MYTH: Most large scale enterprise server drive storage is larger-sized diskx.
Fact: Most large DB systems prefer to have collections of the *smallest* capacity points (was 4GB, now usually 9GB), so that they can gain more from performace. More arms, less spindle time, more throughput. Large scale RAID arrays are far more likely to get a terabyte by RAIDing ~130 9GB drives than by RAIDing 30 40GB drives.
Single workstations (for MM) may have a large drive for storage, but that's not the server.
Ah, so if you deduct it, you get your (say 40%) of that cost back... so, you mean that (COST_OF_n_NT_LICENSES x.60) < COST_OF_n_LINUX_LICENSES? (leaving out the support calls, we'll assume they are the same). Some is still more than none. That being said, almost every OS has its place.
Ok, a course may tell you how to guess on multiple choice questions. Yippee - yeah, some of them guarantee a 100 point gain (as long as you start out under a certain level). Not tough.
You *should* know a fair amount of english words by the time you are a junior in high school. TV, books, *class* - these things all help.
If you can't understand the questions or the math problems on the SAT, you just might not have the aptitude for a serious tech education. Remember that the minimum score for this is just around what... the 55th percentile. If you aren't smarter than half the people out there...
Ability to learn those concepts though a defined chunk of time (10/11 grade levels) *is* a measure of how smart/capable someone could be. Not the best, but still fairly accurate.
(note: I'm biased - a near perfect score will do that to you...)
Education is what you make of it. The quality of instruction often *can and will* be worse at some cheaper schools, but that isn't necessarily a money factor, and, as I think most/.rs will agree, most of your learning is on your own time. I went to an old, distinguished east coast tech school. Got one of those nifty Computer Engineering degrees. Learned a whole ton doing that. Got more out of my classes than a lot of others there, because I made a point of taking challenging courses. Got a lot out of college because I didn't lock myself up ot study all the time. Got a lot more learning done interacting with a lot of other people who shared common tech interests, and developed skills that way that further enhanced my formal education. Access to people and ideas is another big benefit of college (you can access ideas on the net, too, but it just isn't the same thing as talking one-on-one with an engineer who has been doing processor development for many years - you get a lot out of it.
Smaller class sizes and non-lecture based learning also helps a lot with the student/faculty interaction problems you mentioned. There were several professors at my school that took the time to make sure they knew everyone by sight, even in the mid to large lectures. That really helps later on. It makes it easier to talk to them, and helps out when reccomendations come around;-)
I've already posted some of my thoughts on the SATs... and most of your thoughts are right on target. I have concerns on requiring SATs for this program, but, hey... they *do* need to restrict is somewhat. Of course, there are many people who never took the SAT (maybe the ACT or some other test, or maybe it wasn't recent...). Do they maintain another path for these people to enter? Certainly there are a lot of qualified people who never had the opportunity to fill in lots of circles with a #2 pencil.
I don't think their score was all that remarkable, so it should be low enough to counteract some of the socioeconomic factors... my high school graduating class (~100 students, public school) *averaged* about what this required score was... this shouldn't be too limiting. I think the national average is ~1000 - not too tough.
If they took IQ scores instead, people would have the same gripes.
do *NOT* reflect whether or not someone does homework, driven, etc...
Speaking from personal experience (mine and my brother's) - we both scored well on the SAT verbal (760 and 800), but did either of us ever do a rough draft for our writing assignments? (nope) did we do things on time? (only when we felt like it) could we have gotten straight 'A's in English classes? (yes) did we? (no, we didn't care)
That score doesn't reveal any of that information (neither does the AP test for that matter...) - all it measures is your aptitude, not you accomplishments. Standardized testing is great for some things (like getting me into schools;-), but it's not telling at all for a lot of other things.
All of mine have at least one, so I make up for the others;-)
Actually, the more broadband access we see, the more network cards make their way into home machines. Cable Modem -> ethernet... external DSL modem -> ethernet. More and more of these all the time.
or you could just use an old net card that gathering dust one day, and another one the next day... keep 'em all fooled;-)
at one time, the Intel Ether Pro/10 cards were being sold in a bundle for ~$2 a card... grab a bunch of those, trade them around with friends... a grand old time.
you can also run through one of the anonymizer services out there, create some free accounts on free BBSs... if you just want to avoid simple traces...
You can avoid the HTTP-REFERRER stuff by just using wget for every page;-)
Well, that's settable on some net cards, but not all of them... a lot of times that # is in a NVRAM/FLASH, but in some cards it *is* hard wired, and you can't change it. Sure, you can change what you think it is, but it might not have a whole lot of real effect. Also, if nothing else, the bits that tell who manufactured the card are usually not changable, so you can be 'restricted' from spoofing an SMC as a 3Com, etc...
and, in the unlikely case that someone on your local net *does* have the same HW address (small chance from a rnd, but it is there)... well, you're both in for a good time.
Also, the Ask/. that will get posted, but won't have any real responses (oh wait, Jon Katz wrote an article on it...)
I can't get a date, since I never shower or even leave my computer chair. Can I use strong crypto with Linux or GNU/Hurd to solve this condition? Do I need clustering software? How would I do this, and would I have to GPL my girlfriend? Looks like what all of us have been dying to know. Let's help him (and the rest of us out! UPDATE: Turns out that women are all repelled by this subject, so let's just fight over the GPL some more... m'kay?
Yeah, the 6000 will be cheap. Four times the fabbed parts, and an expensive external power supply...
Judging by the prelim results on the 5500, it looks like some driver work would put the 6k right up there with the GTS, though 'much faster' might not be attainable... the card/proc structure is neat, but I think the actual method leaves something to be desired performance-wise. Definitely not a linear scaling (though it *should* be)...
Sports sims (i.e. Football/Hockey/Baseball/Driving) (and flight sims are now amazingly better since the advent of the accelerated 3D chips. Most of the neat-o texture stuff doesn't mean much to me when I put a rocket up your ass, but for some reason, proper ice and outfield textures are a must 8^) These games have learned to suck up all of our CPU/GPU time just as well as the FPS games. Don't get me wrong, nothing pulls a machine to it's knees like a 30MB texture in a huge multiplayer UT/Q-III game, but there's a lot of other games that benefit from the FPS/3D craze as well...
Heck, in 1995 my Matrox Millenium came with NASCAR racing, and it was the neatest, faster thing I'd seen yet... until the next version, and then the Voodoo cards... and then the TNTs... and then the next Voodoo/TNT round.... etc...
Good, Fast, expensive. Who cares, as long as I can pick out the faces of the player through their hockey helmets in real time 8^)
so.... I gotta ask: will you continue this one same inane post rampage forever, or just until you get bored. I note that you have posted nothing but "it's just different" stuff lately.
Come on, you need to be at least as creative as the OOG/grits trolls 8^)
I'm all for open-source, but heck, as long as they provide a driver, and it ends up being as good as the driver for another OS, then we should applaud them. Continue to coax them for open source drivers, yes, but don't write them off just yet. There's a lot of the driver that you would really need a good hardware spec for, and if they want to keep that under wraps, there's not a whole lot of performance gain that open source can easily provide. People will just say "well, I don't have the spec, so I won't work on this", and it won't be any better than before. You might be able to get some more stability out of it (definitely a good thing), but you still have to respect the steps they are taking now. Sooner or later they will come around, but if you don't support them, they won't support you.
I don't entirely agree with your DRI comment, either... but that's ok 8^)
>Right now the money for a supreme video card is arguably better spent on tons o' RAM and an ATA-66 drive/controller combo for faster performance in everyday apps.
Or, even better... U2W SCSI 8^) Still a sight better than ATA/66 for throughput and CPU usage. The ATA bus structure just isn't as flexible (2 drives/channel?!). Plus, easily attachable external devices.
It does cost more, but the performance boost is well worth it.
Ah... that would explain it. I've got an old Supermicro P55STE (up to 200 MHz) that has a non-functioning I/O chip (no parallel, serial, or PS/2 ports)... works great for a server, the keyboard still goes.
Actually, given the number of posts on this story that you have, and the similar vein they are in, how are we to know that *you* are not just some AI out there...
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Ummm... oops - just caught my typo... that 55th percentile is way off... please ignore that... Fingers are spouting falsehoods again...
MYTH: Most large scale enterprise server drive storage is larger-sized diskx.
.60) < COST_OF_n_LINUX_LICENSES? (leaving out the support calls, we'll assume they are the same). Some is still more than none. That being said, almost every OS has its place.
Fact: Most large DB systems prefer to have collections of the *smallest* capacity points (was 4GB, now usually 9GB), so that they can gain more from performace. More arms, less spindle time, more throughput. Large scale RAID arrays are far more likely to get a terabyte by RAIDing ~130 9GB drives than by RAIDing 30 40GB drives.
Single workstations (for MM) may have a large drive for storage, but that's not the server.
Ah, so if you deduct it, you get your (say 40%) of that cost back... so, you mean that (COST_OF_n_NT_LICENSES x
Bah!
Ok, a course may tell you how to guess on multiple choice questions. Yippee - yeah, some of them guarantee a 100 point gain (as long as you start out under a certain level). Not tough.
You *should* know a fair amount of english words by the time you are a junior in high school. TV, books, *class* - these things all help.
If you can't understand the questions or the math problems on the SAT, you just might not have the aptitude for a serious tech education. Remember that the minimum score for this is just around what... the 55th percentile. If you aren't smarter than half the people out there...
Ability to learn those concepts though a defined chunk of time (10/11 grade levels) *is* a measure of how smart/capable someone could be. Not the best, but still fairly accurate.
(note: I'm biased - a near perfect score will do that to you...)
I'll agree with manyof your points here...
/.rs will agree, most of your learning is on your own time. I went to an old, distinguished east coast tech school. Got one of those nifty Computer Engineering degrees. Learned a whole ton doing that. Got more out of my classes than a lot of others there, because I made a point of taking challenging courses. Got a lot out of college because I didn't lock myself up ot study all the time. Got a lot more learning done interacting with a lot of other people who shared common tech interests, and developed skills that way that further enhanced my formal education. Access to people and ideas is another big benefit of college (you can access ideas on the net, too, but it just isn't the same thing as talking one-on-one with an engineer who has been doing processor development for many years - you get a lot out of it.
;-)
Education is what you make of it. The quality of instruction often *can and will* be worse at some cheaper schools, but that isn't necessarily a money factor, and, as I think most
Smaller class sizes and non-lecture based learning also helps a lot with the student/faculty interaction problems you mentioned. There were several professors at my school that took the time to make sure they knew everyone by sight, even in the mid to large lectures. That really helps later on. It makes it easier to talk to them, and helps out when reccomendations come around
I've already posted some of my thoughts on the SATs... and most of your thoughts are right on target. I have concerns on requiring SATs for this program, but, hey... they *do* need to restrict is somewhat. Of course, there are many people who never took the SAT (maybe the ACT or some other test, or maybe it wasn't recent...). Do they maintain another path for these people to enter? Certainly there are a lot of qualified people who never had the opportunity to fill in lots of circles with a #2 pencil.
I don't think their score was all that remarkable, so it should be low enough to counteract some of the socioeconomic factors... my high school graduating class (~100 students, public school) *averaged* about what this required score was... this shouldn't be too limiting. I think the national average is ~1000 - not too tough.
If they took IQ scores instead, people would have the same gripes.
do *NOT* reflect whether or not someone does homework, driven, etc...
;-), but it's not telling at all for a lot of other things.
Speaking from personal experience (mine and my brother's) - we both scored well on the SAT verbal (760 and 800), but did either of us ever do a rough draft for our writing assignments? (nope) did we do things on time? (only when we felt like it) could we have gotten straight 'A's in English classes? (yes) did we? (no, we didn't care)
That score doesn't reveal any of that information (neither does the AP test for that matter...) - all it measures is your aptitude, not you accomplishments. Standardized testing is great for some things (like getting me into schools
>I think it has to do with sarcasm.
Yeah - that's what makes it funny
I laughed pretty hard when I glanced over it the first time - figured I should say something, and point it out 8^)
All of mine have at least one, so I make up for the others ;-)
Actually, the more broadband access we see, the more network cards make their way into home machines. Cable Modem -> ethernet... external DSL modem -> ethernet. More and more of these all the time.
Not most yet, but it'll get there eventually.
>The Intel boycott is still on.
Does that mean that I have to give up my 486/DX 66?
I suppose I could start running my Cyrix 200+ again (w/ 150MHz of FPU goodness).
Where's some info on the Intel CPU crypto stuff that is mentioned here? Is that on Willamette? Merced^H^H^H^H^H^HItanium?
or you could just use an old net card that gathering dust one day, and another one the next day... keep 'em all fooled ;-)
;-)
at one time, the Intel Ether Pro/10 cards were being sold in a bundle for ~$2 a card... grab a bunch of those, trade them around with friends... a grand old time.
you can also run through one of the anonymizer services out there, create some free accounts on free BBSs... if you just want to avoid simple traces...
You can avoid the HTTP-REFERRER stuff by just using wget for every page
Well, that's settable on some net cards, but not all of them... a lot of times that # is in a NVRAM/FLASH, but in some cards it *is* hard wired, and you can't change it. Sure, you can change what you think it is, but it might not have a whole lot of real effect. Also, if nothing else, the bits that tell who manufactured the card are usually not changable, so you can be 'restricted' from spoofing an SMC as a 3Com, etc...
and, in the unlikely case that someone on your local net *does* have the same HW address (small chance from a rnd, but it is there)... well, you're both in for a good time.
Hey Sig--
the irony here is astounding:
>Why does the NY Times require me to sign in? Or for that matter, dozens of other websites?
(.sig)>Stop anonymity now! (we can't blame if we don't have names)
I know it's two different subjects, but it *is* funny to see those both on the same post...
Nice one.
Also, the Ask /. that will get posted, but won't have any real responses (oh wait, Jon Katz wrote an article on it...)
I can't get a date, since I never shower or even leave my computer chair. Can I use strong crypto with Linux or GNU/Hurd to solve this condition? Do I need clustering software? How would I do this, and would I have to GPL my girlfriend? Looks like what all of us have been dying to know. Let's help him (and the rest of us out! UPDATE: Turns out that women are all repelled by this subject, so let's just fight over the GPL some more... m'kay?
That'd be posted in a second 8^)
Chalk another one up to Rob's perl code ;-)
Thanks for not getting too mad 8^)
>Jesus Christ, man! Lay off of the Psycho dude. He's not bad!
Didn't think I was all that harsh, actually... Just a polite suggestion. 8^)
... and where is 'Jesus Christ Man' these days? Haven't seen him around in a while...
Yeah, the 6000 will be cheap. Four times the fabbed parts, and an expensive external power supply...
Judging by the prelim results on the 5500, it looks like some driver work would put the 6k right up there with the GTS, though 'much faster' might not be attainable... the card/proc structure is neat, but I think the actual method leaves something to be desired performance-wise. Definitely not a linear scaling (though it *should* be)...
Sports sims (i.e. Football/Hockey/Baseball/Driving) (and flight sims are now amazingly better since the advent of the accelerated 3D chips. Most of the neat-o texture stuff doesn't mean much to me when I put a rocket up your ass, but for some reason, proper ice and outfield textures are a must 8^) These games have learned to suck up all of our CPU/GPU time just as well as the FPS games. Don't get me wrong, nothing pulls a machine to it's knees like a 30MB texture in a huge multiplayer UT/Q-III game, but there's a lot of other games that benefit from the FPS/3D craze as well...
Heck, in 1995 my Matrox Millenium came with NASCAR racing, and it was the neatest, faster thing I'd seen yet... until the next version, and then the Voodoo cards... and then the TNTs... and then the next Voodoo/TNT round.... etc...
Good, Fast, expensive. Who cares, as long as I can pick out the faces of the player through their hockey helmets in real time 8^)
so.... I gotta ask:
will you continue this one same inane post rampage forever, or just until you get bored. I note that you have posted nothing but "it's just different" stuff lately.
Come on, you need to be at least as creative as the OOG/grits trolls 8^)
mmmmmmm........ urban legends...
People also need to learn that just because you are at the end of an entry box line, you don't need a hard return.
/. or are you just daft? [/flame]
Your post is awful to read - the breaks aren't even consistent. Is this a UI problem with
I'm all for open-source, but heck, as long as they provide a driver, and it ends up being as good as the driver for another OS, then we should applaud them. Continue to coax them for open source drivers, yes, but don't write them off just yet. There's a lot of the driver that you would really need a good hardware spec for, and if they want to keep that under wraps, there's not a whole lot of performance gain that open source can easily provide. People will just say "well, I don't have the spec, so I won't work on this", and it won't be any better than before. You might be able to get some more stability out of it (definitely a good thing), but you still have to respect the steps they are taking now. Sooner or later they will come around, but if you don't support them, they won't support you.
I don't entirely agree with your DRI comment, either... but that's ok 8^)
>Right now the money for a supreme video card is arguably better spent on tons o' RAM and an ATA-66 drive/controller combo for faster performance in everyday apps.
Or, even better... U2W SCSI 8^) Still a sight better than ATA/66 for throughput and CPU usage. The ATA bus structure just isn't as flexible (2 drives/channel?!). Plus, easily attachable external devices.
It does cost more, but the performance boost is well worth it.
http://www.linuxgames.com/articles/nvidia_first_lo ok/
Ah... that would explain it. I've got an old Supermicro P55STE (up to 200 MHz) that has a non-functioning I/O chip (no parallel, serial, or PS/2 ports)... works great for a server, the keyboard still goes.
Actually, given the number of posts on this story that you have, and the similar vein they are in, how are we to know that *you* are not just some AI out there...
or maybe I am...
Clap
I'll throw in 10/20 points, too 8^)