they sold out wholesale. consumers can still buy em..its not sold out retail yet and probably wont for a while. get em while they last. im still waiting for SMP tho. 1GHz dual K7's would really rock.
but why ? its not like theres a computer shortage or anything. Q1 2K was supposed to have slightly higher demand but not this much. and the growth from 99 -> 2K has been following the usual trends..no biggie increase.
dude, you have no sense of humor (and neither does that kaufmann guy). you might want to actually look at the damn link before spouting off. BTW, the UNIX haters handbook was written by people who contributed significantly to UNIX itself..heres a clue - dennis ritchie contributed to the book as did programmers who worked on the solaris NeWs system, NeXT and others. and moderators - that applies to you too. man...i dont believe i got moderated down for posting a link to the handbook.
The beauty of UNIX is doing things RIGHT. the first time. simple commands building on each other to produce a complicated system is the *right* way to go. two letters for each command speeds up the learning process, piping seamlessly allows interaction between commands, C allows a higher abstration than assembly (and faster prototyping - heck, only java has come somewhere close to C...no other language can touch it even after 30 years..C++ doesnt count - its a bad idea) and decent performance, seamless multithreading (especially & for background jobs), remote display of graphics, etc etc. The more things change - the more they stay the same.
*do NOT* buy a BP6 for a server. the BP6 has more problems than any other motherboard out there. ABIT SUCKS...even though there have been good reviews..this board is bad bad bad. want proof ? here's some lock ups filesystem corruption
i've got 4 abit's and those are the last abit's im going to buy..all non overclocked with clean PSU's, 500Mhz celerons and APM off/ACPI off/noapic options and i get lockups with ALL OF THEM.
specially since they traced the logs on the routers..as the "security expert" who got trolled by 2600 pointed out, the QoS logs on the routers dont lie.
which doesnt mean anything. you still have to shell out $$$ to buy a HDTV convertor box or even more $$$!!! to buy a HDTV set. of course, since theres nothing worth watching on TV anyway...
universities are a hell of a lot more than 'reading the right book'. the feedback you get from a class full of your peers, some of who may be smarter than you, plus the feedback from professors is a *lot* more than you can get in the "real world" where someone with your skillset or better may be miles away from you. universities tend to concentrate the best of the best and put them within talking distance of each other.
umm..what good is changing your mac address ? they can still track you thru your dynamically assigned ip address (address assigned to your machine by their DHCP server). and anyway, most OSes allow you to change your MAC address..no biggie. try this in linux : ifconfig eth1 hw ether deadbeef0001 (this needs do be done while the card is down for obvious reasons) now your card will answer all arp requests with DE:AD:BE:EF:00:01.
from someone running tcpdump at your ISP ? its evident that https and ssh sessions to machines dont/wont get sniffed by this system...as more and more web servers support https (specially with the impending expiry of RSA's patents) this sort of scheme will collapse completely. if you arent running ssh at least now...i sugggest you do so. i've seen packet sniffers running on most isps...whether the isp was aware of it or not is a whole different matter.
one word : standards. the opensource community thrives on them and makes reference implmentations available to *anything* thats a standard whether open or not. gcc is far superior and standards compliant than 99% of the commercial compilers, linux strives to be POSIX compliant along with BSD, tar and gzip are open standards and used extensively, gimp uses open formats for reading images etc.
i have no idea. they shouldnt be using old pentium pro machines...its not safe. journalling filesystems are the same as non journalling ones excepting the journal logs (metadata) and a few other changes.
those are all single processor and not SMP boxes. a true multithreaded stack would have the capability to break itself into multiple threads and spread across multiple processors. check the BSD source code and see for yourself. there are several large locks around most of the stack. im not saying the BSD stack is bad - its really good on single cpu machines. multiprocessor machines are a whole new ballgame. even openbsd cant support multiprocessor yet and freebsd has just got into the game.
uuh..where dyou get all this from ? benchmarks have shown linux and BSD IP stacks are roughly on par with each other since they both use the same large single threaded locks (although this is changing in linux 2.3 but not in BSD). Virtual memory is roughly equivalent - they both use the same basic structures. BSD is slightly faster on the locking since they take a risky approach which linux rejected since it would fail on a small segment of pentium pros (check the kernel archives). reiserfs, ext3 are both journalling as is XFS..so you can complain about ext2 NOW, but for the future linux will overtake BSD's filesystem. The weird thing is that NT's multithreaded IP stack blows linux AND BSD out of the water..at least for now with multiple ethernet cards and card/cpu affinity.
i took 9 months to get my masters (36 credits). 32 credits per semester plus a project on the side (this is in a university ranked among the top 10 and in massachussets - no prizes for guessing which..:)).
do you feel that free software will threaten the job market in the computer industry ? eventually free software *will* be better than commercial (various reasons including extended beta cycles etc)..will this alter the software industry for the worse ?
DSPs/FPGAs are better suited to the task of image processing than any psuedo modified gaming console video processor that has to be rverese engineered and taken out of the board without breaking its leads. this is probably a tactic by sony to kill the grey export market.
get yerself an alpha or a K7. more floating point performance and bang for the buck + an open spec and chipset. and commodity boards can get you supercomputer performance without extensive mods.
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hmm..looks like youre off on a tangent here. i agree..ripping off other peoples work is bad if its meant to be paid for...but what of the artists who give away their work for nothing ? napster is a distributed filesystem. they should be going after the people using napster not napster itself (hint - people pirate, software doesnt) the GPL isnt meant to be perfect and youre not supposed to "live by it". i code for a living writing proprietary software but i do write GPLed software in my free time and on my desk at work is a linux box (and im VERY grateful that i dont have to use windblows 2001 or some other shit). im not advocating piracy and neither is RMS. "in my world" if you had a website selling a product with no source, i'd buy it if i needed it and there were no alternatives available that were free. the point of this is that free software is software that had to be written, an itch to be scratched...music, software, paintings, books, scietific papers..a large percentage of anything is usually free..its fairly commonplace for hundreds of years (both in western and eastern civilisations) and just becuase the concept of free software is new doesnt mean that the concept of stuff being given away free is "communist". moderation on slashdot keeps the noise levels down..you can still read at -1 or lower like i do. if you were trained in the scientific fields or you spent a significant amount of time at a decent university, you'd be able to grasp these concepts and more.
isnt it the terms of the patent that it belongs to the guy who invented it for 20 odd years ? can he "sell" all rights to it the same way as any other object ? and if he does and decides to use some of whats in the patent does he have to relicense it from the person he sold it to ?
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it doesnt mean we shouldnt try to change it for the *better*. just because some people are trying to lock us into proprietary standards doesnt mean that anyone should accept them blindly as the notion of the future.
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i know youre a troll but i have to ask : why ? if you dont like gnu software dont use it and it wont waste your time. why do people have prejudices against programmers who simply give software away for free on the condition that if you take their code and modify it you must distribute the modifications for free ? I fail to see the logic of stealing someones code and trying to lock it up just to prove that you hate RMS or some other childish reason. face it bub - if it werent for free software (and i include the BSD, X11 or any other free license in this statement) we'd all be using operating systems we hate, writing crappy gui stuff with all the specs drafted by marketing, releasing buggy crud on the planet with no hope and in general being slaves to the whim of companies. at least now i can go out and show everyone my code - hey look - *i* did this and you can compile it on your sun/hp/sgi/intel/amd box and run it for yourself.
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they sold out wholesale. consumers can still buy em..its not sold out retail yet and probably wont for a while. get em while they last. im still waiting for SMP tho. 1GHz dual K7's would really rock.
but why ? its not like theres a computer shortage or anything. Q1 2K was supposed to have slightly higher demand but not this much. and the growth from 99 -> 2K has been following the usual trends..no biggie increase.
dude, you have no sense of humor (and neither does that kaufmann guy). you might want to actually look at the damn link before spouting off. BTW, the UNIX haters handbook was written by people who contributed significantly to UNIX itself..heres a clue - dennis ritchie contributed to the book as did programmers who worked on the solaris NeWs system, NeXT and others. and moderators - that applies to you too. man...i dont believe i got moderated down for posting a link to the handbook.
The beauty of UNIX is doing things RIGHT. the first time. simple commands building on each other to produce a complicated system is the *right* way to go. two letters for each command speeds up the learning process, piping seamlessly allows interaction between commands, C allows a higher abstration than assembly (and faster prototyping - heck, only java has come somewhere close to C...no other language can touch it even after 30 years..C++ doesnt count - its a bad idea) and decent performance, seamless multithreading (especially & for background jobs), remote display of graphics, etc etc.
The more things change - the more they stay the same.
yep. i second this fully. for all those of us plotting to destroy UNIX, this book is a must read. really.
*do NOT* buy a BP6 for a server. the BP6 has more problems than any other motherboard out there.
ABIT SUCKS...even though there have been good reviews..this board is bad bad bad.
want proof ?
here's some
lock ups
filesystem corruption
i've got 4 abit's and those are the last abit's im going to buy..all non overclocked with clean PSU's, 500Mhz celerons and APM off/ACPI off/noapic options and i get lockups with ALL OF THEM.
specially since they traced the logs on the routers..as the "security expert" who got trolled by 2600 pointed out, the QoS logs on the routers dont lie.
which doesnt mean anything. you still have to shell out $$$ to buy a HDTV convertor box or even more $$$!!! to buy a HDTV set.
of course, since theres nothing worth watching on TV anyway...
universities are a hell of a lot more than 'reading the right book'. the feedback you get from a class full of your peers, some of who may be smarter than you, plus the feedback from professors is a *lot* more than you can get in the "real world" where someone with your skillset or better may be miles away from you. universities tend to concentrate the best of the best and put them within talking distance of each other.
you can simply invert the bitmask of the colour selected to get a contrasting colour...FFFFF = black so invert to get white etc etc.
umm..what good is changing your mac address ? they can still track you thru your dynamically assigned ip address (address assigned to your machine by their DHCP server). and anyway, most OSes allow you to change your MAC address..no biggie. try this in linux :
ifconfig eth1 hw ether deadbeef0001
(this needs do be done while the card is down for obvious reasons) now your card will answer all arp requests with DE:AD:BE:EF:00:01.
*sun* NFS support (not just plain vanilla NFS) compiled into the 2.2.14 kernel. works fine with my solaris 2.6 and 2.7 boxen.
from someone running tcpdump at your ISP ?
its evident that https and ssh sessions to machines dont/wont get sniffed by this system...as more and more web servers support https (specially with the impending expiry of RSA's patents) this sort of scheme will collapse completely.
if you arent running ssh at least now...i sugggest you do so. i've seen packet sniffers running on most isps...whether the isp was aware of it or not is a whole different matter.
one word : standards. the opensource community thrives on them and makes reference implmentations available to *anything* thats a standard whether open or not. gcc is far superior and standards compliant than 99% of the commercial compilers, linux strives to be POSIX compliant along with BSD, tar and gzip are open standards and used extensively, gimp uses open formats for reading images etc.
i have no idea. they shouldnt be using old pentium pro machines...its not safe. journalling filesystems are the same as non journalling ones excepting the journal logs (metadata) and a few other changes.
those are all single processor and not SMP boxes. a true multithreaded stack would have the capability to break itself into multiple threads and spread across multiple processors. check the BSD source code and see for yourself. there are several large locks around most of the stack. im not saying the BSD stack is bad - its really good on single cpu machines. multiprocessor machines are a whole new ballgame. even openbsd cant support multiprocessor yet and freebsd has just got into the game.
uuh..where dyou get all this from ? benchmarks have shown linux and BSD IP stacks are roughly on par with each other since they both use the same large single threaded locks (although this is changing in linux 2.3 but not in BSD). Virtual memory is roughly equivalent - they both use the same basic structures. BSD is slightly faster on the locking since they take a risky approach which linux rejected since it would fail on a small segment of pentium pros (check the kernel archives). reiserfs, ext3 are both journalling as is XFS..so you can complain about ext2 NOW, but for the future linux will overtake BSD's filesystem.
The weird thing is that NT's multithreaded IP stack blows linux AND BSD out of the water..at least for now with multiple ethernet cards and card/cpu affinity.
i took 9 months to get my masters (36 credits). 32 credits per semester plus a project on the side (this is in a university ranked among the top 10 and in massachussets - no prizes for guessing which..:)).
do you feel that free software will threaten the job market in the computer industry ? eventually free software *will* be better than commercial (various reasons including extended beta cycles etc) ..will this alter the software industry for the worse ?
DSPs/FPGAs are better suited to the task of image processing than any psuedo modified gaming console video processor that has to be rverese engineered and taken out of the board without breaking its leads. this is probably a tactic by sony to kill the grey export market.
get yerself an alpha or a K7. more floating point performance and bang for the buck + an open spec and chipset. and commodity boards can get you supercomputer performance without extensive mods.
hmm..looks like youre off on a tangent here. i agree..ripping off other peoples work is bad if its meant to be paid for...but what of the artists who give away their work for nothing ? napster is a distributed filesystem. they should be going after the people using napster not napster itself (hint - people pirate, software doesnt) ..you can still read at -1 or lower like i do.
the GPL isnt meant to be perfect and youre not supposed to "live by it". i code for a living writing proprietary software but i do write GPLed software in my free time and on my desk at work is a linux box (and im VERY grateful that i dont have to use windblows 2001 or some other shit). im not advocating piracy and neither is RMS. "in my world" if you had a website selling a product with no source, i'd buy it if i needed it and there were no alternatives available that were free.
the point of this is that free software is software that had to be written, an itch to be scratched...music, software, paintings, books, scietific papers..a large percentage of anything is usually free..its fairly commonplace for hundreds of years (both in western and eastern civilisations) and just becuase the concept of free software is new doesnt mean that the concept of stuff being given away free is "communist".
moderation on slashdot keeps the noise levels down
if you were trained in the scientific fields or you spent a significant amount of time at a decent university, you'd be able to grasp these concepts and more.
isnt it the terms of the patent that it belongs to the guy who invented it for 20 odd years ? can he "sell" all rights to it the same way as any other object ? and if he does and decides to use some of whats in the patent does he have to relicense it from the person he sold it to ?
it doesnt mean we shouldnt try to change it for the *better*. just because some people are trying to lock us into proprietary standards doesnt mean that anyone should accept them blindly as the notion of the future.
i know youre a troll but i have to ask : why ?
if you dont like gnu software dont use it and it wont waste your time. why do people have prejudices against programmers who simply give software away for free on the condition that if you take their code and modify it you must distribute the modifications for free ?
I fail to see the logic of stealing someones code and trying to lock it up just to prove that you hate RMS or some other childish reason.
face it bub - if it werent for free software (and i include the BSD, X11 or any other free license in this statement) we'd all be using operating systems we hate, writing crappy gui stuff with all the specs drafted by marketing, releasing buggy crud on the planet with no hope and in general being slaves to the whim of companies.
at least now i can go out and show everyone my code - hey look - *i* did this and you can compile it on your sun/hp/sgi/intel/amd box and run it for yourself.