Yeah, and with all the static on that plastic, the dust would stick all over it even more (hundreds of times worse if you have filthy habits like smoking, or cat ownership;-) --
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Think about it - fantasy sports players have always asked, "How would Babe Ruth and Ted Williams do in today's baseball world?" Now you could find out.
From < A HREF="http://www.chips.ibm.com/bluelogic/showcase/ soi/">
http://www.chips.ibm.com/bluelogic/showcase/soi/ &l t;/A>
"SOI technology improves performance over bulk CMOS technology by 25 to 35%, equivalent to two years of bulk CMOS advances. SOI technology also brings power use advantages of 1.7 to 3 times. IBM is currently working with many circuit designers and product groups that are designing with SOI technology. The company expects SOI to eventually replace bulk CMOS as the most commonly used substrate for advanced CMOS in mainstream microprocessors and other emerging wireless electronic devices requiring low power."
A power use adantage of 1.7 to 3 times... that's pretty nice. There's a good pdf on that site (linked from the page above). Read it. --
The Apple switch to PowerPC was one of the smartest and best examples of shaping up that has been done. Granted, there was a lot of software in emulation, but after a couple turns of the crank, that loss was more than gained back in raw speed.
Kind of like the FX!32 emulator for NT on Alpha. At the time it was out (and still supported), the emulated apps on the Alpha massively outperformed the same code running natively on the newest Intel hardware (PPro and early P-IIs). --
Hmmm... I was envisioning more of the C-64 style of power supply (or the same thing found on many printers and some computer speaker sets). Standard 3-prong plug -> 2/4 ft of wire -> Fairly Large box -> 2-6 ft of wire -> power-hungry box. Lets you have control over the placement of the power converter, and doesn't use up any extra plug space. Wall warts are only good for low wattage apps. Wouldn't be all that nice for a 100-200W multi-voltage supply...
FYI: "misspelt" isn't a word, either... if you are keeping score. Chances are you should check your (not you're) own grammer and spelling in posts that rag on the same. --
Yes, there has been 64/66 in a lot of servers for a few years now (even a lot of workstations have had 64 bit slots, albeit 33MHz). The point was regarding the desktop market, which is more cost driven than performance driven at this time. --
Well, there is a big difference between PCI-X and IB... PCI-X is defined to be a local bus interconnect, while IB is designed to be extensible for everything from local bus to SAN fabric, to the entire Internet (GIDs / IPv6). PCI/PCI-X provide data transfer, and a little notification, while IB is more of an application level interconnect (with memory protection, provisions for flow control and fairness, and a whole lot of higher level concepts). IB tries to be everything to everyone (that's what happens when you take the NGIO and FutureIO specs and ram them together, and invite more people to add requirements.
One thing to remember about IB - the pinout for IB (be it Fiber or copper) is substantially less than that for the PCI local bus specs (being a serial, rather than parallel interface). IB could be useful for hooking up SANs, clusters, etc... but for the most part, it won't replace PCI/PCI-X for endpoints. There are several companies that have or are making IB to PCI/PCI-X bridge chips. A great thing for external I/O or storage towers. There's a lot of hardware involved, and for the server market, it could be a great thing. For desktops, well - it will be quite a while before anyone bothers... we still don't have 64b slots/adapters and/or a 66MHz bus on PCs (cost/benefit problems there), so until those are in demand for desktops, there shouldn't be too much of a push for an even higher bandwidth, more expensive internal connection...
(disclaimer: I work for one of the 'Big 7', though not directly on IB at the moment) --
"I figured it would already be up here."... right, perhaps even on slashdot just over a week ago. Considering a search on "Big Bang" turns it up, it doesn't seem as if anyone looked very hard. (you too, Hemos)
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(quoted from somewhere)
"RS232 data is bi-polar.... +3 TO +12 volts indicates an "ON or 0-state (SPACE) condition" while A -3 to -12 volts indicates an "OFF" 1-state (MARK) condition.... Modern computer equipment ignores the negative level and accepts a zero voltage level as the "OFF" state. In fact, the "ON" state may be achieved with lesser positive potential. This means circuits powered by 5 VDC are capable of driving RS232 circuits directly, however, the overall range that the RS232 signal may be transmitted/received may be dramatically reduced.
The output signal level usually swings between +12V and -12V. The "dead area" between +3v and -3v is designed to absorb line noise. In the various RS-232-like definitions this dead area may vary. For instance, the definition for V.10 has a dead area from +0.3v to -0.3v. Many receivers designed for RS-232 are sensitive to differentials of 1v or less."
Mach is directly related to the (variant) speed of sound, so it is most useful (only useful?) when you discuss Mach 1, when there is a real physical effect. Above that, everything is gravy. --
Well, really, the whole x86 line is just a redesigned wheel, albeit with more chrome each model, and a little more round... a lot of the real work is in the feature size of the transistors and wires... so it's like making a wheel out of alloy instead of steel, or wood... the original architecture (vaguely round) was nice, but until we got the precision casting, we couldn't have such nicely round and balanced wheels, which can now go quite a bit faster...
ok, the analogy sucked... but you expect creative thought on a *Tuesday*?! --
I was going to suggest that the MIG is more of a Boxster or Z3 compared to the P-3 yellow school bus, but thinking a little longer on it, you are right - the Mustang is probably more apt. After all, I remember hearing the commercial (SNL):
"Ford, where quality is job 2.... job 1 is making your car explode."
>The movie "Wag The Dog" is probably much more realistic than we think.
There was a lot of truth in there... take, for example, the words of a CIA operative in the movie:
"I know two things: First, there's no difference between good flan and bad flan, and second - there's no war in Albania."
>Of course, the Chinese hate it (so did the Russians when we did it to them, so did we when they did it to us)
Of course, with the Russians, we had a sneaking suspicion that they were rebroadcasting games without the express written consent of Major League Baseball, and that is a Bad Thing(TM).
It would be a nice thing... web broacast classes, for example, are a great thing for those of us who work full time, and want to watch the class from home on a broadband connection... however, the connection at the school, or their real video server, has major problems after about 15 minutes... it usually takes about twice as long to watch a single class - not very effective. They won't allow direct access to download the files (due to IP issues, I suppose - though for a couple of these classes the prof is nearly reading from a couple books for a number of the class sessions)... but aren't interested in solving the problem, giving really lame answers, confusing KB/s with Kb/s, and just being altogether unhelpful. If would be nice for to have some type of client that would just go get the whole thing, so we could watch it w/o problem. [/rant]
Well, the APC UPSs are supported quite nicely through several tools on Linux:
The free apcupsd (I think this is the one that ships with Mandrake)
http://www.sibbald.com/apcupsd/ (among other places)
or even from APC:
http://www.apcc.com/tools/download/index.cfm
There are some nifty network UPS monitoring tools, but I seem to have lost the link for those (they allow you to check all the UPSs on your network via a web browser). --
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Actually, I didn't expect to get modded up - I was just trying to help prove the point from the parent post...
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Besides, I don't work for Microelectronics Division
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Yeah, and with all the static on that plastic, the dust would stick all over it even more (hundreds of times worse if you have filthy habits like smoking, or cat ownership ;-)
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Think about it - fantasy sports players have always asked, "How would Babe Ruth and Ted Williams do in today's baseball world?" Now you could find out.
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Could be worse... "Inna gadda da vida, baby"?!
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The RIAA doesn't worry about public opinion - the make it! After all, who made Steve Gutenberg a star... oh, wait.... that was the Stonecutters...
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Maybe it will be as sucessful as the Million Mom March... they almost got ten thousand people...
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If I had points, I'd mod this way up...
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From < A HREF="http://www.chips.ibm.com/bluelogic/showcase
http://www.chips.ibm.com/bluelogic/showcase/soi
"SOI technology improves performance over bulk CMOS technology by 25 to 35%, equivalent to two years of bulk CMOS advances. SOI technology also brings power use advantages of 1.7 to 3 times. IBM is currently working with many circuit designers and product groups that are designing with SOI technology. The company expects SOI to eventually replace bulk CMOS as the most commonly used substrate for advanced CMOS in mainstream microprocessors and other emerging wireless electronic devices requiring low power."
A power use adantage of 1.7 to 3 times... that's pretty nice. There's a good pdf on that site (linked from the page above). Read it.
--
The Apple switch to PowerPC was one of the smartest and best examples of shaping up that has been done. Granted, there was a lot of software in emulation, but after a couple turns of the crank, that loss was more than gained back in raw speed.
Kind of like the FX!32 emulator for NT on Alpha. At the time it was out (and still supported), the emulated apps on the Alpha massively outperformed the same code running natively on the newest Intel hardware (PPro and early P-IIs).
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Usually that means 105mm per side:
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Hmmm... I was envisioning more of the C-64 style of power supply (or the same thing found on many printers and some computer speaker sets). Standard 3-prong plug -> 2/4 ft of wire -> Fairly Large box -> 2-6 ft of wire -> power-hungry box. Lets you have control over the placement of the power converter, and doesn't use up any extra plug space. Wall warts are only good for low wattage apps. Wouldn't be all that nice for a 100-200W multi-voltage supply...
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FYI: "misspelt" isn't a word, either... if you are keeping score. Chances are you should check your (not you're) own grammer and spelling in posts that rag on the same.
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Yes, there has been 64/66 in a lot of servers for a few years now (even a lot of workstations have had 64 bit slots, albeit 33MHz). The point was regarding the desktop market, which is more cost driven than performance driven at this time.
--
Well, there is a big difference between PCI-X and IB... PCI-X is defined to be a local bus interconnect, while IB is designed to be extensible for everything from local bus to SAN fabric, to the entire Internet (GIDs / IPv6). PCI/PCI-X provide data transfer, and a little notification, while IB is more of an application level interconnect (with memory protection, provisions for flow control and fairness, and a whole lot of higher level concepts). IB tries to be everything to everyone (that's what happens when you take the NGIO and FutureIO specs and ram them together, and invite more people to add requirements.
One thing to remember about IB - the pinout for IB (be it Fiber or copper) is substantially less than that for the PCI local bus specs (being a serial, rather than parallel interface). IB could be useful for hooking up SANs, clusters, etc... but for the most part, it won't replace PCI/PCI-X for endpoints. There are several companies that have or are making IB to PCI/PCI-X bridge chips. A great thing for external I/O or storage towers. There's a lot of hardware involved, and for the server market, it could be a great thing. For desktops, well - it will be quite a while before anyone bothers... we still don't have 64b slots/adapters and/or a 66MHz bus on PCs (cost/benefit problems there), so until those are in demand for desktops, there shouldn't be too much of a push for an even higher bandwidth, more expensive internal connection...
(disclaimer: I work for one of the 'Big 7', though not directly on IB at the moment)
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"I figured it would already be up here."... right, perhaps even
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"I figured it would already be up here."... right, perhaps even on slashdot just over a week ago. Considering a search on "Big Bang" turns it up, it doesn't seem as if anyone looked very hard. (you too, Hemos)
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Sound and serial ports (sometimes)...
(quoted from somewhere)
"RS232 data is bi-polar.... +3 TO +12 volts indicates an "ON or 0-state (SPACE) condition" while A -3 to -12 volts indicates an "OFF" 1-state (MARK) condition.... Modern computer equipment ignores the negative level and accepts a zero voltage level as the "OFF" state. In fact, the "ON" state may be achieved with lesser positive potential. This means circuits powered by 5 VDC are capable of driving RS232 circuits directly, however, the overall range that the RS232 signal may be transmitted/received may be dramatically reduced.
The output signal level usually swings between +12V and -12V. The "dead area" between +3v and -3v is designed to absorb line noise. In the various RS-232-like definitions this dead area may vary. For instance, the definition for V.10 has a dead area from +0.3v to -0.3v. Many receivers designed for RS-232 are sensitive to differentials of 1v or less."
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Alas Poor Clippy
Gone are his words of wisdom
Turn on the Yankees
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Probably not Toys'R'Us - Funcoland, most likely... they deal in used stuff.
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Mach is directly related to the (variant) speed of sound, so it is most useful (only useful?) when you discuss Mach 1, when there is a real physical effect. Above that, everything is gravy.
--
Well, really, the whole x86 line is just a redesigned wheel, albeit with more chrome each model, and a little more round... a lot of the real work is in the feature size of the transistors and wires... so it's like making a wheel out of alloy instead of steel, or wood... the original architecture (vaguely round) was nice, but until we got the precision casting, we couldn't have such nicely round and balanced wheels, which can now go quite a bit faster...
ok, the analogy sucked... but you expect creative thought on a *Tuesday*?!
--
I was going to suggest that the MIG is more of a Boxster or Z3 compared to the P-3 yellow school bus, but thinking a little longer on it, you are right - the Mustang is probably more apt. After all, I remember hearing the commercial (SNL):
"Ford, where quality is job 2.... job 1 is making your car explode."
Seems rather apt...
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>The movie "Wag The Dog" is probably much more realistic than we think.
There was a lot of truth in there... take, for example, the words of a CIA operative in the movie:
"I know two things: First, there's no difference between good flan and bad flan, and second - there's no war in Albania."
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>Of course, the Chinese hate it (so did the Russians when we did it to them, so did we when they did it to us)
Of course, with the Russians, we had a sneaking suspicion that they were rebroadcasting games without the express written consent of Major League Baseball, and that is a Bad Thing(TM).
--
It would be a nice thing... web broacast classes, for example, are a great thing for those of us who work full time, and want to watch the class from home on a broadband connection... however, the connection at the school, or their real video server, has major problems after about 15 minutes... it usually takes about twice as long to watch a single class - not very effective. They won't allow direct access to download the files (due to IP issues, I suppose - though for a couple of these classes the prof is nearly reading from a couple books for a number of the class sessions)... but aren't interested in solving the problem, giving really lame answers, confusing KB/s with Kb/s, and just being altogether unhelpful. If would be nice for to have some type of client that would just go get the whole thing, so we could watch it w/o problem. [/rant]
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Well, the APC UPSs are supported quite nicely through several tools on Linux:
The free apcupsd (I think this is the one that ships with Mandrake)
http://www.sibbald.com/apcupsd/ (among other places)
or even from APC:
http://www.apcc.com/tools/download/index.cfm
There are some nifty network UPS monitoring tools, but I seem to have lost the link for those (they allow you to check all the UPSs on your network via a web browser).
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