The German Maglev project has actually started in the early 70s. I don't know exactly when the first test tracks were built, but I think it's even more than a decade ago.
It's a pity that Germany wasn't able to build a Maglev track in its own country. It was mainly for political and financial reasons. But even if a first Maglev project wouldn't be profitable it had given the technology a big push much earlier.
I'm from Germany and have used both the TGV and the ICE and I must admit that the ICE sucks in comparison. The main problem is that the ICE in Germany practically never can go with its maximum speed because because of too many and too strong turns and slopes.
On the other hand the TGV from Bordeaux to Paris goes almost straight with 300 km/h taking about two hours. And that was even 10 years before the ICE.
Another thing are the TGV toilets which look like on an airplane. Did you ever have a dump while travelling with 300 km/h? That's progress;)
You will NEVER get the maximum theoretical throughput of your hard disk on filesystem operations. Not even close. Try copying your 40GB to another disk and measure your real world fs throughput. It will be much closer to 10MB than 40MB.
XFS is about 650K bzip2-compressed. The kernel tarball is about 28M bzip2-compressed. So XFS increases the kernel by about 2.3%. It is a lot of code especially compared to other filesystems, but nowhere near 5-10% of the kernel.
What are you talking about? Number portability has been available for about a year. Maybe not in your part of the world. But I have switched providers this summer and kept my number without problems.
It's already lousy HTML if you use the font tag at all. I haven't used it for ages, that's what CSS is for. And styling fonts with CSS is something even Netscape 4 supports.
It's a pity that there are only a few who know the difference between Transitional and Strict HTML. Ever tried to do a HTML Strict website? It's quite different and you gonna learn a lot.
Unfourtunately, not even the next version (7.4) is going to support Windows natively. Maybe Windows support is coming with 7.4.1, maybe we have to wait until 7.5.
You can do that with Linux, too. Preferrably with the HTB packet scheduler (Hierarchical Token Buckets or so). Just enable it in your kernel under "Qos and/or fair scheduling". Then you might want to read some HOWTOs, because it's not really intuitive.
Works like a charm here with our ADSL connection. SSH is perfectly useable even while you're downloading at full speed.
I'm happy to report that tomorrow we're scheduled to receive our 32 node HPC Linux cluster from IBM (and we actually got it through official channels).
Just out of curiosity: What are the unofficial channels to get such a cluster from in a 100K+ employees company?
Recently I backed up about 40GB of data on 9 DVDs. It took about 2.5 hours with a 4x burner. It's definitely an improvement over backing up on 60 CDs, which would have taken maybe 8 hours or even more. Especially if you have to backup files bigger than 700MB.
I can't tell you how many Zip disks we sent out that were unreturned, in spite of the fact that everyone we send them to knows about the high media cost.
From Dave Jones' write-up (link in the post above)
CD Recording. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Jens Axboe added the ability to use DMA for writing CDs on ATAPI devices. Writing CDs should be much faster than it was in 2.4, and also less prone to buffer underruns and the like. - Updated cdrecord in rpm and tar.gz can be found at *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/tools/
- With the above tools, you also no longer need ide-scsi in order to use an IDE CD writer. - Ripping audio tracks off of CDs now also uses DMA and should be notably faster. You can also find an updated cdda2wav at the same location. - Send good/bad reports of audio extraction with cdda2wav and burning with the modified cdrecord to Jens Axboe - Currently only 'open by device name' works in cdrecord. cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdX -inq - More info at http://lwn.net/Articles/13538/ & http://lwn.net/Articles/13160/
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I've heard of this, too. But I don't think it really helps. AFAIK the ICE never goes faster than 250 km/h in South Germany.
The German Maglev project has actually started in the early 70s. I don't know exactly when the first test tracks were built, but I think it's even more than a decade ago.
It's a pity that Germany wasn't able to build a Maglev track in its own country. It was mainly for political and financial reasons. But even if a first Maglev project wouldn't be profitable it had given the technology a big push much earlier.
I'm from Germany and have used both the TGV and the ICE and I must admit that the ICE sucks in comparison. The main problem is that the ICE in Germany practically never can go with its maximum speed because because of too many and too strong turns and slopes.
;)
On the other hand the TGV from Bordeaux to Paris goes almost straight with 300 km/h taking about two hours. And that was even 10 years before the ICE.
Another thing are the TGV toilets which look like on an airplane. Did you ever have a dump while travelling with 300 km/h? That's progress
If you use dd you bypass the filesystem. Try cp.
You will NEVER get the maximum theoretical throughput of your hard disk on filesystem operations. Not even close. Try copying your 40GB to another disk and measure your real world fs throughput. It will be much closer to 10MB than 40MB.
Good advise.
That's how I stopped smoking two years ago.
XFS is about 650K bzip2-compressed. The kernel tarball is about 28M bzip2-compressed. So XFS increases the kernel by about 2.3%. It is a lot of code especially compared to other filesystems, but nowhere near 5-10% of the kernel.
XFS has been in 2.6 for a long time. It was merged early during the 2.5 development cycle.
What are you talking about? Number portability has been available for about a year. Maybe not in your part of the world. But I have switched providers this summer and kept my number without problems.
Can you provide any sources for that claim?
It's already lousy HTML if you use the font tag at all. I haven't used it for ages, that's what CSS is for. And styling fonts with CSS is something even Netscape 4 supports.
It's a pity that there are only a few who know the difference between Transitional and Strict HTML. Ever tried to do a HTML Strict website? It's quite different and you gonna learn a lot.
Ummmmm, everyone?
Unfourtunately, not even the next version (7.4) is going to support Windows natively. Maybe Windows support is coming with 7.4.1, maybe we have to wait until 7.5.
You can do that with Linux, too. Preferrably with the HTB packet scheduler (Hierarchical Token Buckets or so). Just enable it in your kernel under "Qos and/or fair scheduling". Then you might want to read some HOWTOs, because it's not really intuitive.
Works like a charm here with our ADSL connection. SSH is perfectly useable even while you're downloading at full speed.
Just out of curiosity: What are the unofficial channels to get such a cluster from in a 100K+ employees company?
Recently I backed up about 40GB of data on 9 DVDs. It took about 2.5 hours with a 4x burner. It's definitely an improvement over backing up on 60 CDs, which would have taken maybe 8 hours or even more. Especially if you have to backup files bigger than 700MB.
I think it was just because of the fact.
Who still listens to music with cymbal crashes?
No, seriously, MP3 quality really depends on the music genre. Metal/Rock sounds usually worse. Especially stuff like cymbals.
PHP starts to get interesting... When they release PHP 7 I might switch from Perl to PHP.
What about text-decoration: blink?
Why?
Microsoft has always had enough of cash to just buy whole companies to get the technology.
Don't forget that x86-64 also provides 16 general purpose registers compared to the 8 of ia32.
I don't know a single serious designer who hasn't switched from Macs to PCs some years ago. It's just that Windows is more stable these days.
I wouldn't call Frameset an own standard. And Strict is a subset of Transitional. So there's no reason to be insulting.