I recognize that my requirements are contradictory. However... I require that the server be available pretty much all the the time and for the most part it is not connected to mains power. It's only sometimes that a few workstations connect to it via both wired and wireless network and want to transfer multiple gigabytes of data in short order.
I also recognize that other solutions may offer a better alternative but felt that those were no really on topic. If it can be done at 2 watts great otherwise I'll windup doing it at 12 or 15 or even 40. It also occurs to me that the chipsets are lagging pretty far behind the CPUs.
This is what happens when I post in meetings. Now to clarify:
These boards described have the intel GMA950 (which as far as I know isn't meant to be a low power device). I don't really get that... some super efficient low power chip, with a desktop chipset. I would have expected them to use some laptop or MID chipset, however owing to the multitude of Intel chipsets I don't really know which one that would be.
Personally I would be happiest with a micro watt 2D VGA sort of device.
Now as far as PCIe goes... I don't have a specific need already but all the chipsets have it and the PCIe (8x) can be used for things that USB can't.
And I had assumed USB as every device seems to come with oodles of them now days anyway.
No... I don't really get mating a 2 watt processor (which I want) with a inefficient 3D video chip (which I do not want). I do recognize that what I want network & storage wise is probably a tiny fraction of the atom market but I still hold out hope that some more enthusiastic slashdot reader will jump in and link to the board I want buy. It certainly has happened before... more than once.
BTW: VW is claiming they will be making their "1 Liter Car" in 2010... 1 liter per 100km is just over 235 MPG. I plan to buy one. I think they're very cool and if you haven't seen it you should check it out
Someone wake me up when theyâ(TM)re selling a board which has a few GigE network ports (and can really saturate them), at least 4 SATA II ports, and one PCIe Slot. I don't really want some old inefficient 3D video accelerator either.
The crypto crowd is also very enthusiastic about using prizes and contests to develop new things. But I have no idea what that may suggest about the similarity of Rocket Science and Cryptography.
It's more like a *nix version increase than an MS service pack... sort of. Apple uses a lot of open source BSD stuff... so when they update all that stuff it has whatever the open source crowd has done, plus whatever Apple decides to do with it. I recall some new features in the 10.4 succession... so I guess 10.5.3 might contain some new features but I wouldn't hope for anything earth shattering (like ZFS). I truly wish they would fix the Bluetooth audio headphone thing but I suppose it isn't priority.
People still have dial up? I expect that Apple would ship disks on request but I wouldn't expect them for free. I've never had Apple refuse a reasonable service request but I've never asked for that. Also I'll bet you can download a PPC or X86 (or a version for a specific sort of Mac like my cube) which is substantially smaller. That universal binary thing is really, really nice (my 8 core mac pro can boot from the same hard drive as my Quad PPC G5 and my PPC G4 Cube) but it makes things twice as large.
I would say that sane Mac users will ignore this news and wait until the software update app on their Mac alerts them. Really smart users will postpone that for while to see if there are a rash of catastrophes caused by the update⦠even if there is a bug fix or update they are interested in.
I haven't done it in many, many years but you can rent a gas powered trencher for not a lot and and do that in an afternoon. You do need a vehicle with a trailer hitch though.
A mammal is closer to God than a fish I think that is a heresy from the middle ages. I swear I have read that debate somewhere else. But I don't remember where. Maybe as a stepping stone to some other concept... and that was the heresy.
Any way, itâ(TM)s nothing new.
BTW I read this whole thread... your assertions are interesting but I'm not buying any of it.
Access? You're lucky those folks in my company uses Excel for their databases and labview for hardware control and DAQ... It's like watching a train wreck on herion.
Hell, VLC has troubles with 1080p H.264 MKV on my Dual Quad 3.2Ghz Early 2008 Mac Pro. Somehow I'm thinking this isn't lack of compute power issue but rather the decoder just sucking issue.
Yes, but they are a DIN norm. Unfortunately American & British matchboxes are entirely different sizes and are not standards... which is why they keeping using the old standards of bread boxes, Rhode Islands, and Libraries of Congress. Why the hell The Register is using the non standard size of a "shoe box" is beyond me... I guess it just goes to show their shoddy journalism.
They can pursue their legal actions with honesty & dignity, while complying with rules of law. They could have kept up with technology. They can recognize that their business model is antiquated. They can stop pimping crappy formulaic music and over sexualized mouthpieces. They can stop the loudness arms race. They can produce a product worth buying, in a form worth buying. They can replace my damaged media for a nominal and fair price.
Oh fuck it.. who am I fooling. As long as the RIAA is around they will never do these things and I will continue to pirate my content. As far as I am concerned they can go out of business, all of them, and the faster the better.
This week I am watching the TV series "Jazz" (2001) it's 10, 118 minute episodes (which I got via Bittorrent) and I've downloaded music from about 30 different artists presented in the series (also via Bittorrent). Right now I am listening to Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Beiderbecke and very much enjoying it. There is no way I would have ever heard of these people or the music if paid attention to the RIAA. I would recommend that everyone who has even a passing interest in Jazz, see the films⦠you are bound to find a Jazz style you like that you have never heard.
You have to know if the Feds are asking, it's because they are ready are doing.
Which also means they never stopped the Total Information Awareness (TIA) Program or Echelon, the NSA worldwide digital interception program or Carnivore, the FBI US digital interception program.
Man, I bet they've got petabytes of freaky porn by now.
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I didn't mean to be funny I just misspelled it. I meant "pegasos" as in: www.pegasosppc.com
I recognize that my requirements are contradictory. However... I require that the server be available pretty much all the the time and for the most part it is not connected to mains power. It's only sometimes that a few workstations connect to it via both wired and wireless network and want to transfer multiple gigabytes of data in short order.
I also recognize that other solutions may offer a better alternative but felt that those were no really on topic. If it can be done at 2 watts great otherwise I'll windup doing it at 12 or 15 or even 40. It also occurs to me that the chipsets are lagging pretty far behind the CPUs.
I have now thought of what I need the PCIe (8X) slot for. the â500, 5TB Solid State device that will soon plug into it.
Core2 isn't doing 2 watts... yet.
but I'll probably windup with something similar.
This is what happens when I post in meetings. Now to clarify:
These boards described have the intel GMA950 (which as far as I know isn't meant to be a low power device). I don't really get that... some super efficient low power chip, with a desktop chipset. I would have expected them to use some laptop or MID chipset, however owing to the multitude of Intel chipsets I don't really know which one that would be.
Personally I would be happiest with a micro watt 2D VGA sort of device.
Now as far as PCIe goes... I don't have a specific need already but all the chipsets have it and the PCIe (8x) can be used for things that USB can't.
And I had assumed USB as every device seems to come with oodles of them now days anyway.
No... I don't really get mating a 2 watt processor (which I want) with a inefficient 3D video chip (which I do not want). I do recognize that what I want network & storage wise is probably a tiny fraction of the atom market but I still hold out hope that some more enthusiastic slashdot reader will jump in and link to the board I want buy. It certainly has happened before... more than once.
BTW: VW is claiming they will be making their "1 Liter Car" in 2010... 1 liter per 100km is just over 235 MPG. I plan to buy one. I think they're very cool and if you haven't seen it you should check it out
As I understand things currently VIA doesn't have something that has a few GigE ports and will honestly saturate them.
Maybe someone will prove me wrong!?
I *don't* want some old inefficient 3D video accelerator! A console is all I need!
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Someone wake me up when theyâ(TM)re selling a board which has a few GigE network ports (and can really saturate them), at least 4 SATA II ports, and one PCIe Slot. I don't really want some old inefficient 3D video accelerator either.
The crypto crowd is also very enthusiastic about using prizes and contests to develop new things. But I have no idea what that may suggest about the similarity of Rocket Science and Cryptography.
It's more like a *nix version increase than an MS service pack... sort of. Apple uses a lot of open source BSD stuff... so when they update all that stuff it has whatever the open source crowd has done, plus whatever Apple decides to do with it. I recall some new features in the 10.4 succession... so I guess 10.5.3 might contain some new features but I wouldn't hope for anything earth shattering (like ZFS). I truly wish they would fix the Bluetooth audio headphone thing but I suppose it isn't priority.
People still have dial up? I expect that Apple would ship disks on request but I wouldn't expect them for free. I've never had Apple refuse a reasonable service request but I've never asked for that. Also I'll bet you can download a PPC or X86 (or a version for a specific sort of Mac like my cube) which is substantially smaller. That universal binary thing is really, really nice (my 8 core mac pro can boot from the same hard drive as my Quad PPC G5 and my PPC G4 Cube) but it makes things twice as large.
I would say that sane Mac users will ignore this news and wait until the software update app on their Mac alerts them. Really smart users will postpone that for while to see if there are a rash of catastrophes caused by the update⦠even if there is a bug fix or update they are interested in.
I haven't done it in many, many years but you can rent a gas powered trencher for not a lot and and do that in an afternoon. You do need a vehicle with a trailer hitch though.
Yes it is fair.
Maybe as a stepping stone to some other concept... and that was the heresy.
Any way, itâ(TM)s nothing new.
BTW I read this whole thread... your assertions are interesting but I'm not buying any of it.
Access? You're lucky those folks in my company uses Excel for their databases and labview for hardware control and DAQ... It's like watching a train wreck on herion.
Iâ(TM)m not a serious gamer at all but without that duct tape mod I found the game virtually unplayable.
As I understand annealing it removes internal stresses created by uneven heating and cooling. This process smoothes etching or deposition defects.
Hell, VLC has troubles with 1080p H.264 MKV on my Dual Quad 3.2Ghz Early 2008 Mac Pro. Somehow I'm thinking this isn't lack of compute power issue but rather the decoder just sucking issue.
I was under the impression that optimal bus design used to different but that was sort of going away with the move to multi core designs.
Yes, but they are a DIN norm. Unfortunately American & British matchboxes are entirely different sizes and are not standards... which is why they keeping using the old standards of bread boxes, Rhode Islands, and Libraries of Congress. Why the hell The Register is using the non standard size of a "shoe box" is beyond me... I guess it just goes to show their shoddy journalism.
What can they do?
They can pursue their legal actions with honesty & dignity, while complying with rules of law. They could have kept up with technology. They can recognize that their business model is antiquated. They can stop pimping crappy formulaic music and over sexualized mouthpieces. They can stop the loudness arms race. They can produce a product worth buying, in a form worth buying. They can replace my damaged media for a nominal and fair price.
Oh fuck it.. who am I fooling. As long as the RIAA is around they will never do these things and I will continue to pirate my content. As far as I am concerned they can go out of business, all of them, and the faster the better.
This week I am watching the TV series "Jazz" (2001) it's 10, 118 minute episodes (which I got via Bittorrent) and I've downloaded music from about 30 different artists presented in the series (also via Bittorrent). Right now I am listening to Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Beiderbecke and very much enjoying it. There is no way I would have ever heard of these people or the music if paid attention to the RIAA. I would recommend that everyone who has even a passing interest in Jazz, see the films⦠you are bound to find a Jazz style you like that you have never heard.
The first time through that comment I read it as "One of the nicest things I find about studying in Flatland".
Which made wonder what their physics lectures were like.
It is my sincere belief and hope that we are far closer to ubiquitous ad hock wireless mesh networking than most people recognize.
This sort of shit just brings it closer.
You have to know if the Feds are asking, it's because they are ready are doing.
Which also means they never stopped the Total Information Awareness (TIA) Program or Echelon, the NSA worldwide digital interception program or Carnivore, the FBI US digital interception program.
Man, I bet they've got petabytes of freaky porn by now.