oh wait they're not. and there isn't *much* technical difference, they run (almost) all the same software on (almost) all the same hardware, why isn't everyone running around raving on BSD?
Personally I couldn't care less whether my software was BSD or GPL, I still get the source, I can change whatever I want, I can even relicense BSD code as GPL.
[sarcasm]And I've seen soo many OEM binary drivers for OpenBSD[/sarcasm] not!
I have bought a $6k box for work to run xen. The results were incredibly disappointing. The para-virtualization is lightning quick, but the HVM is crap.
GFX: The Graphics emulation is incredibly slow (on par with Qemu some of the time, other times slower). VNC display driver has serious mouse issues (this could be solved by using a touch screen emulation, but I don't believe there is one yet.
Sound: Not tested. it's a server after all.
Network: Only emulates PCnet32 and NE2000PCI NIC's, for some reason rightly or wrongly it enforces 10Mbps data rates, same as real cards. Not very useful for virtualizing a Windows server. This is pretty much the biggest killer.
HDD: Performance sucks. this isn't so much of an issue as you can just install an iSCSI initiator in the HVM and connect it directly to your SAN.
So while I *really* want to use Xen, it looks like I'm going to have to go back to the current way we're doing things (VMWare on Linux).
Oh, and I can't run VMWare on Xen outside an HVM, or inside one because of the above performance issues.
Ok, so many "Blue Pill" fanboys (wtf?), have completely missed this. I was sceptical so I hauled out the AMD Architechture Programmer's Manual, and it clearly states on Page 440 that VMRUN may only be executed in CPL-0. Hence the only way "Blue Pill" can be loaded is if the kernel is compromised, in which case you're hosed anyway.
Now assuming Blue Pill can load itself from CPL-3, it indicates that the current AMD64 proccessor's incorrectly implement SVM, in which case this will not work on later processor's. This has happened before, for example the Pentium Crashnow instruction which caused an instant reboot regardless of CPL.
Hmm, on my landline (in NZ) you get a couple of seconds of silence and then a "doot-silence-doot-silence", perhaps he is talking about this. It's not really a dial tone since you can't dial without first hanging up (I think it's called a disconnect tone).
But High-Octane gas does have a higher flash-temperature and burns slower, which reduces knock, which in turn reduces cam, valve and bearing wear, which means that that $150K isn't going to require a $40K engine rebuild because a valve fractured and destroyed the cylinder lining of that purty V12.
Option 2 is the only reasonable option, as there is no Ati or Nvidia drivers for Linux/PPC (last time I checked), and as Blender is highly GPU intensive, you aren't going to have much luck running it without hardware support, which also eliminates using Virtual PC (which would be dog slow even if it did have Accelerated OpenGL (Does it?)).
Option 4 is not an option because people who complain about things they could fix themselves, especially when they're expecting something for nothing are dicks.
On the subject of wacky waving inflatable arm men, I saw one the other day outside a shop. They are so cool, where do I buy one? unfortunately in NZ we don't have ad's for them on tv, but I want one so bad.
My bad, I was meaning ATM vs. Ethernet, not ATM vs. IP. and yes I did mean jitter, and I was also meaning to compare equivalent speed networks.
I haven't actually worked with ATM. From what I've read I understand that an ATM switch reads the 6 byte address from the frame and then starts writing it out again to the next switch, so shouldn't the latency be equal to (48 bits / bitrate) per switch. Please correct me if I've got this entirely wrong.
You mean 33.33333333.... cm. Hardly a nice answer. No. I mean 33 and one third cm or 333mm (3s.f.). How many thou is a third of an inch? 333thou (3s.f.).
I prefer to keep numbers in fractional and sums of roots form until I actually need to measure something. Keeps Accuracy. Surely anyone who passed high-school geometry knows how to add fractions and roots.
Palms aren't a standard of measurement I've ever heard of. There are 49.5 hands in a rod, but hands and rods aren't used to measure the same sort of thing, so it's not useful. Hands are, well, handy for measuring the height of a horse, while a rod is a quick way to find the size of your house (or yard, if it's small).
Why have multiple units for the same thing (distance)? It is much easier to have one unit and scale it with a quantifier (M, G, m, c, etc.).
If that was ever useful I'd have memorized 63360 inches in a mile.
The fact that I don't need to memorize how many cm to a km, or how to convert from distance to volume is an obvious advantage of the metric system.
In the *far* more likely event that you didn't need 5 significant figures of accuracy, a furlong is 1000 links, and a link is real close to 8 inches, so a furlong/5 is about 160 inches and a miles/5 is about 12800 inches - quick and easy to do in your head. Not as easy to do as say, 10968mm -> 10.968m, though, or 4.678m^3 -> 4678l. Rounding inaccuracies are what cause space shuttles to crash and trains to derail. "is about" != "is equal".
A short ton of water is 250 gallons (long tons are a British thing - I won't claim that calling 120 pounds a hundredweight makes any kind of sense), as a "pint's a pound the world round".
Having to memorize intersection points between scales is a clear flaw in the imperial system.
And so on.
I prefer not needing a book or calculator to do simple physics.
The unit of mass is a slug, by the way, which should be the mass of 4 gallons, but is cheated to 32.1740486 pounds to make physisists happier when slapping probes into Mars.
Another flaw in the imperial system.
An acre is a rectangle bounded by a chain and a furlong. 1000 links = 10 chains = 1 furlong = 1/8 mile. A square furlong is 10 acres, and a section (square mile) is obviously 640 acres. Easy as pie. A square meter is a square meter. 10000 square meter's (called a hectare in britain) is 100m x 100m or 50m x 200m. (1km)^2 == 1Mm^2.
The metric system is easy to work out with numbers in the abstract. Well, guess what, *any* system of measuement is *trivial* to work out in the abstract. Google calulator wil tell you the speed of light in furlongs per fortnight intantly (go ahead, try it).
The metric system is easy to work with. The imperial system is somewhat easy to work with if you have all the conversions and scale intersections memorised or accessible.
But do this: take a jug with a liter of water and pour out a decilitre without a measuring device. Hard to work with. Easy enough with two jugs to find a half gallon, then a quart, then a pint.
I really do hope you're not proposing to empty half a jug multiple times to get to a pint. While pouring half a gallon out, will probably get you a *reasonably* accurate half gallon, repeat it several times and you aren't going to have something close to accurate. I could do the same by pouring half out three times to *theoretically* get 125ml, but if I was to then pour it into a measuring flask it isn't going to be 125ml.
Divide a mile by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, or 12 and you have an integral number of feet. The whole yards/feet thing is especially handy for dividing by 3, which one often need to do by measuring as it's hard to do with a rope. Dividing by 2 repeatedly is really easy to do without a measure of any kind, whether distance or volume. An illeterate person with no math skills can easily divide a gallon into pints!
Ok really super smart guy, how many palms are in a US rod? How many inches are in a fifth of a mile? How many gallons in a tonne of water? How many cubic feet is a tonne of steel? How many cubic inches in a cubic yard? And how on earth do you do physics when you have no unit of mass? Our numeral system uses 10 (or 16), what factoral increment does the imperial system use? Oh it changes for every unit, that's really smart!
Well maybe not in market share, but certainly in performance and functionality.
As for Exchange, I can't think of anything that is OSS. I hear Groupwise and Lotus Notes are good, but as I haven't used either, I can't guarantee that they are any good. Mind you I've never used Exchange, but I've used MS Outlook (Outlaw?), and that was utter rubbish, so who knows.
Possibly because larger capacity drives are faster? If you have two identical drives except for capacity, the one with more sectors per track will have a higher data transfer rate because more sectors move past the head in a rotation.
BTW, Raid 0?? Why not just let the two drives work as seperate drives? Scared the users would be confused by having a "C:" and a "D:" hard drive? Raid 0 == twice the likelyhood of failure.
Performance you fuck head! Anyone that doesn't back up their laptop is a fucktard! What if you drop it or have it stolen/lose it. Why would you even care about reliability on a laptop, they're fucking useless when their warranty runs out, so as long as it runs for 3 years, then it's all good, and if it doesn't then get it replaced.
I second this, and also wish sites would degrade gracefully for lack of other tech such as Java, I mean I can't even get Java for sparc/linux (WTF?).
And yes I realise most people use intel machines running windows, and that probably less than.1% of people run linux for sparc, but the whole friggin' point of www and w3c standards is that sites should be viewable regardless of the browser/os/whatever.
Also WTF doesn't youtube etal. allow you to download the videos. many people (not me) don't have access to internet with enough bandwidth to stream video.
I guess I just havce to accept that people are really stupid, and will use whatever their friends use even if it doesn't work.
[quote] AFAIK, wireless doesn't consistantly support 100Mbps compared to local Ethernet. Usually, I get around 54Mbps, or possibly 10 Mbps on a weak signal.
That's why you still see store-and-forward - Wireless and wired networks are different speeds. [/quote]
uh, wireless can't be patched into an ethernet segment, an AP is a router, or at the very least a bridge, and generally has a 100Mbit Ethernet interface. that is not the same thing as patching 100M into a Gigabit Switch. But yes, wireless AP's should be on a different segment anyway (and probably be behind a firewall?).
OK, most everyone has missed the point here. CMYK is important because two different printers will produce different output from the same image regardless of the colour-space used. The reason to use CMYK is to have control over the individual channels so that you can correct for the difference's between printers. The same goes for monitors unless they are calibrated monitors which are uber pricey, the color will be different (different phosphors, different channel brightnesss,etc).
Anyhow the reason CMYK is important is to correct the individual channel's rather than "tweak and praying" with RGB and hoping it comes out right. Now ideally a colour-profile would correct everything, but often, especially with illustrations it is important that you don't have just a little of one colour coming through. For example a newspaper has the colour dots offset slightly and it's better to have an illustration a slightly different colour, than have little speckles visible because it's not quite the yellow that the printer uses. For photos it is not quite so important, and for web design it is entirely irrelevant.
And that example from User Friendly is stupid since UF is an online cartoon and doesn't need colour correction.
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And that must be why everyone is running BSD?
oh wait they're not. and there isn't *much* technical difference, they run (almost) all the same software on (almost) all the same hardware, why isn't everyone running around raving on BSD?
Personally I couldn't care less whether my software was BSD or GPL, I still get the source, I can change whatever I want, I can even relicense BSD code as GPL.
[sarcasm]And I've seen soo many OEM binary drivers for OpenBSD[/sarcasm] not!
Apologies in advance...
OMG PONIES!!!
YAY FOR PONIES, JUST YAY!
sorry couldn't resist, it's just that any reference to ponies kicks it off...
I have bought a $6k box for work to run xen. The results were incredibly disappointing. The para-virtualization is lightning quick, but the HVM is crap.
GFX: The Graphics emulation is incredibly slow (on par with Qemu some of the time, other times slower). VNC display driver has serious mouse issues (this could be solved by using a touch screen emulation, but I don't believe there is one yet.
Sound: Not tested. it's a server after all.
Network: Only emulates PCnet32 and NE2000PCI NIC's, for some reason rightly or wrongly it enforces 10Mbps data rates, same as real cards. Not very useful for virtualizing a Windows server. This is pretty much the biggest killer.
HDD: Performance sucks. this isn't so much of an issue as you can just install an iSCSI initiator in the HVM and connect it directly to your SAN.
So while I *really* want to use Xen, it looks like I'm going to have to go back to the current way we're doing things (VMWare on Linux).
Oh, and I can't run VMWare on Xen outside an HVM, or inside one because of the above performance issues.
Ok, so many "Blue Pill" fanboys (wtf?), have completely missed this. I was sceptical so I hauled out the AMD Architechture Programmer's Manual, and it clearly states on Page 440 that VMRUN may only be executed in CPL-0. Hence the only way "Blue Pill" can be loaded is if the kernel is compromised, in which case you're hosed anyway.
Now assuming Blue Pill can load itself from CPL-3, it indicates that the current AMD64 proccessor's incorrectly implement SVM, in which case this will not work on later processor's. This has happened before, for example the Pentium Crashnow instruction which caused an instant reboot regardless of CPL.
Hmm, on my landline (in NZ) you get a couple of seconds of silence and then a "doot-silence-doot-silence", perhaps he is talking about this. It's not really a dial tone since you can't dial without first hanging up (I think it's called a disconnect tone).
Um, assuming he isn't going down for life (or death?), then why throw away the key? How will you get him out again? An angle grinder?
Oh like selinux? or mvs(z/os?)? OpenBSD and FreeBSD probably have something too, but I can't be bothered thinking.
But High-Octane gas does have a higher flash-temperature and burns slower, which reduces knock, which in turn reduces cam, valve and bearing wear, which means that that $150K isn't going to require a $40K engine rebuild because a valve fractured and destroyed the cylinder lining of that purty V12.
Option 2 is the only reasonable option, as there is no Ati or Nvidia drivers for Linux/PPC (last time I checked), and as Blender is highly GPU intensive, you aren't going to have much luck running it without hardware support, which also eliminates using Virtual PC (which would be dog slow even if it did have Accelerated OpenGL (Does it?)).
Option 4 is not an option because people who complain about things they could fix themselves, especially when they're expecting something for nothing are dicks.
On the subject of wacky waving inflatable arm men, I saw one the other day outside a shop. They are so cool, where do I buy one? unfortunately in NZ we don't have ad's for them on tv, but I want one so bad.
No because people clueless enough to be tricked by phishing scams would be too clueless to verify signatures.
My bad, I was meaning ATM vs. Ethernet, not ATM vs. IP. and yes I did mean jitter, and I was also meaning to compare equivalent speed networks.
I haven't actually worked with ATM. From what I've read I understand that an ATM switch reads the 6 byte address from the frame and then starts writing it out again to the next switch, so shouldn't the latency be equal to (48 bits / bitrate) per switch. Please correct me if I've got this entirely wrong.
You mean 33.33333333.... cm. Hardly a nice answer.
No. I mean 33 and one third cm or 333mm (3s.f.). How many thou is a third of an inch? 333thou (3s.f.).
I prefer to keep numbers in fractional and sums of roots form until I actually need to measure something. Keeps Accuracy. Surely anyone who passed high-school geometry knows how to add fractions and roots.
Palms aren't a standard of measurement I've ever heard of. There are 49.5 hands in a rod, but hands and rods aren't used to measure the same sort of thing, so it's not useful. Hands are, well, handy for measuring the height of a horse, while a rod is a quick way to find the size of your house (or yard, if it's small).
Why have multiple units for the same thing (distance)? It is much easier to have one unit and scale it with a quantifier (M, G, m, c, etc.).
If that was ever useful I'd have memorized 63360 inches in a mile.
The fact that I don't need to memorize how many cm to a km, or how to convert from distance to volume is an obvious advantage of the metric system.
In the *far* more likely event that you didn't need 5 significant figures of accuracy, a furlong is 1000 links, and a link is real close to 8 inches, so a furlong/5 is about 160 inches and a miles/5 is about 12800 inches - quick and easy to do in your head.
Not as easy to do as say, 10968mm -> 10.968m, though, or 4.678m^3 -> 4678l.
Rounding inaccuracies are what cause space shuttles to crash and trains to derail. "is about" != "is equal".
A short ton of water is 250 gallons (long tons are a British thing - I won't claim that calling 120 pounds a hundredweight makes any kind of sense), as a "pint's a pound the world round".
Having to memorize intersection points between scales is a clear flaw in the imperial system.
And so on.
I prefer not needing a book or calculator to do simple physics.
The unit of mass is a slug, by the way, which should be the mass of 4 gallons, but is cheated to 32.1740486 pounds to make physisists happier when slapping probes into Mars.
Another flaw in the imperial system.
An acre is a rectangle bounded by a chain and a furlong. 1000 links = 10 chains = 1 furlong = 1/8 mile. A square furlong is 10 acres, and a section (square mile) is obviously 640 acres. Easy as pie.
A square meter is a square meter. 10000 square meter's (called a hectare in britain) is 100m x 100m or 50m x 200m.
(1km)^2 == 1Mm^2.
The metric system is easy to work out with numbers in the abstract. Well, guess what, *any* system of measuement is *trivial* to work out in the abstract. Google calulator wil tell you the speed of light in furlongs per fortnight intantly (go ahead, try it).
The metric system is easy to work with. The imperial system is somewhat easy to work with if you have all the conversions and scale intersections memorised or accessible.
But do this: take a jug with a liter of water and pour out a decilitre without a measuring device. Hard to work with. Easy enough with two jugs to find a half gallon, then a quart, then a pint.
I really do hope you're not proposing to empty half a jug multiple times to get to a pint. While pouring half a gallon out, will probably get you a *reasonably* accurate half gallon, repeat it several times and you aren't going to have something close to accurate. I could do the same by pouring half out three times to *theoretically* get 125ml, but if I was to then pour it into a measuring flask it isn't going to be 125ml.
Divide a mile by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, or 12 and you have an integral number of feet. The whole yards/feet thing is especially handy for dividing by 3, which one often need to do by measuring as it's hard to do with a rope. Dividing by 2 repeatedly is really easy to do without a measure of any kind, whether distance or volume. An illeterate person with no math skills can easily divide a gallon into pints!
Are rulers and tape me
33 and 1/3 cm's.
Ok really super smart guy, how many palms are in a US rod?
How many inches are in a fifth of a mile?
How many gallons in a tonne of water?
How many cubic feet is a tonne of steel?
How many cubic inches in a cubic yard?
And how on earth do you do physics when you have no unit of mass?
Our numeral system uses 10 (or 16), what factoral increment does the imperial system use? Oh it changes for every unit, that's really smart!
I thought kerberos+OpenLDAP already killed AD.
Well maybe not in market share, but certainly in performance and functionality.
As for Exchange, I can't think of anything that is OSS. I hear Groupwise and Lotus Notes are good, but as I haven't used either, I can't guarantee that they are any good. Mind you I've never used Exchange, but I've used MS Outlook (Outlaw?), and that was utter rubbish, so who knows.
Yes, but ATM kicks the shit out of IP for latency.
Possibly because larger capacity drives are faster? If you have two identical drives except for capacity, the one with more sectors per track will have a higher data transfer rate because more sectors move past the head in a rotation.
BTW, Raid 0?? Why not just let the two drives work as seperate drives? Scared the users would be confused by having a "C:" and a "D:" hard drive? Raid 0 == twice the likelyhood of failure.
Performance you fuck head! Anyone that doesn't back up their laptop is a fucktard! What if you drop it or have it stolen/lose it. Why would you even care about reliability on a laptop, they're fucking useless when their warranty runs out, so as long as it runs for 3 years, then it's all good, and if it doesn't then get it replaced.
Now fuck off you stupid cunt.
It also only exists on two platforms, and uses a cruddy codec.
I second this, and also wish sites would degrade gracefully for lack of other tech such as Java, I mean I can't even get Java for sparc/linux (WTF?).
.1% of people run linux for sparc, but the whole friggin' point of www and w3c standards is that sites should be viewable regardless of the browser/os/whatever.
And yes I realise most people use intel machines running windows, and that probably less than
Also WTF doesn't youtube etal. allow you to download the videos. many people (not me) don't have access to internet with enough bandwidth to stream video.
I guess I just havce to accept that people are really stupid, and will use whatever their friends use even if it doesn't work.
[quote]
AFAIK, wireless doesn't consistantly support 100Mbps compared to local Ethernet. Usually, I get around 54Mbps, or possibly 10 Mbps on a weak signal.
That's why you still see store-and-forward - Wireless and wired networks are different speeds.
[/quote]
uh, wireless can't be patched into an ethernet segment, an AP is a router, or at the very least a bridge, and generally has a 100Mbit Ethernet interface. that is not the same thing as patching 100M into a Gigabit Switch. But yes, wireless AP's should be on a different segment anyway (and probably be behind a firewall?).
Maybe it was intentional, but you spelt grammar and spelling wrong.
"Garantee" is such a strong word that it doesn't even exist.
Perhaps you mean guarantee?
Sorry to be such a spelling Nazi, but since you were so assertive, I figured you might as well spell it right.
OK, most everyone has missed the point here. CMYK is important because two different printers will produce different output from the same image regardless of the colour-space used. The reason to use CMYK is to have control over the individual channels so that you can correct for the difference's between printers. The same goes for monitors unless they are calibrated monitors which are uber pricey, the color will be different (different phosphors, different channel brightnesss,etc).
Anyhow the reason CMYK is important is to correct the individual channel's rather than "tweak and praying" with RGB and hoping it comes out right. Now ideally a colour-profile would correct everything, but often, especially with illustrations it is important that you don't have just a little of one colour coming through. For example a newspaper has the colour dots offset slightly and it's better to have an illustration a slightly different colour, than have little speckles visible because it's not quite the yellow that the printer uses. For photos it is not quite so important, and for web design it is entirely irrelevant.
And that example from User Friendly is stupid since UF is an online cartoon and doesn't need colour correction.
Just to clarify, I think bush and co intended for the price of oil to increase. Pretty obvious considering how much shares Bush owns.