The AS/400 has come a long way from the green screen days of the 80s... Check out the new models - it might actually surprise you (heck, they run OS/400, AIX binaries, have NT available on an Integrated Netfinity Server, DB2 built (free) into the OS, the fastest JavaVM available...), has more processing power (with SOI and copper in the CPUs), mainframe-like I/O and reliability, even in the smaller models (which cost significantly less than any mainframe). I've been told they have a really low TCO, too... This is not your father's AS/400.
(yes, I work for IBM... no secret there) Sorry to sound like a marketing droid - I'm an engineer, really...
So trade an old AS/400 for a new one [/shameless plug]
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Your disk storage (regardless of whether it happens to be mechanical or otherwise) will still take quite a bit more than 80ns to actually return to the uProc, mainly because of the PCI arbitration, command, disconect, reselection, etc that all has to occur before the actual data gets transferred...
There are solid state drives (HD form factor, basically filled with DRAM) that are rather fast, but one GB will set you back a few thousand $$. That also, of course, isn't preserved across power cycles, but for use as a large cache is rather exciting (see the new pop favorites "Swapping out to disk never felt so good" or "Is My Entire Database is RAM?" and of course the new craze, "Oops, I cached it again").
Generic x86 motherboards are fairly low performance, but are also very low cost (for the most part)... Note also that AGP 2x is essentially DDR (an effective 133MHz), and that there has been 64b/66MHz PCI for quite a long time now, but cheap boards and cheap cards won't take advantage of that (especially since you really need two PCI busses on a system then).
Comparing MHz of a GPU, CPU and RAM module is generally fairly useless... saying that the GeForce2U only runs at 250MHz doesn't really mean a whole lot. A more effective comparison would be the throughput/bandwidth of the chip/memory modules, since that is more immediately relevant.
The government pays schools and corporations for R&D (i.e. MIT, RPI, Caltech, Lockheed, etc). IBM will research anything that is relevant (major computing advance) that they (we) can sell at a profit (it *is* a business).
>The most likely the reason why they are banning VPN's from @home is to sell their @work remote access service [LINK].
I like the fact that they have a typo in their graphic on that page... 'Corporat' and 'Corporate' both appear... you think they could at least be consistent...
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maybe make_coffee would have been a better example...
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You could always SUID it... or just give the user program enough hooks to do the job.
Where I live, they provide a *special* version of the service that allows/provides the VPN access to IBM and the Mayo Clinic (guess the city). You can only access the VPN if you are on the subnet for the special version of the service... seems like they want to take over the whole VPN thing with telecommuters.
I'm really close for DSL, so my connection there would be great, but it doesn't provide (and Bresnan/@Home doesn't allow) access to the company VPN... A pain, to be sure... I'd rather have near guaranteed bandwith, real static IP(s) and not have to worry about violating the TOS with my connection (basic webserver and ssh caused a problem once).
I think that may be dependant on your particular provider, too... the reps *suggested* that for my last apartment when I signed up, and when I moved into my house, they certainly didn't have a problem with it... you have to use NAT, though - you can't just plug the cable modem into a hub...
The idea would be that the software to replace the mp3 player would be just as free as they are today. I don't think Sterno's comment covered the luggable players and DVD players that can play MP3 CD-Rs...
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Solaris x86 is really poor, especially compared to Solaris for the Sparcs...
>IBM is not into chips (except in some dedicated products)
IBM isn't into commodity PC hardware chips... by dedicated products I'll assume you mean the bulk of the chips in the S/390, AS/400, RS/6000 and Netfinity lines...
I remember about a year ago, I got a very unofficial pack that sorta put dx5 (limited) onto NT4. It let a bunch of things run, but most others wouldn't... Not quite the real thing, but a good hack for some.
PGP is Pretty Good Privacy. Encryption, digital signatures... good stuff. Check out www.pgp.com or http://www.pgpI.org/ if you are outside of the USA.
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>moves to ASCII instead of EBDIC
Yeah, I'm not real crazy about that, either... not that they give me a say in that 8^D
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The AS/400 has come a long way from the green screen days of the 80s... Check out the new models - it might actually surprise you (heck, they run OS/400, AIX binaries, have NT available on an Integrated Netfinity Server, DB2 built (free) into the OS, the fastest JavaVM available...), has more processing power (with SOI and copper in the CPUs), mainframe-like I/O and reliability, even in the smaller models (which cost significantly less than any mainframe). I've been told they have a really low TCO, too... This is not your father's AS/400.
(yes, I work for IBM... no secret there) Sorry to sound like a marketing droid - I'm an engineer, really...
So trade an old AS/400 for a new one [/shameless plug]
I'll agree with the VAX -> Alpha tradeup, though 8^)
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Good for making toast, too! 128MB of that has got to get pretty hot, methinks.
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Your disk storage (regardless of whether it happens to be mechanical or otherwise) will still take quite a bit more than 80ns to actually return to the uProc, mainly because of the PCI arbitration, command, disconect, reselection, etc that all has to occur before the actual data gets transferred...
There are solid state drives (HD form factor, basically filled with DRAM) that are rather fast, but one GB will set you back a few thousand $$. That also, of course, isn't preserved across power cycles, but for use as a large cache is rather exciting (see the new pop favorites "Swapping out to disk never felt so good" or "Is My Entire Database is RAM?" and of course the new craze, "Oops, I cached it again").
I gotta get more sleep...
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Generic x86 motherboards are fairly low performance, but are also very low cost (for the most part)... Note also that AGP 2x is essentially DDR (an effective 133MHz), and that there has been 64b/66MHz PCI for quite a long time now, but cheap boards and cheap cards won't take advantage of that (especially since you really need two PCI busses on a system then).
Comparing MHz of a GPU, CPU and RAM module is generally fairly useless... saying that the GeForce2U only runs at 250MHz doesn't really mean a whole lot. A more effective comparison would be the throughput/bandwidth of the chip/memory modules, since that is more immediately relevant.
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I think his desktop is 200MHz and 64MB...
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I thought domain names were limited to 26 characters ;-)
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Hmmm.... enough CPU power to run Xfree86 in Java... well, a 24 CPU AS/400 should do it - a screaming fast JVM. It might not suck quite as hard then...
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>So when will Fry's get their next shipment of Deep Blue?
"Real Soon Now"... BTW, what is a Fry's (don't remember hearing of them in NJ, near Albany, NY or here in MN... I'm guessing it's like a BestBuy?
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Yeah... "NOTE: This software must be installed as 'root'"
1) "R00t? Who is that? Did they put his number on this CD?"
2) "Ok, sure."
equally clueless, equally dangerous...
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The government pays schools and corporations for R&D (i.e. MIT, RPI, Caltech, Lockheed, etc). IBM will research anything that is relevant (major computing advance) that they (we) can sell at a profit (it *is* a business).
#include<std_disclaim.h>
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And here I was planning on making a deathmatch board out of the Rochester site... maybe I'll have to go visit Austin sometime 8^)
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You could also just use rsh, and keep everything contained that way... I try to stay away from NFS, but that could work, too...
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especially since it already comes with one substandard telnet client... telnet.exe
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>The most likely the reason why they are banning VPN's from @home is to sell their @work remote access service [LINK].
I like the fact that they have a typo in their graphic on that page... 'Corporat' and 'Corporate' both appear... you think they could at least be consistent...
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maybe make_coffee would have been a better example...
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You could always SUID it... or just give the user program enough hooks to do the job.
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Where I live, they provide a *special* version of the service that allows/provides the VPN access to IBM and the Mayo Clinic (guess the city). You can only access the VPN if you are on the subnet for the special version of the service... seems like they want to take over the whole VPN thing with telecommuters.
I'm really close for DSL, so my connection there would be great, but it doesn't provide (and Bresnan/@Home doesn't allow) access to the company VPN... A pain, to be sure... I'd rather have near guaranteed bandwith, real static IP(s) and not have to worry about violating the TOS with my connection (basic webserver and ssh caused a problem once).
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I think that may be dependant on your particular provider, too... the reps *suggested* that for my last apartment when I signed up, and when I moved into my house, they certainly didn't have a problem with it... you have to use NAT, though - you can't just plug the cable modem into a hub...
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The idea would be that the software to replace the mp3 player would be just as free as they are today. I don't think Sterno's comment covered the luggable players and DVD players that can play MP3 CD-Rs...
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Solaris x86 is really poor, especially compared to Solaris for the Sparcs...
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>IBM is not into chips (except in some dedicated products)
IBM isn't into commodity PC hardware chips... by dedicated products I'll assume you mean the bulk of the chips in the S/390, AS/400, RS/6000 and Netfinity lines...
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I remember about a year ago, I got a very unofficial pack that sorta put dx5 (limited) onto NT4. It let a bunch of things run, but most others wouldn't... Not quite the real thing, but a good hack for some.
PGP is Pretty Good Privacy. Encryption, digital signatures... good stuff. Check out www.pgp.com or http://www.pgpI.org/ if you are outside of the USA.
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Sorry to stomp on your fine haiku, but the 2nd line is missing a syllable. Easily fixed though - just add "Did" to start of line.
Damn... It was in there when I thought it up... stupid brain!
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