that's a bunch of bullshit, mini-itx has no where near the hardware funcationality to handle mobile setups.
The empeg has special kernel hooks, and power controls to handle dips in car power. Car voltages fluctuate wildly while starting. The empeg also stores state in a small flash area which is controled by a kernel module to make sure the thing can start where it left off on next boot.
I'd like to see you stuff a mini-itx board, power supply, laptop drive, shock mounting, and display in a single din dashboard. Put your money where your mouth is, write the software, show us the hardware setup, and then we can talk about "oh yea, anyone can do that"
I've been using my empeg since 2000, and after 4 years of running strong, there is still no other product out there that comes ANYWHERE near the quality or functionality of it. The 12gig drive is starting to feel a bit small, but with room for 2 laptop drives, adding a 40gig drive seems like nothing. As others on the empegbbs feel, Rio has droped the ball by not doing any new development in the car audio arena. They only made 4500 empegs, and everyone thinks they gave up way too fast on them.
I worry about the day that my empeg stops working, I don't know of any other car audio unit that could come close to replacing it. Having to go back to swaping CDs in my car would feel like going back to the stone ages.
yep.. I have a vertical slip case for my Thinkpad X31, I carry it every day to work and back.. the sfbags are very worth the price.. the construction quality is excelent.
The thing I liked the most about the sfbags stuff was the fact that they size the bags to fit laptops, Ever other company makes a laptop bag for 15" boats, but a good well-fit case for smaller laptops is hard to find. the case for the X31 is perfect, it was snug at first, but after a month of use, it streched to perfect fit.
I keep my slipcase in my North Face: Yavapai. Good sturdy backpack, with a nice organized front pouch for pens, tools, checkbook, business cards, etc etc. It has a great elastic pocket on the inside that keeps the slipcase from floping around inside the bag.
I'm not so sure, initial testing of the EM64T showed it to be based on an earlier non-released rev of amd64 arch. BTW.. AMD market-droids do not call it x86-64 now. I guess they wanted to make it clear they did it first. I don't understand how everyone keeps glossing over the fact that Intel is using AMD's design. The article doesn't even mention that the intel chip is compatable with AMD or viceversa. They make it out like EM64T is it's own thing.
Is it just me, or does the article gloss over the fact that "EM64T" is actual a clone of the AMD64 architecture? Are intel's market-droids trying to brainwash people, or are people really that clueless to the fact that INTEL IS MAKIGN A CLONE OF AN AMD CHIP?
Give credit where credit is due.. EM64T is clone crap, and is signifigantly slower than the AMD chips.
i bet there are a lot of bikes per 100 in the US... but no one ever uses them. Hell.. people will drive from one store to the next, because they have such huge parking lots, it's several blocks between stores.
I got off the bus yesterday and walked to target, got a couple things, put in my backpack.. walked 2 blocks over to the pet store, then another 3 blocks over to the grocery store.. and then 8 blocks back home.. 99% of americans would probably have driven that, not even 2 miles of walking.
My gf just got back from a quick 10mile ride today, and I try and bike 10 miles round trip to work atleast 2 times a week.
I'm putting in Abloy locks in my house, they are very nice quality, and dificult to pick. They were fairly expensive, cost me around 500 eu$ for a set of 3 locks.. no deadbolt is needed because they are auto-deadbolting mortice locks. The only problem is finding a mortice capeable door, no one in the US sells decent doors for residential use.
as posted by someone else, laptops are also going to take up even less, because users are more likely to put them to sleep, or power down on the off hours.
My thinkpad X31 uses 11.2watts when running with LCD on lower power, and 13.3watts with LCD on highest power. if I were actualy doing a minor ammount of work on it, i bet it would average 15watts.
a desktop quality laptop would run around $1500.. after LCD pannel, and corperate desktop prices.. I bet the desktop is going to cost about the same.
sure you can build a home box for $500 in savings.. but most places that buy lots and lots of desktops are probably paying about the same as a laptop.
having laptops also give workers an excuse to work from home, and that reduces A/C costs by the ammount of one human heat output, and also desk lights.. (those popular 150w halogen things are so wastefull)
yep.. alergic tolerences work. I'm alergic to many cats, but I own two of them.. I got them as kittens when their dander was light, and I suffered for a while.. but these days, I barely notice. Some of my friends cats.. most notably the longer-haired cats cause my body to shut-down after an hour or so of exposure.
yep.. i admin a 16-way ES-7000 system, runnin linux, with almost no help from unisys themselvs. We had ia32 machine running 2k datacenter, and it was a dog. we traded up (donation to my school both times) for a ia64 model, and told them that this time we wanted linux on one of the partitions, they looked at us funny, and handed us a "how to install suse" guide, and said "call suse"
we ended up running RHEL 3 on the box, because of problems with suse. officialy supported my ass.
Funny thing is, they sell the boxes as 32-way machines, but they're actualy pairs of 16-way machines, that fail-over to each other, because windows isn't stable enough to just run on one box.
Unisys and MS are trying to break into the HPC market.. but it's just not working.
(my opinions, not my employer, just in case my managment sees this)
I use an RF keyboard for my HTPC setup. It workes reasonably well, range could use about another 5' but overall, I have very few problems. (logitech keyboard/mouse wireless combo)
yep.. it's funny any time some noob wants to talk about clustering, they start with beowulf. I recently attended a clustering summit in minneapolis, and I did't think I heard the term Beowulf used even once. We discussed things like clustering filesystems, HPC vs. HA clusters, and we had a great talk on http://openssi.org/ and samba clustering.
The rumor mill is going on about a new Treo phone due in a month or two.. perfect upgrade for the visorphone. Right now, I'm on CDMA, so the motorola thing would require porting my phone number.
Actualy, I run a 16-way IA-64 machine at work, I purchased an EDU license for RHEL 3, and put the CD in the box and did the install. No custom modifications, no compiling.
We also have some SGI altix stuff.. it's very nice.
funny, I've been using screen to let me access my computer for 8 years. I have access to all my data, and email. I think that was the bigest reason I stoped using windows at the time, screen was faster, and didn't have huge bandwidth requirements like vnc did.
I use GFS (proprietary version) at work in our HPC cluster. I like it a lot, the support Sistina provided while they were selling GFS was excelent. It was really anoying to have to deal with patching/building special kernels with special names to match the sistina binary versions, I'm very glad that will be over.
SGI's CXFS is a pile of crap.. I hope this thing with HP provides something that doesn't suck.
We recently ran into a bug in CXFS that would cause group readable files to not be readable by the group.. uhh.. broken base unix permissions.. that's just silly.. although it was a beta patch for CXFS, sheesh.. they said it would take a month to fix the bug.
Yep.. I've been a licensee of GFS for a couple years now at work. We use GFS across several nodes with FibreChannel disk. The bigest problem I have run into is dealing with custom-built binary kernel modules, and having to wait for Sistina/RedHat to release updates.. Now that it's GPL, we can get the GFS support in the base redhat AS kernel, and not have to have custom kernels for the few nodes in the cluster that use GFS. I can now also use FibreChannel disk for a student group at the U of MN with their small network. Using GFS to serve files would be awsome.
actualy, they do support other distros. Sistina software, who was aquired by RedHat, is down the street from my office. They still show SuSE as a supported distro.
I am personaly going to try installing GFS on some Debian systems for a U of M student group who recently got a donation of some used Fibre-Channel disk.
What I'm hoping for now is support for ia64, and other platforms. It would also be nice if GFS could now be ported to other OS's like AIS and Solaris.
And again, at the University of Minnesota.. I know someone who works on new PeopleSoft installations.. to quote him about the U of MN, "That isn't my division"
I belive the U of MN cost of installation was doubled, becuase we had to hire outside peoplesoft consultants to re-write major portions of their code.
I personaly started using computers with DOS 3. xt's and 286's were around at my dad's work, and I would just poke around with them, trying any command I could come up with. When we finaly got a computer at home, it came with windows 3.0, (and then 3.1 free upgrade) It took so long for my 386-33 to load up stuff in windows, i just gave up and went back to doing things from dos...
Several years later, I started taking classes at the U of MN, and was given a free shell account on a sun system.. I didn't know anything about it, they provided a menu system that would get me to pine, tin, and gopher. There was a unix shell menu option, and I started playing with that, at first, I had no idea what was going on, becuase I was used to DOS. I finaly got a book that was "Unix for DOS users", and had a nice one-to-one table of commands, and some unix basics. I had no one around to really teach me any unix stuff, as everyone was using windows 3.1 and then 95. I eventualy got slackware of a local BBS.. and later on a friend ordered a slackware disk from walunt creek.
after getting to college.. i just stoped using windows because if I left my PC in windows, I had to be in my dorm room to use it.. if I was using linux, I could telnet to it from computer labs all over campus and play with stuff while being social with all the geeks who didn't have their own computers.
These days, I just don't have a use for windows.. all my work stuff is Linux, and I think the only windows software I have to use is for uploading music to my NetMD.
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that's a bunch of bullshit, mini-itx has no where near the hardware funcationality to handle mobile setups.
The empeg has special kernel hooks, and power controls to handle dips in car power. Car voltages fluctuate wildly while starting. The empeg also stores state in a small flash area which is controled by a kernel module to make sure the thing can start where it left off on next boot.
I'd like to see you stuff a mini-itx board, power supply, laptop drive, shock mounting, and display in a single din dashboard. Put your money where your mouth is, write the software, show us the hardware setup, and then we can talk about "oh yea, anyone can do that"
I've been using my empeg since 2000, and after 4 years of running strong, there is still no other product out there that comes ANYWHERE near the quality or functionality of it. The 12gig drive is starting to feel a bit small, but with room for 2 laptop drives, adding a 40gig drive seems like nothing. As others on the empegbbs feel, Rio has droped the ball by not doing any new development in the car audio arena. They only made 4500 empegs, and everyone thinks they gave up way too fast on them.
I worry about the day that my empeg stops working, I don't know of any other car audio unit that could come close to replacing it. Having to go back to swaping CDs in my car would feel like going back to the stone ages.
yep.. I have a vertical slip case for my Thinkpad X31, I carry it every day to work and back.. the sfbags are very worth the price.. the construction quality is excelent.
The thing I liked the most about the sfbags stuff was the fact that they size the bags to fit laptops, Ever other company makes a laptop bag for 15" boats, but a good well-fit case for smaller laptops is hard to find. the case for the X31 is perfect, it was snug at first, but after a month of use, it streched to perfect fit.
I keep my slipcase in my North Face: Yavapai. Good sturdy backpack, with a nice organized front pouch for pens, tools, checkbook, business cards, etc etc. It has a great elastic pocket on the inside that keeps the slipcase from floping around inside the bag.
I'm not so sure, initial testing of the EM64T showed it to be based on an earlier non-released rev of amd64 arch. BTW.. AMD market-droids do not call it x86-64 now. I guess they wanted to make it clear they did it first. I don't understand how everyone keeps glossing over the fact that Intel is using AMD's design. The article doesn't even mention that the intel chip is compatable with AMD or viceversa. They make it out like EM64T is it's own thing.
Is it just me, or does the article gloss over the fact that "EM64T" is actual a clone of the AMD64 architecture? Are intel's market-droids trying to brainwash people, or are people really that clueless to the fact that INTEL IS MAKIGN A CLONE OF AN AMD CHIP?
Give credit where credit is due.. EM64T is clone crap, and is signifigantly slower than the AMD chips.
i bet there are a lot of bikes per 100 in the US... but no one ever uses them. Hell.. people will drive from one store to the next, because they have such huge parking lots, it's several blocks between stores.
I got off the bus yesterday and walked to target, got a couple things, put in my backpack.. walked 2 blocks over to the pet store, then another 3 blocks over to the grocery store.. and then 8 blocks back home.. 99% of americans would probably have driven that, not even 2 miles of walking.
My gf just got back from a quick 10mile ride today, and I try and bike 10 miles round trip to work atleast 2 times a week.
I'm putting in Abloy locks in my house, they are very nice quality, and dificult to pick. They were fairly expensive, cost me around 500 eu$ for a set of 3 locks.. no deadbolt is needed because they are auto-deadbolting mortice locks. The only problem is finding a mortice capeable door, no one in the US sells decent doors for residential use.
http://www.abloy.com
as posted by someone else, laptops are also going to take up even less, because users are more likely to put them to sleep, or power down on the off hours.
My thinkpad X31 uses 11.2watts when running with LCD on lower power, and 13.3watts with LCD on highest power. if I were actualy doing a minor ammount of work on it, i bet it would average 15watts.
a desktop quality laptop would run around $1500.. after LCD pannel, and corperate desktop prices.. I bet the desktop is going to cost about the same.
sure you can build a home box for $500 in savings.. but most places that buy lots and lots of desktops are probably paying about the same as a laptop.
having laptops also give workers an excuse to work from home, and that reduces A/C costs by the ammount of one human heat output, and also desk lights.. (those popular 150w halogen things are so wastefull)
I have a soekris net4501, it uses less than 10watts, and provides most of the services for my house.
with a laptop drive attached, you could get a soekris net4801, and power the thing for around 15watts.
The other great option is to use an old laptop, laptops in general use less than 50 watts when operating.. even less with the LCD turned off.
My thinkpad T21 uses 20 watts with the lid closed, and the disk spinning.
URL: http://www.soekris.com
that's what fakeroot is for. :)
yep.. alergic tolerences work. I'm alergic to many cats, but I own two of them.. I got them as kittens when their dander was light, and I suffered for a while.. but these days, I barely notice. Some of my friends cats.. most notably the longer-haired cats cause my body to shut-down after an hour or so of exposure.
yep.. i admin a 16-way ES-7000 system, runnin linux, with almost no help from unisys themselvs. We had ia32 machine running 2k datacenter, and it was a dog. we traded up (donation to my school both times) for a ia64 model, and told them that this time we wanted linux on one of the partitions, they looked at us funny, and handed us a "how to install suse" guide, and said "call suse"
we ended up running RHEL 3 on the box, because of problems with suse. officialy supported my ass.
Funny thing is, they sell the boxes as 32-way machines, but they're actualy pairs of 16-way machines, that fail-over to each other, because windows isn't stable enough to just run on one box.
Unisys and MS are trying to break into the HPC market.. but it's just not working.
(my opinions, not my employer, just in case my managment sees this)
Would you please post documenation (intel.com links maybe?) where you found this? I would like to see some hard evidence. just curious
I use an RF keyboard for my HTPC setup. It workes reasonably well, range could use about another 5' but overall, I have very few problems. (logitech keyboard/mouse wireless combo)
haha.. whois:
OrgName: DoD Network Information Center
NetRange: 55.0.0.0 - 55.255.255.255
CIDR: 55.0.0.0/8
the DoD is a spam source?
yep.. it's funny any time some noob wants to talk about clustering, they start with beowulf. I recently attended a clustering summit in minneapolis, and I did't think I heard the term Beowulf used even once. We discussed things like clustering filesystems, HPC vs. HA clusters, and we had a great talk on http://openssi.org/ and samba clustering.
I have yet to see anyone actualy using Beowulf.
The rumor mill is going on about a new Treo phone due in a month or two.. perfect upgrade for the visorphone. Right now, I'm on CDMA, so the motorola thing would require porting my phone number.
Actualy, I run a 16-way IA-64 machine at work, I purchased an EDU license for RHEL 3, and put the CD in the box and did the install. No custom modifications, no compiling.
We also have some SGI altix stuff.. it's very nice.
or you could just buy a real commercial antenna for a little bit more from places like http://www.fab-corp.com or http://www.demarctech.com
The thing that really bugs me about all these is the lack of real spec information.. cantenna looks like they finaly posted specs for their product.
for $43 from fab-corp, you can get a 15db (2x the gain of the cantenna) parabolic dish.
funny, I've been using screen to let me access my computer for 8 years. I have access to all my data, and email. I think that was the bigest reason I stoped using windows at the time, screen was faster, and didn't have huge bandwidth requirements like vnc did.
I use GFS (proprietary version) at work in our HPC cluster. I like it a lot, the support Sistina provided while they were selling GFS was excelent. It was really anoying to have to deal with patching/building special kernels with special names to match the sistina binary versions, I'm very glad that will be over.
SGI's CXFS is a pile of crap.. I hope this thing with HP provides something that doesn't suck.
We recently ran into a bug in CXFS that would cause group readable files to not be readable by the group.. uhh.. broken base unix permissions.. that's just silly.. although it was a beta patch for CXFS, sheesh.. they said it would take a month to fix the bug.
Yep.. I've been a licensee of GFS for a couple years now at work. We use GFS across several nodes with FibreChannel disk. The bigest problem I have run into is dealing with custom-built binary kernel modules, and having to wait for Sistina/RedHat to release updates.. Now that it's GPL, we can get the GFS support in the base redhat AS kernel, and not have to have custom kernels for the few nodes in the cluster that use GFS. I can now also use FibreChannel disk for a student group at the U of MN with their small network. Using GFS to serve files would be awsome.
actualy, they do support other distros. Sistina software, who was aquired by RedHat, is down the street from my office. They still show SuSE as a supported distro.
I am personaly going to try installing GFS on some Debian systems for a U of M student group who recently got a donation of some used Fibre-Channel disk.
What I'm hoping for now is support for ia64, and other platforms. It would also be nice if GFS could now be ported to other OS's like AIS and Solaris.
And again, at the University of Minnesota.. I know someone who works on new PeopleSoft installations.. to quote him about the U of MN, "That isn't my division"
I belive the U of MN cost of installation was doubled, becuase we had to hire outside peoplesoft consultants to re-write major portions of their code.
I personaly started using computers with DOS 3. xt's and 286's were around at my dad's work, and I would just poke around with them, trying any command I could come up with. When we finaly got a computer at home, it came with windows 3.0, (and then 3.1 free upgrade) It took so long for my 386-33 to load up stuff in windows, i just gave up and went back to doing things from dos...
Several years later, I started taking classes at the U of MN, and was given a free shell account on a sun system.. I didn't know anything about it, they provided a menu system that would get me to pine, tin, and gopher. There was a unix shell menu option, and I started playing with that, at first, I had no idea what was going on, becuase I was used to DOS. I finaly got a book that was "Unix for DOS users", and had a nice one-to-one table of commands, and some unix basics. I had no one around to really teach me any unix stuff, as everyone was using windows 3.1 and then 95. I eventualy got slackware of a local BBS.. and later on a friend ordered a slackware disk from walunt creek.
after getting to college.. i just stoped using windows because if I left my PC in windows, I had to be in my dorm room to use it.. if I was using linux, I could telnet to it from computer labs all over campus and play with stuff while being social with all the geeks who didn't have their own computers.
These days, I just don't have a use for windows.. all my work stuff is Linux, and I think the only windows software I have to use is for uploading music to my NetMD.