custom compilers for one architecture is easier than writing generic backends that gcc needs. And IBM has always had a lot of people working on compilers (like Backus, who did Fortran). Perhaps they will be persuaded to contribute to gcc too.
the people who run De Beers never enter the USA because they will be arrested for running an illegal cartel. Europe has a few De Beers shops now (not sure why we think they are legal). I think it was a judgement 10 or 20 years ago that the diamond cartel was illegal, dont remember the exact details, but it comes up quite often, becasue it is difficult to run a large multinational without ever going to the USA
I didnt know anyone was broadcasting hdtv on DVB. What resolutions are being broadcast? Will any old DVB card work with hd (as it is just a larger mpeg stream - presumably you just get fewer channels in the slot).
I certainly have not come across any hd dvb in Europe. Would have thought the bbc might have trialled it.
Just because there are not multiple routes doesnt mean the overall bandwidth is not higher, becasue as you have multiple nics, you can send to multiple hosts at the same time, so the total bandwidth is higher. Obviously it does depend on your communication pattern how much you can benefit from this.
(they have 64 machines, not 128, so I have done the numbers with this).
you can increase performance. rather than 1 Gb port into a very expensive 64 port switch, to give you a maximum of 128Gb bandwidth (bidirectional 64x1Gb), you can (if you use the calculator) stick 4 Gb ports in each machine, buy 11 cheapo Dell 24 port gigabit switches (about $3k each), have 1 switch latency, and have 4 times the total non blocking bandwidth available. And the switches will still cost you less than 1 64 port gig switch. Not a *huge* amount less though.
Of course they used 100Mb switches which are virtually free, which with 4 NICs gives you more bandwidth than a tree of gig switches but less than the very expensive 64 port solution.
it will be for a specific version. Thats partly why it is a pain to get as by the time you do the shipped version might be obsolete. Preumably IBM and Suse will sell this specific version labelled as such, with an installer that only installs the right parts.
Its a nice little device, but I want something like this for $10 or so. Its about $140, and I can buy a real computer for that much (eg VIA Eden). So ok it uses less power and is smaller, but it is not that compelling at that price.
And its not SPEC. Apple havent submitted results to SPEC, and cant use the trademark. They are going to be very annoyed. Thats what official results are for, controlled comparisons.
thats the nice thing about the Ericsson P800 it runs Opera and can do real html. frames still suck though, just because of the screen size so you have to scroll. i am posting this from it...
I dont know where you come from or what what wine you drink, but large numbers of wines are only made from one grape variety. SOme wine varieties are almost never blended (eg Sauvignon blanc, Riesling, often Pinot noir). But this in no way means they taste the same. A lot of the taste depends on how you grow the grape and produce the wine.
It is so much easier to do this with vlans no four port ethers or cross over cables or little hubs just one switch and a machine with one interface (router on a stick).
i just got one and there are some quite good features. the best are Opera which can make pretty much any web page readable, next there is putty for ssh, and also there is a dev kit and no problem running your apps. battery life is not so good if you have the backlight on a lot.
but posting to slashdot while sitting on the toilet or googling from the bus (over GPRS) are good features...
And if someone calls you and their number is not in the address book there is *no way* to put it in other than writing it on a bit of paper and reentering it.
and reading the press release forwarded to lkml I see that they have admitted using functions from Linux, and are prepared to give copies of the source to the authors. But they have ignored the derived works / linking parts og the license. This admission is rather bad for them, as they have admitted using copyright material in their product without permission, as if the GPL gives them this permission if they send developers copies of their own code on floppies...
It reads:
For the avoidance of doubt, the hardware abstraction layer (roughly analogous to a PC's BIOS) has it's PCI allocation and bridge setup based in part on the following functions from the Linux kernel sources:
thats not true: firewire is much slower than SATA. It is rated at 400Mbit, but may actually achieve about a third of that. SATA is 1.5Gbit in the first release, and you will probably get that (it isnt a shared bus hence the firewire overhead).
Though this doesnt seem to be the case withe the foveon, which seems to have an exposure time/sensitivity problem and cant do fast shots. Seems to be a major disadvantage, which m ay be why it has not been widely accepted.
> Oh, and DTV does not use any less bandwidth than > analog - it's still spec'd at a 6 MHz band, > because it requires that much for 1080i HDTV
I really dont belive that. Basically you can multiplex six or so lowdef channels in the space of i HDTV channel. This will happen. The great thing with digital (from the broadcasters point of view) is you can just turn up the compression and sell more channels at no additional cost. Thats why nowhere in the world except th US is bothering about HDTV.
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funny the intro was written in 1953.
And funny it was held in the uk, where the nuclear program has finally been scrapped as the government has admitted that it is bankrupt with huge liabilities. Not technically scrapped as they will run a few plants for a bit, but none will ever be built again, and the entire uk nuclear indusrty is going to be turned into a cleanup operation. Which given their historical record will still be a disaster. Parts of Sellafield could still go critical because of the amount of nuclear material that has never been cleaned up properly.
if the lan stops working you need a larger power supply. The ones in the morex cases are dodgy, espicially if you use a full size hard drive.
they probably wrote this a long time ago. Writing custom compilers for one architecture is easier than writing generic backends that gcc needs. And IBM has always had a lot of people working on compilers (like Backus, who did Fortran). Perhaps they will be persuaded to contribute to gcc too.
the people who run De Beers never enter the USA because they will be arrested for running an illegal cartel. Europe has a few De Beers shops now (not sure why we think they are legal). I think it was a judgement 10 or 20 years ago that the diamond cartel was illegal, dont remember the exact details, but it comes up quite often, becasue it is difficult to run a large multinational without ever going to the USA
Well I thought I would get on, so I bought some Opterons. Cant get hold of any actual motherboards though.
Lots of pins to admire though.
Allegedly they might ship this week. It reminds me of when the athlon came out, there was little choice and availability of motherboards for ages.
I didnt know anyone was broadcasting hdtv on DVB. What resolutions are being broadcast? Will any old DVB card work with hd (as it is just a larger mpeg stream - presumably you just get fewer channels in the slot).
I certainly have not come across any hd dvb in Europe. Would have thought the bbc might have trialled it.
Just because there are not multiple routes doesnt mean the overall bandwidth is not higher, becasue as you have multiple nics, you can send to multiple hosts at the same time, so the total bandwidth is higher. Obviously it does depend on your communication pattern how much you can benefit from this.
(they have 64 machines, not 128, so I have done the numbers with this).
you can increase performance. rather than 1 Gb port into a very expensive 64 port switch, to give you a maximum of 128Gb bandwidth (bidirectional 64x1Gb), you can (if you use the calculator) stick 4 Gb ports in each machine, buy 11 cheapo Dell 24 port gigabit switches (about $3k each), have 1 switch latency, and have 4 times the total non blocking bandwidth available. And the switches will still cost you less than 1 64 port gig switch. Not a *huge* amount less though.
Of course they used 100Mb switches which are virtually free, which with 4 NICs gives you more bandwidth than a tree of gig switches but less than the very expensive 64 port solution.
it will be for a specific version. Thats partly why it is a pain to get as by the time you do the shipped version might be obsolete. Preumably IBM and Suse will sell this specific version labelled as such, with an installer that only installs the right parts.
Its a nice little device, but I want something like this for $10 or so. Its about $140, and I can buy a real computer for that much (eg VIA Eden). So ok it uses less power and is smaller, but it is not that compelling at that price.
And its not SPEC. Apple havent submitted results to SPEC, and cant use the trademark. They are going to be very annoyed. Thats what official results are for, controlled comparisons.
thats the nice thing about the Ericsson P800 it runs Opera and can do real html. frames still suck though, just because of the screen size so you have to scroll. i am posting this from it...
I dont know where you come from or what what wine you drink, but large numbers of wines are only made from one grape variety. SOme wine varieties are almost never blended (eg Sauvignon blanc, Riesling, often Pinot noir). But this in no way means they taste the same. A lot of the taste depends on how you grow the grape and produce the wine.
It is so much easier to do this with vlans no four port ethers or cross over cables or little hubs just one switch and a machine with one interface (router on a stick).
I like the fact it is called the Progess Bar.
Right up there with the excellent band My Computer.
Its down in my old haunt of Tufnell Park, will suggest it for the next Lonix meeting (a change from hacking the wifi at Wagamama anyway).
i just got one and there are some quite good features. the best are Opera which can make pretty much any web page readable, next there is putty for ssh, and also there is a dev kit and no problem running your apps. battery life is not so good if you have the backlight on a lot.
but posting to slashdot while sitting on the toilet or googling from the bus (over GPRS) are good features...
And if someone calls you and their number is not in the address book there is *no way* to put it in other than writing it on a bit of paper and reentering it.
its shite
And that they used a really old 860 based Xeon with 2GHz Xeonsm rather than an E7505.
and reading the press release forwarded to lkml I see that they have admitted using functions from Linux, and are prepared to give copies of the source to the authors. But they have ignored the derived works / linking parts og the license. This admission is rather bad for them, as they have admitted using copyright material in their product without permission, as if the GPL gives them this permission if they send developers copies of their own code on floppies...
It reads:
For the avoidance of doubt, the hardware abstraction layer (roughly
analogous to a PC's BIOS) has it's PCI allocation and bridge setup
based in part on the following functions from the Linux kernel sources:
pci_alloc_primary_bus
pbus_size_bridges
pbus_assign_resources_sorted
pci_setup_bridge
pci_bridge_check_ranges
pbus_size_mem
pbus_assign_resources
pci_assign_unassigned_resources
pci_scan_bus
pcibios_update_resource
pci_read_bases
pci_alloc_bus
pci_add_new_bus
pci_do_scan_bus
pci_scan_bridge
pci_setup_device
pci_scan_device
pci_scan_slot
pcibios_fixup_bus
pci_calc_resource_flags
pci_size
pdev_fixup_device_resources
pbus_assign_bus_resources
pci_do_scan_bus
pcibios_fixup_pbus_ranges
pci_assign_resource
pdev_sort_resources
pdev_enable_device
pbus_size_io
Any company or individual wishing to receive a copy of the source code
to this component should apply in writing to:
(blah)
this case would be in the UK, where click through licenses are not valid anyway, so the difference with the Microsoft EULA is not important.
.gb is registered. There are some old uk military sites on it, or were. Which is even odder.
thats not true: firewire is much slower than SATA. It is rated at 400Mbit, but may actually achieve about a third of that. SATA is 1.5Gbit in the first release, and you will probably get that (it isnt a shared bus hence the firewire overhead).
I dont think so, I think they are a little slow. Most are 60fps only.
However you can get 60 inch 1360x768 screens, which is approaching you ideal. And very nice they are too, with DVI input (NEC make them).
Though this doesnt seem to be the case withe the foveon, which seems to have an exposure time/sensitivity problem and cant do fast shots. Seems to be a major disadvantage, which m ay be why it has not been widely accepted.
> Oh, and DTV does not use any less bandwidth than
> analog - it's still spec'd at a 6 MHz band,
> because it requires that much for 1080i HDTV
I really dont belive that. Basically you can multiplex six or so lowdef channels in the space of i HDTV channel. This will happen. The great thing with digital (from the broadcasters point of view) is you can just turn up the compression and sell more channels at no additional cost. Thats why nowhere in the world except th US is bothering about HDTV.