Gee, I wonder why they're not going to port Solaris 9 to x86... maybe because they now have hardware priced cheap enough to compete with the PC market and they knew people would say exactly what these two have said? Couldn't be...;-)
Dual proc boards are great if you're running apps that are multithreaded. Otherwise, you're only going to be able to take advantage of one of those processors. You also have to take into account what kind of SMP support the OS has. Some OS's scale very well with multiple procs (Solaris, AIX) and some just do ok (Linux, NT).
This article would be dead on the point if you replaced the word 'Pascal' with the word 'Linux'. Far too often I find myself on Google searching for a technical article about Linux, and what receive back is a list of links to site which proclaim that Linux is the best and everything else sucks. There is a big image problem with the Linux community right now for this very reason.
One of the websites I run has a bunch of documents linked off of it primarily in Word format _because that's what 100% of our customer base uses_; we set the standards. About three months ago I received an e-mail from a Linux user on the west coast stating that we should make the documents available in alternate formats to make it easier for non-Windows users to read them. Fine, good suggestion. But then he goes on for about half of a page ranting about how 'Windows People' always do this and why Windows sucks. Now this person probably also wonders why we don't use Linux. I wish he could have seen the look on my bosses face and heard the laughter as he pitched the printed copy in the trashcan.
Like the article says, when are people going to realize that there may be two right ways to do something?
Why not create some government/large business/whatever funded programs to help these large companies come up with power sources of their own? Solar power, wind power, whatever. This would have the added benefit that even if the power grid were flakey, they would still have some sort of power flow into their buildings. Of course I guess you could say all the data centers are powered by 'sun' then. =)
This reminds me... offtopic I know, but funny none-the-less... My girlfriend and I took a good friend to an 'adult entertainment' store one evening after he turned 21. The whole time he was there he played a 15 year old Ms. Pac-Man machine that had probably been sitting in the corner for as long unused. Funniest thing I've ever seen.
Maybe because that's not what all of us are looking for? Remember, 95% of the desktop market is stilled owned by Microsoft. Why would a company invest huge amounts of money in making a product that only ~5% of the desktop market is likely too buy? What _I_ would like to see, and where the money for a large company would be, is making a device such as this that lets you run the OS of your choice, no matter if it is Linux or Windows... or BeOS or BSD Unix... etc.
What I don't understand is that they released the chip knowing this. I don't see how they didn't think they were going to get bad press out of this one; even the Intel guys test their chips against others in their labs. Would it not have been more advantagous to clock the P3 one step higher until they could have released the 'real' P4? But, then again, they may be betting on the fact that bad press is better then no press at all. Hell, it's worked for Microsoft.
Yes I did, you are correct. =) It was exactly that; an application running as a privileged process went nuts and brought down everything else with it. And as another posted a couple of levels up said, it would be nice to have included resource limits in 2000... however, I am stoked that you can now set processor affinity. That makes my life a whole lot easier. Give a really processor intensive app a couple of processors to run on, and the OS the rest.
See, this kind of chaps my ass. Generaly posts like these are submitted by people which have no real experience with running the operating system in question; in this case Win2K. This is just backed up by the fact that the person references 'crashes' which he did not experience himself. Personally, I manage twelve Win2K servers (both Server and Advanced Server) and have only had good exepriences with them. In fact, since their installation this past summer, I have only had to reboot one of them once due to a home-grown application error, not an OS error. Win2K sure may have it's stability problems, but I'm sure as heck not seeing 'em.
I don't like it. I don't want to pay what is probably 50% of the total system price when I have a perfectly fine $1100 DVD player sitting right next too it. It would be great it they would have made the DVD player an optional extra.
ALG
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Of course the ideal solution isn't available. It's impossible to make a list of every porn site, as they come up every hour, on the Internet. But isn't making getting to these sites harder worth it? Making it 'more difficult' _is_ the ideal solution in this situation.
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"No, no... I said V-A-C-U-U-M!"
Yeah, you think that's funny now... wait until MANT is eating your head!
ALG
Companies like to make money, film at eleven!
ALG
I think lots of naked ladies are a great design characteristic in a web site. Even better if it's free.
ALG
This sounds pretty cool, buuuuuuuuuudy.
ALG
Gee, I wonder why they're not going to port Solaris 9 to x86... maybe because they now have hardware priced cheap enough to compete with the PC market and they knew people would say exactly what these two have said? Couldn't be... ;-)
ALG
Dual proc boards are great if you're running apps that are multithreaded. Otherwise, you're only going to be able to take advantage of one of those processors. You also have to take into account what kind of SMP support the OS has. Some OS's scale very well with multiple procs (Solaris, AIX) and some just do ok (Linux, NT).
Abe
Now I don't need to drop a hit before I play Quake!
ALG
This article would be dead on the point if you replaced the word 'Pascal' with the word 'Linux'. Far too often I find myself on Google searching for a technical article about Linux, and what receive back is a list of links to site which proclaim that Linux is the best and everything else sucks. There is a big image problem with the Linux community right now for this very reason.
One of the websites I run has a bunch of documents linked off of it primarily in Word format _because that's what 100% of our customer base uses_; we set the standards. About three months ago I received an e-mail from a Linux user on the west coast stating that we should make the documents available in alternate formats to make it easier for non-Windows users to read them. Fine, good suggestion. But then he goes on for about half of a page ranting about how 'Windows People' always do this and why Windows sucks. Now this person probably also wonders why we don't use Linux. I wish he could have seen the look on my bosses face and heard the laughter as he pitched the printed copy in the trashcan.
Like the article says, when are people going to realize that there may be two right ways to do something?
ALG
Why not create some government/large business/whatever funded programs to help these large companies come up with power sources of their own? Solar power, wind power, whatever. This would have the added benefit that even if the power grid were flakey, they would still have some sort of power flow into their buildings. Of course I guess you could say all the data centers are powered by 'sun' then. =)
ALG
I think it's funny that Unix users complain about typing long commands to get something accomplished.
/home/alg/porn -name *facial*.jpg -print
find
ALG
This reminds me... offtopic I know, but funny none-the-less... My girlfriend and I took a good friend to an 'adult entertainment' store one evening after he turned 21. The whole time he was there he played a 15 year old Ms. Pac-Man machine that had probably been sitting in the corner for as long unused. Funniest thing I've ever seen.
ALG
Maybe because that's not what all of us are looking for? Remember, 95% of the desktop market is stilled owned by Microsoft. Why would a company invest huge amounts of money in making a product that only ~5% of the desktop market is likely too buy? What _I_ would like to see, and where the money for a large company would be, is making a device such as this that lets you run the OS of your choice, no matter if it is Linux or Windows... or BeOS or BSD Unix... etc.
ALG
We shouldn't? =)
ALG
What I don't understand is that they released the chip knowing this. I don't see how they didn't think they were going to get bad press out of this one; even the Intel guys test their chips against others in their labs. Would it not have been more advantagous to clock the P3 one step higher until they could have released the 'real' P4? But, then again, they may be betting on the fact that bad press is better then no press at all. Hell, it's worked for Microsoft.
ALG
... Pimpwars!
ALG
Yes I did, you are correct. =) It was exactly that; an application running as a privileged process went nuts and brought down everything else with it. And as another posted a couple of levels up said, it would be nice to have included resource limits in 2000... however, I am stoked that you can now set processor affinity. That makes my life a whole lot easier. Give a really processor intensive app a couple of processors to run on, and the OS the rest.
ALG
See, this kind of chaps my ass. Generaly posts like these are submitted by people which have no real experience with running the operating system in question; in this case Win2K. This is just backed up by the fact that the person references 'crashes' which he did not experience himself. Personally, I manage twelve Win2K servers (both Server and Advanced Server) and have only had good exepriences with them. In fact, since their installation this past summer, I have only had to reboot one of them once due to a home-grown application error, not an OS error. Win2K sure may have it's stability problems, but I'm sure as heck not seeing 'em.
ALG
Yeah, god forbid standardize on an e-mail client and make support easier. That would be terrible!
ALG
I don't like it. I don't want to pay what is probably 50% of the total system price when I have a perfectly fine $1100 DVD player sitting right next too it. It would be great it they would have made the DVD player an optional extra.
ALG
Damn, I was _born_ in 1977. =D
ALG
What will all those plumbers do if 'cracking' is illegal?!
ALG
I wonder what's going to happen when they intorduce that nasty metal eating fungus into our environment?
ALG
I wonder what's going to happen to the $40 million they raised if they're going just going to go ahead and dump the Mir anyways?
ALG
Of course the ideal solution isn't available. It's impossible to make a list of every porn site, as they come up every hour, on the Internet. But isn't making getting to these sites harder worth it? Making it 'more difficult' _is_ the ideal solution in this situation.
ALG