I do not believe the Y2K will go withot a hitch. Here is why:
While we may be ok on the technology side, you just never know what people are gonna do. For example, if people think banks will collapse, they'll take all their money from the banks -- causing them to collapse. If they think phone is not gonna work -- everyone will pick up the phone to make sure it works, etc. etc. So in this way, the disaster becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Here is an interesting historical fact: Some time in 1500's it was predicted that the end of the world was coming that year. Thinking that the end is near, the peasants stopped planting crops. As a result, many people died of starvation. Does anybody else see the parallel with Y2K?
You are assuming a new bus is necessary. PCI actually works rather well. It's 32 bit wide and 33Mhz, which is over 1 Gbit/s -- enough to saturate a gigabit ethernet -- not that you'd want a gigabit ethernet on a standard PCI bus. There are 64 bit wide / 66 MHz PCI buses as well. You don't really need them on a home computer or even a workstation though. Oh, and btw, ISA does a very good job as well. For what it's being used (sound cards, modems, etc.) you don't need high speed.
It's true that the U.S. has led the way into space.
I don't know about the rest of your post, but this is bull shit. USSR has led the way into space. It was the first one to launch a manned spacecraft, and the first one to have a man in open space (i.e. outside the rocked, in a space suite). The only thing US did first was to have people on the moon. But that doesn't mean that it somehow "led the way into space".
2a. Additionally, if you're using a geometry accel, you're EXACTLY LIMITED to the capacity of the chip. No faster CPU is going to give you better performance. What happens when your 10 MFLOP processor isn't enough for Q6?
That's a very good point. I actually thought about that myself, and eventually concluded that this is a *good* thing. Here's why:
The once-allpowerful mid-range pentiums (anywhere from 133 to 233) are still perfect for just about anything, given enough RAM. The one thing that they can't do well is 3d graphics, due to the weak FPU. However, if you can offload *all* graphics work to the video card, then you could still use the same CPU and enjoy much better graphics. That is what 3d accelerators did in the first place, and NVidia has taken it a step further.
Suppose I buy a kick-ass gaming system now. A year from now it will no longer cut it for the newest games, but will still be perfect for general use. At that point, I'd much rather spend $300 on a new video card that does all the graphics then $150 on a cheaper card + $500 on the new CPU + board...
Sorry folks, but the judge did not address this issue at all in the FoF. I remember reading about ever-changing APIs and IBM trying to catch up, but nowhere did it say that some APIs are closed (a large number in fact). So, given that, I don't see the judge dering MS to open up their APIs an keep thenm that way.
OK This is really lame. I hope next time Rob & Co. will actually check the validity of the article before posting it. It's already been covered before:
1. They tested on a machine with 4 100BaseT betwork cards. Show me a web server that has 4 * 100 Mbits/s bandwidth and uses it to serve static content.
2. Even on a file server it is extremely unlikely that it would have 4 network cards.
3. Contrary to what the tests show, Linux does not have pathetic scalability. Just do the same test with one 100baseT network card and notice the difference. Also, if you want to test real-world performance, you got to test dynamic content. C't did just that and Linux came out on top.
So will the raw filesystem support be included in 2.4.0? This would sure be very useful for Oracle and any other DB for that matter. Also, will Linux finally suport > 1 Gig of RAM on Alpha?
I seem to recall the story on/. that Packet Storm is now hosted somewhere else and they were able to retrieve all the data. Can somebody confirm/deny that please?
Non-journalling file system (a la ext2, fat, etc. ) must be properly unmounted on shutdown. If it's not unmounted cleanly, it needs to be checked for errors, since it has no idea what happened just before the crash/power failure/whatever.
Journalling file system keeps track of all the changes as they occur. So, even if it's not unmounted before shutdown, it can easily determine what was modified and deal with it as appropriate. So, for example, if you kick a power cord by accident, you no longer need to wait for 5 minutes while fsck scans the file system.
High-end data warehouses have file systems measured in terabytes. You *definitely* don't want to wait for fsck there...
Can somebody please explain in detail how the whole DVD encryption works?
Can't you just duplicate the encrypted DVD data using a DVD-R? You'd be able to get the exact replica of the original, and play it in any DVD player, without the need to decrypt it first. Or am I wrong?
Now the big question is -- where the hell did they get a PIII CPU with a multiplier of 7.5? Coppermine 733 has bus speed 133 and multiplier 5.5. Since the multipliers are locked, there is no way to change them. The PIII would have to work at 750MHz (100MHz bus) to have a multiplier of 7.5, but such CPU does not exist. The only CPU that has a multiplier of 7.5 is Celeron 500.
First, the very idea that Intel could prevent every single one of the 150+ motherboard manufacturers from building an Athlon board is silly. A good portion of these motherboard manufacturers don't even use Intel parts (other than the CPU) on their boards making them completely independent from Intel.
Uhhm... hello? Do you even know what you're talking about??? All motherboard makers use Intel chipsets in their boards. Intel is the only supplier of the BX chipsets. If you are not convinced, read up about the artificial BX chipset shortage. This story appeared everywhere. And Tom's Hardware and The Register provided the explanation of what was happening...
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I do not believe the Y2K will go withot a hitch. Here is why:
While we may be ok on the technology side, you just never know what people are gonna do. For example, if people think banks will collapse, they'll take all their money from the banks -- causing them to collapse. If they think phone is not gonna work -- everyone will pick up the phone to make sure it works, etc. etc. So in this way, the disaster becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Here is an interesting historical fact:
Some time in 1500's it was predicted that the end of the world was coming that year. Thinking that the end is near, the peasants stopped planting crops. As a result, many people died of starvation. Does anybody else see the parallel with Y2K?
You are assuming a new bus is necessary. PCI actually works rather well. It's 32 bit wide and 33Mhz, which is over 1 Gbit/s -- enough to saturate a gigabit ethernet -- not that you'd want a gigabit ethernet on a standard PCI bus. There are 64 bit wide / 66 MHz PCI buses as well. You don't really need them on a home computer or even a workstation though.
Oh, and btw, ISA does a very good job as well. For what it's being used (sound cards, modems, etc.) you don't need high speed.
uh-huh... whatever.
how about the first space station? the first satellite? the list goes on...
"American dream" was a joke to begin with and over time it got even more perverted. So, no surprise there.
I don't know about the rest of your post, but this is bull shit. USSR has led the way into space. It was the first one to launch a manned spacecraft, and the first one to have a man in open space (i.e. outside the rocked, in a space suite). The only thing US did first was to have people on the moon. But that doesn't mean that it somehow "led the way into space".
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does anybody have the "uncensored" picture?
That's a very good point. I actually thought about that myself, and eventually concluded that this is a *good* thing. Here's why:
The once-allpowerful mid-range pentiums (anywhere from 133 to 233) are still perfect for just about anything, given enough RAM. The one thing that they can't do well is 3d graphics, due to the weak FPU. However, if you can offload *all* graphics work to the video card, then you could still use the same CPU and enjoy much better graphics. That is what 3d accelerators did in the first place, and NVidia has taken it a step further.
Suppose I buy a kick-ass gaming system now. A year from now it will no longer cut it for the newest games, but will still be perfect for general use. At that point, I'd much rather spend $300 on a new video card that does all the graphics then $150 on a cheaper card + $500 on the new CPU + board...
actually, 3dfx cards can only do 16 bit color, not 24 bit.
The post above explains why the Mindcraft's bechmarks do not reflect real-world performance. Moderate it up!
Sorry folks, but the judge did not address this issue at all in the FoF. I remember reading about ever-changing APIs and IBM trying to catch up, but nowhere did it say that some APIs are closed (a large number in fact). So, given that, I don't see the judge dering MS to open up their APIs an keep thenm that way.
OK This is really lame. I hope next time Rob & Co. will actually check the validity of the article before posting it. It's already been covered before:
1. They tested on a machine with 4 100BaseT betwork cards. Show me a web server that has 4 * 100 Mbits/s bandwidth and uses it to serve static content.
2. Even on a file server it is extremely unlikely that it would have 4 network cards.
3. Contrary to what the tests show, Linux does not have pathetic scalability. Just do the same test with one 100baseT network card and notice the difference. Also, if you want to test real-world performance, you got to test dynamic content. C't did just that and Linux came out on top.
A lot of people are saying the same thing: "wait for XFree 4.0". I've been hearing it for over a year. So, the question is: when?
So when will we see a package for Debian 2.1?
So will the raw filesystem support be included in 2.4.0? This would sure be very useful for Oracle and any other DB for that matter. Also, will Linux finally suport > 1 Gig of RAM on Alpha?
this is hilarious!
American society promotes enough waste as it is. Please, let the insanity stop!
'nuff said
I seem to recall the story on /. that Packet Storm is now hosted somewhere else and they were able to retrieve all the data. Can somebody confirm/deny that please?
I am running Slink with kernel 2.2.9 and have absolutely no problems
Non-journalling file system (a la ext2, fat, etc. ) must be properly unmounted on shutdown. If it's not unmounted cleanly, it needs to be checked for errors, since it has no idea what happened just before the crash/power failure/whatever.
Journalling file system keeps track of all the changes as they occur. So, even if it's not unmounted before shutdown, it can easily determine what was modified and deal with it as appropriate. So, for example, if you kick a power cord by accident, you no longer need to wait for 5 minutes while fsck scans the file system.
High-end data warehouses have file systems measured in terabytes. You *definitely* don't want to wait for fsck there...
so how is this "high-end" card different from GeForce? Is GeForce not high-end any more? And what exactly is meant by "workstation-class"?
Can somebody please explain in detail how the whole DVD encryption works?
Can't you just duplicate the encrypted DVD data using a DVD-R? You'd be able to get the exact replica of the original, and play it in any DVD player, without the need to decrypt it first. Or am I wrong?
Now the big question is -- where the hell did they get a PIII CPU with a multiplier of 7.5? Coppermine 733 has bus speed 133 and multiplier 5.5. Since the multipliers are locked, there is no way to change them. The PIII would have to work at 750MHz (100MHz bus) to have a multiplier of 7.5, but such CPU does not exist. The only CPU that has a multiplier of 7.5 is Celeron 500.
So does that mean it's a hoax?
Uhhm... hello? Do you even know what you're talking about??? All motherboard makers use Intel chipsets in their boards. Intel is the only supplier of the BX chipsets. If you are not convinced, read up about the artificial BX chipset shortage. This story appeared everywhere. And Tom's Hardware and The Register provided the explanation of what was happening...