"RAIDframe: check (FreeBSD killed it on 5.x)" Options for software RAID on FreeBSD 5 right now: vinum (old and crufty these days), gvinum (GEOM version of vinum), gmirror/gstripe (standalone GEOM RAID-1 and 0 modules), ataraid, ccd (old and crummy, seems mainly an experiment in GEOM porting). Was there a compelling reason to keep RAIDframe?
"Kernel assisted threading (Scheduler Activations) : check (works better than FreeBSD's KSE btw)" References? I'd be especially interested in a MySQL super-smack benchmark on a decent SMP system.
"FFSv2 : check" With snapshots? Obtained from: FreeBSD?:)
"Sendmail and postfix in base: check" Great, now I get two mail daemons I don't like instead of just one. At least syspkg makes them easy to avoid:)
"veirexec : check (FreeBSD doesn't have it)" whatexec?
"arrogant developers: nope" Just the users, huh?;)
Mine's like that. The scary thing is, it's spread across not one but two desktops.. when my second display's nearly full I know I can't really put it off much longer;)
NT4 made a pretty reasonable workstation; your productivity apps and such certainly ran on it (well, depends what you do). Games? Well, these would be machines at work; you'd probably appreciate it not crashing every five minutes more than being able to run Quake III (well..;)
Yup, that looks perfect, except.. I kinda don't wanna wait several months, and I've not been impressed with the nForce's *ix support so far (although nVidia's FreeBSD GFX driver support seems great; what's the point without stable SATA and network drivers?).
This is a work machine to mirror our dual Opteron servers, which are using these puppies. The Tyan S2885 looks like the closest board to that, and is one of the best I've seen for sale in the UK.
Anyone have motherboard recommendations? Here's a few I've seen:
MSI K8T MASTER2-FAR - cheap as chips, but no PCI-X. Anything else it's missing? Someone I spoke to mentioned it lacks NUMA support; is that going to be important when looking at dual core chips next year, or am I likely to want to buy a new motherboard by then anyway?
Gigabyte GA-7A8DW+ - Also relatively cheap. Has a couple of PCI-X and a PCI/33 slot; bit anemic in this area, but has 4x SATA (good for my planned RAID-10 array), and actually has the nifty AMD64 heatsink mounting mechanism.
But then there's this Tyan Thunder K8W and similarly priced/specced friends; where's the AMD64 mounting system gone again? The layout of the board suggests seperate memory interfaces per CPU, which I guess will be important for dual core, but by then I'll probably also want PCI-Express and such too, so..
Suggestions? Plan is to run FreeBSD on it. Oh, a case would be good too.. am I going to need something special for EATX? Anyone spotted a tower case with 4x hot-swap SATA bays?;)
Some encoders and some decoders support higher bitrates producing what's called "free-format" MP3's. Allofmp3 use this to store their lower end source material (i.e. the non-lossless-sourced music which makes up most of their catalogue) as 384kbps MP3's they can transcode to your chosen bitrate.
They should have spent the extra 60% on storage and just used FLAC (good choice for a transcoding service; it decodes very fast), but I guess it's difficult to make a good cost-benefit analysis of that when you can make significant savings on things 99% of users won't even understand, never mind care about:/
Magnatune and allofmp3 both support a lot more formats, including lossless and MP3's using known-good lame presets. 25c per track? I'd rather pay more for something good.. pretty please?
Sure I'd want them there. I might not be able to tell the difference, but that's beside the point; I have 40G of FLACs and converting them to a lossy format is time and effort I'd rather spend elsewhere. Well, it's not exactly effort in foobar2000, but I have better things to do than wait for hours worth of progress bars to fill up just so I can carry around some music.
If any of these players supported MusePack I might be happier; they encode much quicker despite being of generally higher quality and at similar bitrates. Very well suited to home/lossless away/lossy use IMO.
Opera only has ads if you don't pay for it or crack it. It's mostly taste after that (Opera's ad blocking capability is more extensive than you might think).
Me? I bought it at the student rate when it was still at version 5, paid for the upgrade to 7, and spent a bit extra for a FreeBSD license too. Well worth it.
This is, of course, not mutually exclusive with liking Firefox/Mozilla/etc. I just know which I prefer. Do you really want to know why? Hm, ask when it's not nearing 6am;)
It would be *less* of an issue. You're still going to get misinterpretations, ambiguities, disagreements, incomplete implementations, and good old fasioned bugs.
Does it, or any textmode browser, support CSS's tty mediatype yet? JS? Basic DOM? Do any of them even parse XHTML using a real XML parser, or are they still just dealing with it as slightly malformed HTML?
The performance draining waste of performance of a few extra instructions is probably cheaper than everyone eventually having to migrate their PB+ arrays to a new filesystem. Besides which, I dare say just because the filesystem is 128bit doesn't mean it's *using* all those bits; it might be in the spec, on the filesystem, etc, but I dare say the code can largely ignore the extra couple of words for now.
These could be skewed by differences in behavior; i.e. if Gecko users tend to be quite active but Opera users tend to use the site more modestly, Gecko will get a percentage boost in the number of hits we get from it, despite it not necessarily having *that* many more users. These count dynamic pages only, so it shouldn't be skewed too much by differing image/JS/CSS caching behavior.
They're accurate enough to have a vague idea, at least; that's really all we need.
It was the Linux/x86 version of Quake 3. Running that on a Mac seems impressive enough to me, and fancy that, you've got a native version to compare with.
AMD64's aren't just better at dissipating heat, they're better at not generating it in the first place; for most simple tasks, they'll stick to a low power mode that pumps out at most around 35W of heat (about the same as a 500MHz Celeron).
"If you crack the software, you pay the consequences. You're not owed anything at that point. As far as ethics is concerned, the app could do anything it wanted."
Your software *thinks* I pirated it, ergo it can do anything it wants and get away with it? Nuh uh. What happens when a pirate releases a keygenned key that happens to match mine? What happens when I hit a bug in the key verification code? What happens when a cosmic ray flips a bit in the relevent code and a FALSE turns into TRUE?
"id Software lost over a million dollars to record-breaking piracy the weekend before Doom 3's release"
Says who? Based on what evidence? I pirated it, saw that it sucked, and then did exactly what I would have done anyway; I didn't buy it. Did they lose $60 on me anyway? Maybe they would have if I'd cancelled my preorder based on that, but then I'm just using my increased knowledge of the products available to spend my money more wisely. Is that still a bad thing? Maybe for Id, but not for me, and I don't think for the market either; mindless shooters with crappy atmosphere and insanely repetetive gameplay should not a blockbuster make.
"As more and more people pirate the fuck out of everything, the system will eventually completely crumble, and nobody will be able to make a living off of any software."
Kindly provide statistics and sources that show more and more people are pirating software, and that as a result the amount of purchased software is going down. Or are you just assuming that's what's happening?
ECC/Registered memory, PCI-X, SCSI, RAID (I mean $600+ PCI-X cards here, not the crappy little software RAID you get with your on-board ATA controller), rackmountable cases with redundant PSU's and insanely loud 15kRPM Delta fans, SMP/NUMA, lots of IO-APIC's (= lots of IRQ's), serial console even in BIOS and POST, and generally higher quality components, with on-site warranties with response time guarantees and things like that.
No, it's a tree-based interpreter like the standard Ruby one AFAIK.
I'm still wondering why we're seeing a story on this so long after it's release, when the likes of Rails, one of the more exciting Ruby libraries in recent memory, gets completely ignored.
Of course, nobody here would really be interested in a powerful, easy way to develop web applications with practically zero configuration. It's just not *fun* without 800k of XML just to configure your ORM library:/
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About 0.1 (10TB = LOC).
"RAIDframe: check (FreeBSD killed it on 5.x)"
:)
:)
;)
Options for software RAID on FreeBSD 5 right now: vinum (old and crufty these days), gvinum (GEOM version of vinum), gmirror/gstripe (standalone GEOM RAID-1 and 0 modules), ataraid, ccd (old and crummy, seems mainly an experiment in GEOM porting). Was there a compelling reason to keep RAIDframe?
"Kernel assisted threading (Scheduler Activations) : check (works better than FreeBSD's KSE btw)"
References? I'd be especially interested in a MySQL super-smack benchmark on a decent SMP system.
"FFSv2 : check"
With snapshots? Obtained from: FreeBSD?
"Sendmail and postfix in base: check"
Great, now I get two mail daemons I don't like instead of just one. At least syspkg makes them easy to avoid
"veirexec : check (FreeBSD doesn't have it)"
whatexec?
"arrogant developers: nope"
Just the users, huh?
Why is my 'zone "cc" { type delegation-only; };' not doing it's job?
Mine's like that. The scary thing is, it's spread across not one but two desktops.. when my second display's nearly full I know I can't really put it off much longer ;)
I use pdaXrom on my Zaurus C860.
Can you mount WebDav interfaces as filesystems yet? SubVersion + Apache 2 + mod_dav_svn + mount_webdav :)
;)
/home with it at least.
UFS snapshots on some other systems can be helpful in this regard too.. maybe I should make rm create one every time it's run
Think case insensitivity is a mount option to at least some fs's, btw. Should be fairly safe mouting
You mean MacOS 9? :)
;)
NT4 made a pretty reasonable workstation; your productivity apps and such certainly ran on it (well, depends what you do). Games? Well, these would be machines at work; you'd probably appreciate it not crashing every five minutes more than being able to run Quake III (well..
I'll just snigger quietly at the server aspects.
No AGP or PCI-E; not much good for a workstation :)
Yup, that looks perfect, except.. I kinda don't wanna wait several months, and I've not been impressed with the nForce's *ix support so far (although nVidia's FreeBSD GFX driver support seems great; what's the point without stable SATA and network drivers?).
This is a work machine to mirror our dual Opteron servers, which are using these puppies. The Tyan S2885 looks like the closest board to that, and is one of the best I've seen for sale in the UK.
Anyone have motherboard recommendations? Here's a few I've seen:
;)
MSI K8T MASTER2-FAR - cheap as chips, but no PCI-X. Anything else it's missing? Someone I spoke to mentioned it lacks NUMA support; is that going to be important when looking at dual core chips next year, or am I likely to want to buy a new motherboard by then anyway?
Gigabyte GA-7A8DW+ - Also relatively cheap. Has a couple of PCI-X and a PCI/33 slot; bit anemic in this area, but has 4x SATA (good for my planned RAID-10 array), and actually has the nifty AMD64 heatsink mounting mechanism.
But then there's this Tyan Thunder K8W and similarly priced/specced friends; where's the AMD64 mounting system gone again? The layout of the board suggests seperate memory interfaces per CPU, which I guess will be important for dual core, but by then I'll probably also want PCI-Express and such too, so..
Suggestions? Plan is to run FreeBSD on it. Oh, a case would be good too.. am I going to need something special for EATX? Anyone spotted a tower case with 4x hot-swap SATA bays?
Some encoders and some decoders support higher bitrates producing what's called "free-format" MP3's. Allofmp3 use this to store their lower end source material (i.e. the non-lossless-sourced music which makes up most of their catalogue) as 384kbps MP3's they can transcode to your chosen bitrate.
:/
They should have spent the extra 60% on storage and just used FLAC (good choice for a transcoding service; it decodes very fast), but I guess it's difficult to make a good cost-benefit analysis of that when you can make significant savings on things 99% of users won't even understand, never mind care about
Magnatune and allofmp3 both support a lot more formats, including lossless and MP3's using known-good lame presets. 25c per track? I'd rather pay more for something good.. pretty please?
Sure I'd want them there. I might not be able to tell the difference, but that's beside the point; I have 40G of FLACs and converting them to a lossy format is time and effort I'd rather spend elsewhere. Well, it's not exactly effort in foobar2000, but I have better things to do than wait for hours worth of progress bars to fill up just so I can carry around some music.
If any of these players supported MusePack I might be happier; they encode much quicker despite being of generally higher quality and at similar bitrates. Very well suited to home/lossless away/lossy use IMO.
Opera only has ads if you don't pay for it or crack it. It's mostly taste after that (Opera's ad blocking capability is more extensive than you might think).
;)
Me? I bought it at the student rate when it was still at version 5, paid for the upgrade to 7, and spent a bit extra for a FreeBSD license too. Well worth it.
This is, of course, not mutually exclusive with liking Firefox/Mozilla/etc. I just know which I prefer. Do you really want to know why? Hm, ask when it's not nearing 6am
It would be *less* of an issue. You're still going to get misinterpretations, ambiguities, disagreements, incomplete implementations, and good old fasioned bugs.
Does it, or any textmode browser, support CSS's tty mediatype yet? JS? Basic DOM? Do any of them even parse XHTML using a real XML parser, or are they still just dealing with it as slightly malformed HTML?
The performance draining waste of performance of a few extra instructions is probably cheaper than everyone eventually having to migrate their PB+ arrays to a new filesystem. Besides which, I dare say just because the filesystem is 128bit doesn't mean it's *using* all those bits; it might be in the spec, on the filesystem, etc, but I dare say the code can largely ignore the extra couple of words for now.
They're accurate enough to have a vague idea, at least; that's really all we need.
You'd think it only remains slow inside the glass.. but hey, it's magic, anything can happen ;)
It was the Linux/x86 version of Quake 3. Running that on a Mac seems impressive enough to me, and fancy that, you've got a native version to compare with.
AMD64's aren't just better at dissipating heat, they're better at not generating it in the first place; for most simple tasks, they'll stick to a low power mode that pumps out at most around 35W of heat (about the same as a 500MHz Celeron).
AMD Cool'n'Quiet.
Your software *thinks* I pirated it, ergo it can do anything it wants and get away with it? Nuh uh. What happens when a pirate releases a keygenned key that happens to match mine? What happens when I hit a bug in the key verification code? What happens when a cosmic ray flips a bit in the relevent code and a FALSE turns into TRUE?
Says who? Based on what evidence? I pirated it, saw that it sucked, and then did exactly what I would have done anyway; I didn't buy it. Did they lose $60 on me anyway? Maybe they would have if I'd cancelled my preorder based on that, but then I'm just using my increased knowledge of the products available to spend my money more wisely. Is that still a bad thing? Maybe for Id, but not for me, and I don't think for the market either; mindless shooters with crappy atmosphere and insanely repetetive gameplay should not a blockbuster make.
Kindly provide statistics and sources that show more and more people are pirating software, and that as a result the amount of purchased software is going down. Or are you just assuming that's what's happening?
ECC/Registered memory, PCI-X, SCSI, RAID (I mean $600+ PCI-X cards here, not the crappy little software RAID you get with your on-board ATA controller), rackmountable cases with redundant PSU's and insanely loud 15kRPM Delta fans, SMP/NUMA, lots of IO-APIC's (= lots of IRQ's), serial console even in BIOS and POST, and generally higher quality components, with on-site warranties with response time guarantees and things like that.
That answer your question?
No, it's a tree-based interpreter like the standard Ruby one AFAIK.
:/
I'm still wondering why we're seeing a story on this so long after it's release, when the likes of Rails, one of the more exciting Ruby libraries in recent memory, gets completely ignored.
Of course, nobody here would really be interested in a powerful, easy way to develop web applications with practically zero configuration. It's just not *fun* without 800k of XML just to configure your ORM library