The new nVidia cards sense this and clock themselves down.
I think 3dfx had the right idea when they just let you plug it into the wall, these new beasts cost $400 and then want a $80 power supply to run right.
Ehhh, I think you're going to have the same catch 22 with respect to multiple video cards with PCI Express. The only difference will be now you'll have only one 16x PCI Express slot with many 1x slots instead of one AGP slot and many regular PCI slots.
Either way it's the same deal. Really most every new video card supports two monitors now, and Matrox has had quads for years. If you absolutely need high end CAD grade 3D on more than 2 monitors from the same CPU it's probably time to be moving out of x86 hardware anyway.
FVWM is as pretty as you make it, can draw in arbitrary widget sets (not sure about gtk2, but it would be trivial to write a plugin), and is GNOME compatible.
Not to troll, but could someone who uses Metacity explain to me exactly what it can do that FVWM 2.4 can't? From the description in the article it just seems to be the same but less powerful and less mature.
Ahhhhhh, Linux on XBox. That would most certainly be the kiss of death for that platform. It would make me quite happy to know that Bill is losing $100 every time me or one of my 10^6 closest Linux pals gets a new PC/DVD player/PVR. And that's not even counting the people that would use it as a PC after someone figures out how to make it boot regular Windows.
They paid people to make that stuff, they want you to pay them to use it (or at least look at ads in winamp's case).
The only reason Microsoft makes it a point to not annoy you is because they have lots of money to lose and are trying to create a monopoly with all of their respective alternatives. When all the competition is dead, they'll just start charging for all of it and likely make you lease it instead of buy as well.
I believe that IBM's Power4 is still faster than anything else for serial execution by quite a large margin.
Also, WRT address space, I would think memory access on these things is quite heavily abstracted for any userland tasks. When you reach outside of any one machine on the cluster, conventional memory access methods probably go out the window anyway. The ASCI Red was just a bunch of P6's soldered together after all, and it doesn't seem to be having too many problems.
MS needs to get rid of the everpresent thought of gamers that since Microsoft makes XBox, and Windows, games that come out for XBox come out for Windows. I think in the back of most people's minds, they already think this, and so "exclusives" don't feel like exclusives. MS needs to make REAL exclusives.
Ah, but this is the reason why X-box was a bad idea to begin with. There will never be any exclusives for the platform as long as X-box is just a standard PC that runs Windows. Any game developer that goes through the trouble of making a Windows game and then only selling it on X-box is invariably either being paid off by Microsoft or is a subsidiary(Bungie with Halo for instance).
Microsoft has a lot of money, but even they can't make a business model out of buying every game developer on earth.
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Or you could just parse the listings from tvguide.com, they already have the cable listing thing down quite nicely.
There are already scripts floating around on Freshmeat that do it, and given their readership is obscenely large, I doubt they would notice the traffic.
Of course it's only good for two weeks, but with proper scripting, two week's advance knowledge is probably all most people will need.
Heh, you forgot reboot. It probably doesn't even need to be done in NT derivatives, but Windows installers seem to have some religious conviction about it. Linux always kinda blew my mind the way you could change out major subsystems with insmod and rmmod.
But getting back to the topic, their Open Source policy should be letting me see just WTF they do to justify making people reboot to say...patch a word processor.
NUMA is just a strategy used for making computers that are too large for normal SMP techniques. I read a few good papers on sgi.com a couple of years ago that explained it in detail, and the NUMA link in the article had a quick definition. NUMA systems run one incarnation of one OS throughout the whole cluster, and usually imply some kind of crazy-ass bandwidth running between different machines. I don't think you could actually create a NUMA cluster of seperate quad Xeons boxes, and it would probably be ungodly slow if you tried.
There probably isn't any difference for kernel compiles between the two, but NUMA clusters don't require any reworking of normal multithreaded programs to utilize the cluster and can be commanded as one coherent entity (make -j 32, wheee).
A judge ruled that an ISP doesn't have to use its own resources to deliver advertisements (for free) for someone else to whom they have no obligation of any kind?
US companies have no such problem that I am aware of, and it greatly disturbs me that a judge in any country should have to state this explicitly.
Sigh. Where the fuck did that come from? All I'm saying is that I didn't pay for a time sharing system cause I have no good damn use for one. I want a computer for me, not anyone else, just me. That's what I want when I buy a "personal" computer. So when it says "you will need to enter the administrator password" I'm gunna have to ask "what fucking administrator?! This is _my_ computer. I'm not some corporate drone, I'm sitting in my own house already."
Did it ever occur to you that your computer asks for a password to do certain things because its designers thought that there are some things that you might not want to be able to change without thinking? If you accidentally type 'rm -rf *' in the wrong place, or if some random app tries to walk all over your system files, it might be a nice thing for the OS to ask you if this is OK with you before anything evil happens. If you are really averse to this, as another post pointed out, it is trivial to make yourself root at all times.
Just like when the computer says to me "access denied". What? You are denying me access? Who's computer do you think you are?
This is just a case of improper semantics for a single user environment, it is still your computer, you can figure that out right?
If you're gunna make stupid design decisions (like trying to palm off a time sharing operating system as a desktop operating system)
Features evolved on time sharing systems are often good for desktop use. If you could show me a modern OS that isn't based on one I should be very interested.
Some random government (maybe even your own) could deem the potential loss of human life more valuable than upholding their own IP laws. Brazil has already done this by disregarding patents held by US companies to reproduce cheap medication for AIDS patients.
If I were determined to make money off of this I wouln't publish either. Organs are rather complex and probably signifigantly more difficult to reverse engineer than anything found in pill form, so releasing any information as to how the actual process works is a potentially serious loss of money.
Slashdot angers me. Long story short, it's a bad solution for a problem already being fixed properly.
For those who don't care to read the discussion, Linus essentially feels that this is a bad idea because no general patch manager is going to scale better than he does or get burnt out less quickly than Alan Cox.
He then goes on to say that the solution to the problem of the scalability of one maintainer is to partition the different subsystems of the kernel to such an extent that there would be precious few patches that actually require a knowledge of the entire kernel source.
Given that the P4 costs more than twice as much as the Athlon ($548 versus $263 on PriceWatch), why would they bother with only DDR? Just by including the P4 they've pretty much thrown price/performance ratios out the window anyway.
A better question to ask of the P4 might be whether it could beat the Athlon with any kind of memory, and if so, by how much?
Nah, neither is holy. The only difference is that Microsoft's management is dangerously meglomaniacle. They often are in instances where they crush their competition just for the sake of an insignifigant amount of security.
For example, they probably would have the same browser market share they do now had they not integrated IE into the OS and done all that stupid OEM stuff that they did, but Bill has a god complex to feed.
AOL/TW does seem to be the more mentally sound of the two, but you wouldn't see me crying if the top execs of either were to find themselves in front of a firing squad.
There are two differences between XPs and MPs: the price and the guarantee that MP will do SMP. As far as the latter one goes, I've never heard of an XP that won't run in an SMP configuration
I have. Do a search on an LKML archive, there are multiple instances of these configs breaking. Kernel developers have stated on numerous occaisions that they won't support such things either.
I assume a lof of that capability is still around under the hood.
No, it isn't. NT never really ran well on anything besides x86 anyway, and just look at the time they've been having with IA64. They even had to limit WinCE, which was supposed to be small and ultra-portable by design to one architecture.
The problem I have with this story is that Microsoft really isn't a competent design house, they have never been able to maintain the portability of any large project (without major rewrites like in their mac software). That and they would have to come up with a hardware platform that can seriously compete with AMD and Intel which also isn't PowerPC. How many of those are there?
If this were Sun, Apple, or some other real engineering firm with a penchant for pulling wild crap I might believe it, but given Microsoft's past incompetence in this area I can't say I find it too likely.
Getting these to work together would be a worthwhile proposition.
No.
GNUStep is an API level reimplementation of another OS. You could run other environments in a different session alongside it or you could just run the apps alongside eachother without the same level of integration, but most of the details of how GNUStep will behave have long since been decided.
I suppose it could be done if both the KDE and Gnome people could be convinced to make large changes to certain parts of their respective environments so that they act exactly like NeXT did (which would have all kinds of neat implications), but how likely would that be?
Your statement also could have started with: "Standardizing the Internet" or "Standardizing PC hardware" or "Standardizing MPEG4 Compression" or a crapload of other things.
Standards are not intended to completely remove compatability issues between platforms. All they do is ensure that most things will work most of the time.
What you fail to grasp here is that UNIX (or any of the above things) is in practice nothing more than a standard, if it is not defined then its existance becomes something of a moot point.
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The new nVidia cards sense this and clock themselves down.
I think 3dfx had the right idea when they just let you plug it into the wall, these new beasts cost $400 and then want a $80 power supply to run right.
Ehhh, I think you're going to have the same catch 22 with respect to multiple video cards with PCI Express. The only difference will be now you'll have only one 16x PCI Express slot with many 1x slots instead of one AGP slot and many regular PCI slots.
Either way it's the same deal. Really most every new video card supports two monitors now, and Matrox has had quads for years. If you absolutely need high end CAD grade 3D on more than 2 monitors from the same CPU it's probably time to be moving out of x86 hardware anyway.
FVWM is as pretty as you make it, can draw in arbitrary widget sets (not sure about gtk2, but it would be trivial to write a plugin), and is GNOME compatible.
My argument still stands.
Most definitely agreed.
Not to troll, but could someone who uses Metacity explain to me exactly what it can do that FVWM 2.4 can't? From the description in the article it just seems to be the same but less powerful and less mature.
Ahhhhhh, Linux on XBox. That would most certainly be the kiss of death for that platform. It would make me quite happy to know that Bill is losing $100 every time me or one of my 10^6 closest Linux pals gets a new PC/DVD player/PVR. And that's not even counting the people that would use it as a PC after someone figures out how to make it boot regular Windows.
They paid people to make that stuff, they want you to pay them to use it (or at least look at ads in winamp's case).
The only reason Microsoft makes it a point to not annoy you is because they have lots of money to lose and are trying to create a monopoly with all of their respective alternatives. When all the competition is dead, they'll just start charging for all of it and likely make you lease it instead of buy as well.
So stop yer bitchin.
Samba means a lot of money to a lot of big names, unless they do something royally stupid, they are largely unassailable.
If Microsoft could really stop them so easily, they would have done it long before Unix made a dent in the Windows file serving market.
Does nobody read the article? (brilliant troll btw)
/. is by far the most effective Linux FUD spreading device known to man. "Linux is not piracy" anyone?
The Samba team specifically states that Microsoft has changed nothing in reliscensing their documentation and that their work continues unaffected.
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I believe that IBM's Power4 is still faster than anything else for serial execution by quite a large margin.
Also, WRT address space, I would think memory access on these things is quite heavily abstracted for any userland tasks. When you reach outside of any one machine on the cluster, conventional memory access methods probably go out the window anyway. The ASCI Red was just a bunch of P6's soldered together after all, and it doesn't seem to be having too many problems.
I beleive the poster means not abusing their monopoly. You can't be prosecuted for just having one.
Ah, but this is the reason why X-box was a bad idea to begin with. There will never be any exclusives for the platform as long as X-box is just a standard PC that runs Windows. Any game developer that goes through the trouble of making a Windows game and then only selling it on X-box is invariably either being paid off by Microsoft or is a subsidiary(Bungie with Halo for instance).
Microsoft has a lot of money, but even they can't make a business model out of buying every game developer on earth.
Or you could just parse the listings from tvguide.com, they already have the cable listing thing down quite nicely.
There are already scripts floating around on Freshmeat that do it, and given their readership is obscenely large, I doubt they would notice the traffic.
Of course it's only good for two weeks, but with proper scripting, two week's advance knowledge is probably all most people will need.
Heh, you forgot reboot. It probably doesn't even need to be done in NT derivatives, but Windows installers seem to have some religious conviction about it. Linux always kinda blew my mind the way you could change out major subsystems with insmod and rmmod.
But getting back to the topic, their Open Source policy should be letting me see just WTF they do to justify making people reboot to say...patch a word processor.
NUMA is rather different than Beowulf.
NUMA is just a strategy used for making computers that are too large for normal SMP techniques. I read a few good papers on sgi.com a couple of years ago that explained it in detail, and the NUMA link in the article had a quick definition. NUMA systems run one incarnation of one OS throughout the whole cluster, and usually imply some kind of crazy-ass bandwidth running between different machines. I don't think you could actually create a NUMA cluster of seperate quad Xeons boxes, and it would probably be ungodly slow if you tried.
There probably isn't any difference for kernel compiles between the two, but NUMA clusters don't require any reworking of normal multithreaded programs to utilize the cluster and can be commanded as one coherent entity (make -j 32, wheee).
Mayhaps I misunderstood this?
A judge ruled that an ISP doesn't have to use its own resources to deliver advertisements (for free) for someone else to whom they have no obligation of any kind?
US companies have no such problem that I am aware of, and it greatly disturbs me that a judge in any country should have to state this explicitly.
Sigh. Where the fuck did that come from? All I'm saying is that I didn't pay for a time sharing system cause I have no good damn use for one. I want a computer for me, not anyone else, just me. That's what I want when I buy a "personal" computer. So when it says "you will need to enter the administrator password" I'm gunna have to ask "what fucking administrator?! This is _my_ computer. I'm not some corporate drone, I'm sitting in my own house already."
Did it ever occur to you that your computer asks for a password to do certain things because its designers thought that there are some things that you might not want to be able to change without thinking? If you accidentally type 'rm -rf *' in the wrong place, or if some random app tries to walk all over your system files, it might be a nice thing for the OS to ask you if this is OK with you before anything evil happens. If you are really averse to this, as another post pointed out, it is trivial to make yourself root at all times.
Just like when the computer says to me "access denied". What? You are denying me access? Who's computer do you think you are?
This is just a case of improper semantics for a single user environment, it is still your computer, you can figure that out right?
If you're gunna make stupid design decisions (like trying to palm off a time sharing operating system as a desktop operating system)
Features evolved on time sharing systems are often good for desktop use. If you could show me a modern OS that isn't based on one I should be very interested.
If I were determined to make money off of this I wouln't publish either. Organs are rather complex and probably signifigantly more difficult to reverse engineer than anything found in pill form, so releasing any information as to how the actual process works is a potentially serious loss of money.
From a company that is first and only marketing, should we not expect this?
Slashdot angers me. Long story short, it's a bad solution for a problem already being fixed properly.
For those who don't care to read the discussion, Linus essentially feels that this is a bad idea because no general patch manager is going to scale better than he does or get burnt out less quickly than Alan Cox.
He then goes on to say that the solution to the problem of the scalability of one maintainer is to partition the different subsystems of the kernel to such an extent that there would be precious few patches that actually require a knowledge of the entire kernel source.
Given that the P4 costs more than twice as much as the Athlon ($548 versus $263 on PriceWatch), why would they bother with only DDR? Just by including the P4 they've pretty much thrown price/performance ratios out the window anyway.
A better question to ask of the P4 might be whether it could beat the Athlon with any kind of memory, and if so, by how much?
For example, they probably would have the same browser market share they do now had they not integrated IE into the OS and done all that stupid OEM stuff that they did, but Bill has a god complex to feed.
AOL/TW does seem to be the more mentally sound of the two, but you wouldn't see me crying if the top execs of either were to find themselves in front of a firing squad.
I have. Do a search on an LKML archive, there are multiple instances of these configs breaking. Kernel developers have stated on numerous occaisions that they won't support such things either.
No, it isn't. NT never really ran well on anything besides x86 anyway, and just look at the time they've been having with IA64. They even had to limit WinCE, which was supposed to be small and ultra-portable by design to one architecture.
The problem I have with this story is that Microsoft really isn't a competent design house, they have never been able to maintain the portability of any large project (without major rewrites like in their mac software). That and they would have to come up with a hardware platform that can seriously compete with AMD and Intel which also isn't PowerPC. How many of those are there?
If this were Sun, Apple, or some other real engineering firm with a penchant for pulling wild crap I might believe it, but given Microsoft's past incompetence in this area I can't say I find it too likely.
No.
GNUStep is an API level reimplementation of another OS. You could run other environments in a different session alongside it or you could just run the apps alongside eachother without the same level of integration, but most of the details of how GNUStep will behave have long since been decided.
I suppose it could be done if both the KDE and Gnome people could be convinced to make large changes to certain parts of their respective environments so that they act exactly like NeXT did (which would have all kinds of neat implications), but how likely would that be?
Your statement also could have started with: "Standardizing the Internet" or "Standardizing PC hardware" or "Standardizing MPEG4 Compression" or a crapload of other things.
Standards are not intended to completely remove compatability issues between platforms. All they do is ensure that most things will work most of the time.
What you fail to grasp here is that UNIX (or any of the above things) is in practice nothing more than a standard, if it is not defined then its existance becomes something of a moot point.