There has been great discussion within the "SGI camp" about SGI's abandonment of MIPS and adoptions of x86; many people being disheartened by this. With the new release of this machine, I think it will make many people take a second glance at SGI before choosing an x86-based Linux farm.
Why do people choose SGI? Because with SGI you get a workstation that was designed for Unix; a real Unix workstation. It's an all in one package-- hardware, software, support. It's not some Linux-based kludge.
Look at Apple -- they are nearly identically copying the SGI business model with the release of OSX: an all-encompassing unix workstation solution targetted towards content creation.
While I only own a few less powerful R4400s and R4600s, I believe the R10000 based SGI machines (Purple Indigo2s) are 64 bit... and those were released 8 or 10 years ago-- making moot of your last point. Plus, anyone with any hardware experience outside the x86 realm will note that you are falling into the 'megahertz myth.' Alphas are great and all, but they are being phased out, even though megahertz-per-megahertz they are probably 2x-3x faster than x86 processors.
There has already been research into the most frequent keys pressed, etc.
Hence the advent of the Dvorak keyboard. The mose frequent keys are on home row. People who have learned to use the Dvorak keyboard are faster typists, and more accurate to boot.
You can set up any normal keyboard to use Dvorak .
Pff, and everyone said finding a card reader/writer would be expensive. If this is a magstripe reader/writer like it says it is, $200 and a few hours of programming some software and you are set.
A friend of mine used to be a manager at the local UPS depot in Addison, Illinois. Seems the UPS workers have a little "holiday" called "Fuck Fragile Fridays"
The SPEC benchmarks don't necessarily show the true power of CPUs... for years, SGI was proverbialy miles behind the competition as far as the SPEC benchmarks went on their MIPS cpus. Anyone who owns a SGI machine will tell you that the SPEC scores aren't relative to the performance you get out of the machines.
Then again, SGI is swirling down the drain rather quickly, so take it with a grain of salt..
Another thought I had: Isn't AMD supporting their own "enemy" by releasing chips that sound like they have a higher clock speed? In a way, couldn't this just further the consumer confusion? Who is to say that Intel won't release a Pentium 5 3000 down the road? Just because AMD is being "fair" and gauging their performance against intel's chips doesn't mean other companies won't abuse the system.
Last time I checked, cdrom.com, one of, if not the busiest file sites on the net ran FreeBSD. And, if I recall correctly, it can handle 3600 simultaneous users with ease.
Then again, what else would you expect from a site whose very foundation is built upon neo-linux-zealotism?
Brings to mind a situation that happened in the UO community a while back. An Origin employee at the time used his job's status as a Game Master to create thousands of dollars worth of items and fence them off on eBay.
As a seller of items, I see no problems with people buying them. Like a few previous posters have stated: if it makes you happy, more power too it. So.. I sell these items. Now will you judge me with what I do with my money? Why don't you just judge everyone who doesn't spend money like you do-- what about smokers? Not only are they spending lots of money yearly, they are spending it on something that could kill them.
People spend their money for two things: survival and enjoyment. And as long as people can buy their way to happiness (however short lived it may be) they will do so.
Now, if you will excuse me, I need to go buy a sack of dank weed with the money I made formerly selling Towers in UO, and the money I continue to make with my high level sorceress on Diablo II.
All of you who are spouting out "let's tunnel everything through ssl/ssh" obviously don't know too much about the real invulnerabilities out there. I hate to break it to all of you OpenBSD/ssh zealots out there, but ssh isn't secure. Anyone who has ever toyed with dsniff (www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff) will easily tell you that it is possible (via man in the middle attacks) to monitor/kill/hijack ssh connections. It takes about 1 minute on FreeBSD to arp-spoof the network's gateway and seamlessly m onitor every packet going through it.
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So, why hasn't the GPL been successfully challenged yet?
Simple: none of the software published under it is worth fighting for.
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Note.. they are going after Unix, not Linux.
I guess they know who they should really be threatened by.
Go ahead! Mod this one down!
Hmm, robots for barmaids? I guess that puts hitting on the waitress out of the question... unless you are into that robo-eroticism.
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SGI Isn't doomed.
There has been great discussion within the "SGI camp" about SGI's abandonment of MIPS and adoptions of x86; many people being disheartened by this. With the new release of this machine, I think it will make many people take a second glance at SGI before choosing an x86-based Linux farm.
Why do people choose SGI? Because with SGI you get a workstation that was designed for Unix; a real Unix workstation. It's an all in one package-- hardware, software, support. It's not some Linux-based kludge.
Look at Apple -- they are nearly identically copying the SGI business model with the release of OSX: an all-encompassing unix workstation solution targetted towards content creation.
While I only own a few less powerful R4400s and R4600s, I believe the R10000 based SGI machines (Purple Indigo2s) are 64 bit... and those were released 8 or 10 years ago-- making moot of your last point. Plus, anyone with any hardware experience outside the x86 realm will note that you are falling into the 'megahertz myth.' Alphas are great and all, but they are being phased out, even though megahertz-per-megahertz they are probably 2x-3x faster than x86 processors.
Welcome back into the ring, SGI
There has already been research into the most frequent keys pressed, etc.
Hence the advent of the Dvorak keyboard. The mose frequent keys are on home row. People who have learned to use the Dvorak keyboard are faster typists, and more accurate to boot.
You can set up any normal keyboard to use Dvorak .
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Call me silly, but I was just wondering if the "i" in iMac was for its designer, Ive?
Food for thought... eat it! Most of you are starving.
Pff, and everyone said finding a card reader/writer would be expensive. If this is a magstripe reader/writer like it says it is, $200 and a few hours of programming some software and you are set.
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A friend of mine used to be a manager at the local UPS depot in Addison, Illinois. Seems the UPS workers have a little "holiday" called "Fuck Fragile Fridays"
You get the picture.
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Ironic... kuro5hin.org seems to be ahead of /. once again. Earlier this morning, they ran this story, eerily similar to the one I am replying to now.
/.
Although, I do have to admit that I was throw off for a moment: the reversal of "XML" and "Databases" in the headline tricked me.
Try again,
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What would the computer do if you moaned? Show more porn?
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Fermi Lab (www.fnal.gov) uses lots of sgi boxen, as does NASA. Not a free Unix.... yet. Wait until sgi files for bankruptcy :)
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Ok, so how does this help prevent my At[a]hlon from melting? Sure beats kryotech.
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The SPEC benchmarks don't necessarily show the true power of CPUs... for years, SGI was proverbialy miles behind the competition as far as the SPEC benchmarks went on their MIPS cpus. Anyone who owns a SGI machine will tell you that the SPEC scores aren't relative to the performance you get out of the machines.
Then again, SGI is swirling down the drain rather quickly, so take it with a grain of salt..
Another thought I had: Isn't AMD supporting their own "enemy" by releasing chips that sound like they have a higher clock speed? In a way, couldn't this just further the consumer confusion? Who is to say that Intel won't release a Pentium 5 3000 down the road? Just because AMD is being "fair" and gauging their performance against intel's chips doesn't mean other companies won't abuse the system.
heyitsme
Last time I checked, cdrom.com, one of, if not the busiest file sites on the net ran FreeBSD. And, if I recall correctly, it can handle 3600 simultaneous users with ease.
Then again, what else would you expect from a site whose very foundation is built upon neo-linux-zealotism?
Maybe if /. ran something besides Linsux, they wouldn't have this problem.
Brings to mind a situation that happened in the UO community a while back. An Origin employee at the time used his job's status as a Game Master to create thousands of dollars worth of items and fence them off on eBay.
As a seller of items, I see no problems with people buying them. Like a few previous posters have stated: if it makes you happy, more power too it. So.. I sell these items. Now will you judge me with what I do with my money? Why don't you just judge everyone who doesn't spend money like you do-- what about smokers? Not only are they spending lots of money yearly, they are spending it on something that could kill them.
People spend their money for two things: survival and enjoyment. And as long as people can buy their way to happiness (however short lived it may be) they will do so.
Now, if you will excuse me, I need to go buy a sack of dank weed with the money I made formerly selling Towers in UO, and the money I continue to make with my high level sorceress on Diablo II.
heyitsme
All of you who are spouting out "let's tunnel everything through ssl/ssh" obviously don't know too much about the real invulnerabilities out there. I hate to break it to all of you OpenBSD/ssh zealots out there, but ssh isn't secure. Anyone who has ever toyed with dsniff (www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff) will easily tell you that it is possible (via man in the middle attacks) to monitor/kill/hijack ssh connections. It takes about 1 minute on FreeBSD to arp-spoof the network's gateway and seamlessly m onitor every packet going through it.
SSH isn't the solution.
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