bah - maybe I should read all the way to the end of the sentence here and there - consider me properly reprimanded for the inability to read the bold text above.
>Server hacks like the 66-MHz PCI bus speed and 64-bit-wide PCI are neither practical nor sustainable.
An interesting statement - 64/66 isn't that much of a hack - and PCI-X is 64b, up to 133Mhz. Some may argue that it is a hack, but it is certainly quite a welcome change from 32/33. With a single dual-port GigE card or a dual-channel U320 RAID adapter, the bandwidth is a definite win, and rather practical these last few years prior to the advent of any other solution (PCI-Express).
64/66 seems rather practical, given the number of I/O cards made for it and used by some rather relavent companies (IBM, Sun, HP, Intel). PCI-X follow-ons to these and newer
IB was more of a chassis-chassis connect rather than a backplane connect. It claims to be everything to everyone (hence the reason that it is rather difficult to implement properly), but it's biggest strength is in more of a SAN situation or with blades rather than a WAN or backplane for basic peripheral interconnect.
Right - real server class and enterprise class hardware has been beyond PCI for some time now. PCI 64/66 for many years, PCI-X for a few years now has been the norm. It's hard to use a gigabit ethernet card (or a dual-port gigE) without some serious bandwidth - and shared 32/33 PCI just isn't the thing. PCI-X surely isn't the end-all of I/O busses (not even PCI-X DDR), but it is a pretty darn nice improvement over PCI 2.2.
It's all the same (roughly the same order of magnitude). The multiple expressions on a line shouldn't be a problem, and I suppose you could eliminate comments with a first pass...
hmmm, maybe a run through the preprocessor first, since macros and other #defines could be used multiple times and only counted once... but it doesn't matter too much, really. That's a fair amount of code.
Like this? NEW YORK, June 16 (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - News) on Monday said that the SCO Group (NasdaqSC:SCOX - News), which is suing IBM over intellectual property rights, has no right to revoke its license to its version of the Unix operating system, called AIX.
ADVERTISEMENT Earlier on Monday, SCO said that it would revoke IBM's right to use or distribute its AIX software, saying that IBM had violated its agreement by adapting some parts of the AIX operating system to Linux, the free version of Unix.
"There's absolutely nothing new in this press release. SCO continues to make its claims. As we have said all along our license is irrevocable, perpetual and cannot be terminated," IBM spokeswoman Trink Guarino said, reading from a prepared statement.
A farad isn't impossibly huge by any stretch (and neither is a Henry), though pico-, micro-, and milli- are far more common on Farads and Henrys than kilo- and mega- (but doesn't that seem like fun!). Currently, kiloFarad capacitors can be found on electric cars and the like (surge/load balancing).
I would think the ESR is a larger, less common unit as well - though with the ESR and BGE being close to an order of magintude of each other, it would seem reasonable to choose whichever had the more completely documented absolute value.
Well, here at work in Rochester, MN, we have quite a few RS6k/pSeries machines running AIX - of course, this is an IBM development/manufacturing site...
My Thinkpad has both the trackpoint and the pad (disabled by me). If the pad wasn't right where my thumbs go, causing all sorts of bad accidental things, it might be more useful, and the middle button of the trackpoint allows that to act as a scroll stick anywhere on the screen.
Which reminds me - I have an IBM mouse with the Thinkpad that I use at the replicator strip and it has three buttons in the standard arrangement, and a scroll nub - countoured and larger than the trackpoint so it is useful and not in the way, and it doesn't try to act like the third button itself (like the wheels which I, to this day, cannot stand). A very nice comprimise, allowing full function without any ergonomic change from the "old-style" three button mice.
That being said, I like my Logitec Trackman Marble (no wheel) better than the others.
The Wheel of Time turns and Books come and go, leaving plot lines that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Book that gave it birth returns again as the next book in the series. In the First, Second, Third, Fourth....Ninth, and Tenth Books, an Book of Prophecy, when the World and Time themselves hang in the balance, a wind rises in the mountains of mist, but none of the characters take any action...
In the series, there is neither a beginning nor an end, but each book *is* a beginning, since it rehashes the previous books in the series in the first 500 pages.
If we are all lucky, it will end like Shakespeare - everyone ends up in love or hate, and they all die.
>Now if you want to talk about books that are a lot longer than needed you should look no further than Wheel of Time for fantasy
Isn't that the truth - I'm on (another) full re-read of the series due to the 10th book coming out (oh, will it ever end!?) and, though I am fairly well hooked on them, the series gets a tad long-winded mostly starting with A Crown of Swords. There is a lot of good background information, slightly obscured references, and new character introductions, but Jordan tends to prattle on a little longer than he needs to on some subjects. Aside from LoTR, the WoT series is the only fantasy series I've ever really gotten into, and it is somewhat addictive.
The books surrounding LoTR make it quite a bit more enveloping than most others. A lot of fun, if you can get past some of the 'songs' and 'poetry'...
>you should know that I was just awarded a patent for any method of computing how many years has past since the start of the American Revolution... Thats right I've patented: (current year) -1776.
Ah yes, Method and Apparatus for Calculation and Derivation of Temporal Divergency with a Fixed Origination.
Of course, I can use your patent all I want without licensing it, as long as I don't attempt to profit from it.
Ah, but you can use GoToMyPC through a firewall, since the desktop and the remote connection both connect through a central machine, so one or both machines can be firewalled. With VNC, if you don't control the firewall, you can't access your machine. Of course, the first thing that came to my mind was that it was just another way to circumvent security through a relatively untrusted third party...
>"People who wear clothes also bought clean underwear from Target" lines on every search return. (Or is it, ulp, just mine??)
No, I searched for a car repair manual, and that was at the bottom, along with the ladybug rainboots. Both of those showed up under something else entirely unrelated... I hope they still sell Spiderman underoos!
Don't forget the zSeries (mainframes). Plenty of horses under those hoods. The Power4 and Power4+ chips are rather quick, and extremely reliable (due to the needs of server-class hardware).
A 1-way Power4+ 1.7GHz comes in with a Spec Int of 1113, FP at 1699 (this all with 128MB of L3 cache).
Yes, I work for IBM, but not the proc design area.
But the mail system sitting behind NAT may have no way of knowing what that is... many of the reverse names are foo-12.xx.yy.zz.nycap.rr.com or something along those lines. If the NAT box gets assigned a new IP, the name changes and the mailer may have no way of getting that information.
The quantities in question are usually things: How much air (volume), often within a time period (exchanges per hour for a space of X cubic feet), and percent filtration or capture, which can be associated with a particle size or range (i.e. 97% of all parrticles > 5 mucron). The total dust capacity of a filter element before it needs replacing/cleaning isn't usually given, and even settled dust is a three dimensional quantity...
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bah - maybe I should read all the way to the end of the sentence here and there - consider me properly reprimanded for the inability to read the bold text above.
>Server hacks like the 66-MHz PCI bus speed and 64-bit-wide PCI are neither practical nor sustainable.
An interesting statement - 64/66 isn't that much of a hack - and PCI-X is 64b, up to 133Mhz. Some may argue that it is a hack, but it is certainly quite a welcome change from 32/33. With a single dual-port GigE card or a dual-channel U320 RAID adapter, the bandwidth is a definite win, and rather practical these last few years prior to the advent of any other solution (PCI-Express).
64/66 seems rather practical, given the number of I/O cards made for it and used by some rather relavent companies (IBM, Sun, HP, Intel). PCI-X follow-ons to these and newer
IB was more of a chassis-chassis connect rather than a backplane connect. It claims to be everything to everyone (hence the reason that it is rather difficult to implement properly), but it's biggest strength is in more of a SAN situation or with blades rather than a WAN or backplane for basic peripheral interconnect.
And here I thought the Inquirer was more concerned with Bat Boy, Aliens and the Boy With Tree Growing Out of His Stomach!!! than PCI/AGP. Go figure.
Right - real server class and enterprise class hardware has been beyond PCI for some time now. PCI 64/66 for many years, PCI-X for a few years now has been the norm. It's hard to use a gigabit ethernet card (or a dual-port gigE) without some serious bandwidth - and shared 32/33 PCI just isn't the thing. PCI-X surely isn't the end-all of I/O busses (not even PCI-X DDR), but it is a pretty darn nice improvement over PCI 2.2.
It's all the same (roughly the same order of magnitude). The multiple expressions on a line shouldn't be a problem, and I suppose you could eliminate comments with a first pass...
hmmm, maybe a run through the preprocessor first, since macros and other #defines could be used multiple times and only counted once... but it doesn't matter too much, really. That's a fair amount of code.
When counting lines of code, you usually count semi-colons as LOCs - in your count, whitespace lines are included.
Like this?
NEW YORK, June 16 (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - News) on Monday said that the SCO Group (NasdaqSC:SCOX - News), which is suing IBM over intellectual property rights, has no right to revoke its license to its version of the Unix operating system, called AIX.
ADVERTISEMENT
Earlier on Monday, SCO said that it would revoke IBM's right to use or distribute its AIX software, saying that IBM had violated its agreement by adapting some parts of the AIX operating system to Linux, the free version of Unix.
"There's absolutely nothing new in this press release. SCO continues to make its claims. As we have said all along our license is irrevocable, perpetual and cannot be terminated," IBM spokeswoman Trink Guarino said, reading from a prepared statement.
A farad isn't impossibly huge by any stretch (and neither is a Henry), though pico-, micro-, and milli- are far more common on Farads and Henrys than kilo- and mega- (but doesn't that seem like fun!). Currently, kiloFarad capacitors can be found on electric cars and the like (surge/load balancing).
I would think the ESR is a larger, less common unit as well - though with the ESR and BGE being close to an order of magintude of each other, it would seem reasonable to choose whichever had the more completely documented absolute value.
Well, here at work in Rochester, MN, we have quite a few RS6k/pSeries machines running AIX - of course, this is an IBM development/manufacturing site...
Come on now, I went to RPI to be an ingeneer, and now I are won!
> Too much sugar is bad for you.
Too much water is bad for you, too - they call it 'drowning'.
My Thinkpad has both the trackpoint and the pad (disabled by me). If the pad wasn't right where my thumbs go, causing all sorts of bad accidental things, it might be more useful, and the middle button of the trackpoint allows that to act as a scroll stick anywhere on the screen.
Which reminds me - I have an IBM mouse with the Thinkpad that I use at the replicator strip and it has three buttons in the standard arrangement, and a scroll nub - countoured and larger than the trackpoint so it is useful and not in the way, and it doesn't try to act like the third button itself (like the wheels which I, to this day, cannot stand). A very nice comprimise, allowing full function without any ergonomic change from the "old-style" three button mice.
That being said, I like my Logitec Trackman Marble (no wheel) better than the others.
He can't finish the series...
The Wheel of Time turns and Books come and go, leaving plot lines that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Book that gave it birth returns again as the next book in the series. In the First, Second, Third, Fourth....Ninth, and Tenth Books, an Book of Prophecy, when the World and Time themselves hang in the balance, a wind rises in the mountains of mist, but none of the characters take any action...
In the series, there is neither a beginning nor an end, but each book *is* a beginning, since it rehashes the previous books in the series in the first 500 pages.
If we are all lucky, it will end like Shakespeare - everyone ends up in love or hate, and they all die.
>Now if you want to talk about books that are a lot longer than needed you should look no further than Wheel of Time for fantasy
Isn't that the truth - I'm on (another) full re-read of the series due to the 10th book coming out (oh, will it ever end!?) and, though I am fairly well hooked on them, the series gets a tad long-winded mostly starting with A Crown of Swords. There is a lot of good background information, slightly obscured references, and new character introductions, but Jordan tends to prattle on a little longer than he needs to on some subjects. Aside from LoTR, the WoT series is the only fantasy series I've ever really gotten into, and it is somewhat addictive.
The books surrounding LoTR make it quite a bit more enveloping than most others. A lot of fun, if you can get past some of the 'songs' and 'poetry'...
Oh..... so that's what they look like with the covers *on*...
One Bourbon, one Scotch, one Beer. = Even Better
>you should know that I was just awarded
a patent for any method of computing how many years has past since the start of
the American Revolution... Thats right I've patented: (current year) -1776.
Ah yes, Method and Apparatus for Calculation and Derivation of Temporal Divergency with a Fixed Origination.
Of course, I can use your patent all I want without licensing it, as long as I don't attempt to profit from it.
Ah, but you can use GoToMyPC through a firewall, since the desktop and the remote connection both connect through a central machine, so one or both machines can be firewalled. With VNC, if you don't control the firewall, you can't access your machine. Of course, the first thing that came to my mind was that it was just another way to circumvent security through a relatively untrusted third party...
>"People who wear clothes also bought clean underwear from Target" lines on every search return. (Or is it, ulp, just mine??)
No, I searched for a car repair manual, and that was at the bottom, along with the ladybug rainboots. Both of those showed up under something else entirely unrelated... I hope they still sell Spiderman underoos!
Not all that obscure... really...
There is a nice page with some apps at http://www.perelin.de/stellarcom/palmstuff/.
Sean Connery *was* the first James Bond ion Dr. No.
Don't forget the zSeries (mainframes). Plenty of horses under those hoods. The Power4 and Power4+ chips are rather quick, and extremely reliable (due to the needs of server-class hardware).
A 1-way Power4+ 1.7GHz comes in with a Spec Int of 1113, FP at 1699 (this all with 128MB of L3 cache).
Yes, I work for IBM, but not the proc design area.
But the mail system sitting behind NAT may have no way of knowing what that is... many of the reverse names are foo-12.xx.yy.zz.nycap.rr.com or something along those lines. If the NAT box gets assigned a new IP, the name changes and the mailer may have no way of getting that information.
The quantities in question are usually things: How much air (volume), often within a time period (exchanges per hour for a space of X cubic feet), and percent filtration or capture, which can be associated with a particle size or range (i.e. 97% of all parrticles > 5 mucron). The total dust capacity of a filter element before it needs replacing/cleaning isn't usually given, and even settled dust is a three dimensional quantity...