Right, but I need spaces in my filenames about as much as I need native support for Linear A. Software is for humans, and for this particular human, simple and effective software is more valuable than allowing 0x20.
That's okay. I see no point in allowing anonymous posting, but I recognize that some individuals (I hesitate to call them people) do it 'because they can.'
Re:Floating point performance
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See, that's how I used to think. G4 at 800MHz... 4 fp operations in parallel with altivec... 3.2GFlop goodness. But of course, why stop there? With various tuning, you can get up to 32-way parallel integer math (although going beyond 16, admittedly, sucks). 3.2 GFlop is nice, but 25.6 G-ops ain't too shabby.
Re:Floating point performance
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If the heatsink is massive, and it's made of aluminum, it probably makes up a significant number of the atoms in the computer. As a result, the Pentium M mini-itx board probably uses more electrons. It also, purely coincidentally, uses more electricity than the Nehemiah boards.
Re:4 GB CF extraction..
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Compact flash is an interface. It is used by solid state disks, rotating disks, modems, and other devices. In this case, it is rather obvious from context that the CF device under discussion was a hard drive.
Re:I built a fanless ITX system...
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What characteristics do you want? There are two major types of solid state drives -- battery-backed ram, and flash ram. Both are expensive and small. Only one is fast.
My requirements were essentially (1) no moving parts, (2) affordable if not cheap, and (3) small. I settles on one of these. Debian is fine on 128MB, with 512MB of ram and no swap. Performance, it should be said, sucks. The next step up, for slightly more performance, much more capacity, and a whole lot more cost, is here; but I wanted to avoid using a case that needed drive bays, plus I haven't pockets that deep.
Neither of those is likely to be what you want for a database system, though. You're probably more in the market for a bunch of ram and a battery, unless your primary concern is reliability. If speed is the goal, you want this, or, for more capacity and more money, this. Note that I haven't used either extensively, and in playing around with the rocket a little, I was surprised just how much of a bottleneck PCI became. Also, the rocket doesn't have a battery... so really, unless you have a board with 8GB of memory, and you just need another 8GB of low latency space, it's not such a great deal today.
If you fit into any of the niches above, solid state is wonderful. It's always more expensive than you think, though. And for any database systems I've dealt with, a disk is without question the way to go, perhaps with more memory on board. But if you want any further tips, I'm glad to help.
I wasn't the original poster, but I can tell you why it bothers me. Using spaces and other non-normal characters in filenames means that the files actual name is different from the typed representation of the file name. So "My File" needs to be referred to as "My\ File". Now, this isn't so big a deal if all you ever do is use the command line. But I tend to interact with guis at times. And the two major operations I perform between guis and clis is copy and paste and drag and drop. Both fail with filenames with spaces. If I copy a file name "My File" and paste it to the terminal (or drag and drop the file there, which has exactly the same effect), the text that is automatically entered does not represent what I intended it to. This is broken behavior and, while it could be worked around (especially in the drag and drop case, there's no reason for the gui not to make the correction if it knows it's being dropped in a terminal), it's easier just to avoid it entirely.
Yes, but see my comment here, and its parent comment, for why this is an interesting option, even if not the best performance.
Re:I built a fanless ITX system...
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Six times as much as what? My entire mini-itx system was under $500, and most of the cost of that was a solid-state drive large enough for a decent linux distribution... and most of the rest was a touch-screen monitor.
Re:Inexpensive for testing purposes,
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I agree, but that's actually a very interesting use. It also lets you play around with network topologies, and interconnects, and such. And of course, these boards do have one PCI slot, as well as the standard assortment of serial and parallel, so the hardware people can have fun too. For real number crunching? Not a chance. For doing a $2000 prototype, in 15 nodes, of a $50000 50-node cluster? I can't really think of a more flexible, more convenient, or more affordable option. For doing a $1000, 6-node flexible network simulator, purely for education? Also more than worth it, with few other options around.
Re:This has been the "story" for the past two year
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When Google falls behind, you'll know it because you'll be using something else
Except that there is some hysteresis (for most people) in finding the better solution, convincing themselves it's really better, and switching over. Most of here, I'm sure, pride ourselves in being among the first crowd to really switch over to google from altavista and all the rest. And we want to know who, and what, the next thing is -- and don't doubt it, there will be a next thing eventually, though it may be years away yet. The only way to be the first to know is to stay alert and keep watching.
Yep. Even with stripping the punctuation, it's 122 characters. C'est la vie; those who can't extrapolate the next two characters probably wouldn't get it anyway.
With the exception that fewer people will die because of such controversies in Knuth' case, because there aren't too many militant guerilla groups fighting for the right way to do seminumerical algorithms.
All of a sudden I'm feeling rather inspired... does anyone want to start one with me?
I own exactly one pair of blue jeans (I'm a khaki guy). I wear them only for job interviews. Wearing khakis just seems too formal for an interview for a CS job.
Suggestings saying that laws preventing the distribution of porn, music, etc are just do no favors for establishing the legitimacy of our current government.
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Right, but I need spaces in my filenames about as much as I need native support for Linear A. Software is for humans, and for this particular human, simple and effective software is more valuable than allowing 0x20.
That's okay. I see no point in allowing anonymous posting, but I recognize that some individuals (I hesitate to call them people) do it 'because they can.'
See, that's how I used to think. G4 at 800MHz... 4 fp operations in parallel with altivec... 3.2GFlop goodness. But of course, why stop there? With various tuning, you can get up to 32-way parallel integer math (although going beyond 16, admittedly, sucks). 3.2 GFlop is nice, but 25.6 G-ops ain't too shabby.
If the heatsink is massive, and it's made of aluminum, it probably makes up a significant number of the atoms in the computer. As a result, the Pentium M mini-itx board probably uses more electrons. It also, purely coincidentally, uses more electricity than the Nehemiah boards.
Here's your link, by the way.
Compact flash is an interface. It is used by solid state disks, rotating disks, modems, and other devices. In this case, it is rather obvious from context that the CF device under discussion was a hard drive.
What characteristics do you want? There are two major types of solid state drives -- battery-backed ram, and flash ram. Both are expensive and small. Only one is fast.
My requirements were essentially (1) no moving parts, (2) affordable if not cheap, and (3) small. I settles on one of these. Debian is fine on 128MB, with 512MB of ram and no swap. Performance, it should be said, sucks. The next step up, for slightly more performance, much more capacity, and a whole lot more cost, is here; but I wanted to avoid using a case that needed drive bays, plus I haven't pockets that deep.
Neither of those is likely to be what you want for a database system, though. You're probably more in the market for a bunch of ram and a battery, unless your primary concern is reliability. If speed is the goal, you want this, or, for more capacity and more money, this. Note that I haven't used either extensively, and in playing around with the rocket a little, I was surprised just how much of a bottleneck PCI became. Also, the rocket doesn't have a battery... so really, unless you have a board with 8GB of memory, and you just need another 8GB of low latency space, it's not such a great deal today.
If you fit into any of the niches above, solid state is wonderful. It's always more expensive than you think, though. And for any database systems I've dealt with, a disk is without question the way to go, perhaps with more memory on board. But if you want any further tips, I'm glad to help.
I wasn't the original poster, but I can tell you why it bothers me. Using spaces and other non-normal characters in filenames means that the files actual name is different from the typed representation of the file name. So "My File" needs to be referred to as "My\ File". Now, this isn't so big a deal if all you ever do is use the command line. But I tend to interact with guis at times. And the two major operations I perform between guis and clis is copy and paste and drag and drop. Both fail with filenames with spaces. If I copy a file name "My File" and paste it to the terminal (or drag and drop the file there, which has exactly the same effect), the text that is automatically entered does not represent what I intended it to. This is broken behavior and, while it could be worked around (especially in the drag and drop case, there's no reason for the gui not to make the correction if it knows it's being dropped in a terminal), it's easier just to avoid it entirely.
Yes, but see my comment here, and its parent comment, for why this is an interesting option, even if not the best performance.
Six times as much as what? My entire mini-itx system was under $500, and most of the cost of that was a solid-state drive large enough for a decent linux distribution... and most of the rest was a touch-screen monitor.
I agree, but that's actually a very interesting use. It also lets you play around with network topologies, and interconnects, and such. And of course, these boards do have one PCI slot, as well as the standard assortment of serial and parallel, so the hardware people can have fun too. For real number crunching? Not a chance. For doing a $2000 prototype, in 15 nodes, of a $50000 50-node cluster? I can't really think of a more flexible, more convenient, or more affordable option. For doing a $1000, 6-node flexible network simulator, purely for education? Also more than worth it, with few other options around.
Here, if you have decent hardware.
Built into ProjectBuilder, using Rendevous, on all current macs.
Take PPC for example, and, um, do an isync?
When Google falls behind, you'll know it because you'll be using something else
Except that there is some hysteresis (for most people) in finding the better solution, convincing themselves it's really better, and switching over. Most of here, I'm sure, pride ourselves in being among the first crowd to really switch over to google from altavista and all the rest. And we want to know who, and what, the next thing is -- and don't doubt it, there will be a next thing eventually, though it may be years away yet. The only way to be the first to know is to stay alert and keep watching.
Yep. Even with stripping the punctuation, it's 122 characters. C'est la vie; those who can't extrapolate the next two characters probably wouldn't get it anyway.
And of course, google provides a lightweight frontend for when the main page is just too heavy.
I think this is exactly what he means. We get the beginning of the story, but then, no followup!
With the exception that fewer people will die because of such controversies in Knuth' case, because there aren't too many militant guerilla groups fighting for the right way to do seminumerical algorithms.
All of a sudden I'm feeling rather inspired... does anyone want to start one with me?
The sniper has a better chance of getting out alive than the bomb does.
That depends if you use the traditional Inuit satellites, or the new-fangled white-folk ones.
Suit? A suit?
I own exactly one pair of blue jeans (I'm a khaki guy). I wear them only for job interviews. Wearing khakis just seems too formal for an interview for a CS job.
I use a hair dryer regularly on heat-shrink tubing! Shavers, and soap and stuff, not so much.
It's typographic shorthand for Metrake, clearly. Maybe a good name for the Yankees?
It hasn't changed much.
Suggestings saying that laws preventing the distribution of porn, music, etc are just do no favors for establishing the legitimacy of our current government.