For a time they used Solaris (no idea what version) but the fact that AOL is switching to Linux speaks VOLUMES about how far along Linux is in truely large scale environments. Think, the worlds largest ISP is suddenly using it over everything else out there, scalablity anyone? That in of itself is big news.
See this is the one thing about the Slashdot forums that utterly pisses me off.. I can read all day stories of corps just beating down the common man, my own government restricting my rights, tons of things that "shouldn't happen here" but nowhere do I see info on which organizations to support to oppose these things or which protests to attend, or anything.. it's like watching a mugging from the comfort my web browser and I'm sick of it. If anyone has sites, or info, hook me up, love to be more involved.
What does Ellison see in Linux? *puts on his flame-retardant suit for this one*, for the businesses he supports (gotta give him credit folks #1 database co here, and not overnight) what does he see in Linux's future that Solaris can't match or beat already?
Given AMD's market position, and Intel's market saturation, if Intel supports AMD's x64 instructions it would only sever to force software vendors to release x64 based products instead of EPIC (ia64) based ones. Though from a technological standpoint I'm not sure if this is a good thing, but it's wonderful from a competitive open market one.
Same here when making my buying choices, Zdnet, Pcmag are on the bottom of my go-to list. Anandtech, Toms and always on top. In fact my current motherboard, processor (Athlon), even memory are direct results of thier reviews. Funny, I consider them part of the press.
Actually nothing in college is free, you really pay for everything. Spend 4 years in one and you'll be amazed at the high cost of everything. And with every year they're raising tuitions you ought to expect to get something for the thousands you're forking out each year..and some each month.
Only a monopolist could concieve of paying 230 a month for a service, in a year 2,760. No I don't think I'll get over that sticker shock. What most will do is ditch tv, stick with DSL and go out to see move plays and movies. If there was viable competition in that arena, they'd be bending over to find a way to provide affordable good services, not ass raping AOL quality ones.
64 bits on a server = larger databases (the better the catalog you with my dear)
64 bits on a desktop = ?
I'm sorta missing why this is good for the rest of us...
While everyone is whinning over the issues surrounding human cloning, look back a bit at human history. Everything we've done has cost lives for the sake of progress. This is no different, it must be done and at least somewhere it will be.
For Linux, I've got to say that with the right hardware (fast drives) any of the newer journaling filesystems would be excellent. Why?
1. Data protection - the journaling systems Reiserfs, Ext3, XFS; etc offer far better and faster recovery than Ext2 does
2. Configurable, though I've never found a need to do it, you can set the block sizes in Ext2 and 3 to optimize it for larger files or smaller ones
What to stay away from fat/vfat/fat32. Why?
1. No security, period
I've used the betas of XP and reviewed several of the benchmarks so here we go...For one thing you'll have to go to XP Professional Upgrade which offers the following over Windows 2000
1. Improved NTFS access times, not great but improved
2. Improved Usablity, I'll give it this is much prettier but that's really about it.
3 The ability to do driver rollbacks (as a gamer, beta drivers are a staple of my life, but as a home user probably wouldn't do allot of good)
4. The system restore feature from WindowsME, me I use a copy of Ghost
5. Built in Cdrom burning... don't know about you, but most CDR's come with software that does much better.
6. Built in firewall, limited very limited... better than nothing, but you might as well turn your ports off for the same functionality.
The bad side
1. Slower graphics drivers, yeah most lose framerates compared to 98 AND 2000. Even the Radeon and GeForces
2. Slightly higher memory requirements (a minor point, ram is cheap now)
3.That dammed Registration!!! It's a strange mix off a possible necessary evil with a really nasty inconvience. Basically it generated a code that deactiveated your machine if you change so many parts out (Motherboard and NIC mainly) this code sticks with your machine and "only" your machine though I can't see why you couldn't install XP on several machines with the exact same hardware.
4. Not that different from 2000..allot of the same features
All in all, if you're going from 95/98/ME to XP it's a good thing.. but from W2K to XP it's not a pressing thing unless you just want to stay with the power curve. Me, I think I'm going to stick with dual booting:)
Here's the running question as I see it. Will there be enough applications out there compiled to take advantage of the X86-64 arch that will make this a viable processor? As I see it, there isn't allot of call for 64bit Apache, Samba, or KDE. Sorry, I hope they'll pull it off, I just don't see it.
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1 It didn't cost me an arm and a leg. For what I'd pay for a new IMac, I could easily stock a brand new AthlonXP w/a full fledge GF4.
.. *blah*
Aside from that I love Mac's just too out of my price range
I'm at a loss to understand how the US law has any sway in another country. Why didn't Xenu (sp?) just tell them to fsck off?
For a time they used Solaris (no idea what version) but the fact that AOL is switching to Linux speaks VOLUMES about how far along Linux is in truely large scale environments. Think, the worlds largest ISP is suddenly using it over everything else out there, scalablity anyone? That in of itself is big news.
See this is the one thing about the Slashdot forums that utterly pisses me off.. I can read all day stories of corps just beating down the common man, my own government restricting my rights, tons of things that "shouldn't happen here" but nowhere do I see info on which organizations to support to oppose these things or which protests to attend, or anything.. it's like watching a mugging from the comfort my web browser and I'm sick of it. If anyone has sites, or info, hook me up, love to be more involved.
Yeah this'll prolly get modded "redundant" but even still, that's one nice case, I'd buy one!
Who comes knocking on my door if they decide I've violated their rules/laws?
What does Ellison see in Linux? *puts on his flame-retardant suit for this one*, for the businesses he supports (gotta give him credit folks #1 database co here, and not overnight) what does he see in Linux's future that Solaris can't match or beat already?
Let's see how Carmack intergrates this tech into his next FPS!!
Okay, besides the cost, and maybe not even that, what's the difference between this kind of subscription and M$'s ?
Given AMD's market position, and Intel's market saturation, if Intel supports AMD's x64 instructions it would only sever to force software vendors to release x64 based products instead of EPIC (ia64) based ones. Though from a technological standpoint I'm not sure if this is a good thing, but it's wonderful from a competitive open market one.
Same here when making my buying choices, Zdnet, Pcmag are on the bottom of my go-to list. Anandtech, Toms and always on top. In fact my current motherboard, processor (Athlon), even memory are direct results of thier reviews. Funny, I consider them part of the press.
Actually nothing in college is free, you really pay for everything. Spend 4 years in one and you'll be amazed at the high cost of everything. And with every year they're raising tuitions you ought to expect to get something for the thousands you're forking out each year ..and some each month.
Only a monopolist could concieve of paying 230 a month for a service, in a year 2,760. No I don't think I'll get over that sticker shock. What most will do is ditch tv, stick with DSL and go out to see move plays and movies. If there was viable competition in that arena, they'd be bending over to find a way to provide affordable good services, not ass raping AOL quality ones.
And this my friends is why I'll be looking out for Phillips products to spend MY money on!
Just like with encrypted CD's.. .it there a legal way of opposing this latest plan to restrict fair-use?
There's nothing quite like an auction to parcel off someones hopes and dreams OT I know but I'm going to miss Be
Yeah I was missing the point of a 64 bit Web browser..
64 bits on a server = larger databases (the better the catalog you with my dear)
64 bits on a desktop = ?
I'm sorta missing why this is good for the rest of us...
Hmm it's not like the Linux camp has a billion dollars to throw around doing it either... grassroots vs. huge corporation.. makes a difference.
Wouldn't this be percieved as the "fragmenting" of Linux? I thought the newest stuff was to be included in the 2.5.x series ?
Personally I'm appreciative of any hackers work, so dude thank you so much for putting this out in the public arena!! Keep up the good work!
While everyone is whinning over the issues surrounding human cloning, look back a bit at human history. Everything we've done has cost lives for the sake of progress. This is no different, it must be done and at least somewhere it will be.
For Linux, I've got to say that with the right hardware (fast drives) any of the newer journaling filesystems would be excellent. Why?
1. Data protection - the journaling systems Reiserfs, Ext3, XFS; etc offer far better and faster recovery than Ext2 does
2. Configurable, though I've never found a need to do it, you can set the block sizes in Ext2 and 3 to optimize it for larger files or smaller ones
What to stay away from fat/vfat/fat32. Why?
1. No security, period
*clink, clink* just my two cents..
Honestly, not much ...
..allot of the same features
:)
I've used the betas of XP and reviewed several of the benchmarks so here we go...For one thing you'll have to go to XP Professional Upgrade which offers the following over Windows 2000
1. Improved NTFS access times, not great but improved
2. Improved Usablity, I'll give it this is much prettier but that's really about it.
3 The ability to do driver rollbacks (as a gamer, beta drivers are a staple of my life, but as a home user probably wouldn't do allot of good)
4. The system restore feature from WindowsME, me I use a copy of Ghost
5. Built in Cdrom burning... don't know about you, but most CDR's come with software that does much better.
6. Built in firewall, limited very limited... better than nothing, but you might as well turn your ports off for the same functionality.
The bad side
1. Slower graphics drivers, yeah most lose framerates compared to 98 AND 2000. Even the Radeon and GeForces
2. Slightly higher memory requirements (a minor point, ram is cheap now)
3.That dammed Registration!!! It's a strange mix off a possible necessary evil with a really nasty inconvience. Basically it generated a code that deactiveated your machine if you change so many parts out (Motherboard and NIC mainly) this code sticks with your machine and "only" your machine though I can't see why you couldn't install XP on several machines with the exact same hardware.
4. Not that different from 2000
All in all, if you're going from 95/98/ME to XP it's a good thing.. but from W2K to XP it's not a pressing thing unless you just want to stay with the power curve. Me, I think I'm going to stick with dual booting
Here's the running question as I see it. Will there be enough applications out there compiled to take advantage of the X86-64 arch that will make this a viable processor? As I see it, there isn't allot of call for 64bit Apache, Samba, or KDE. Sorry, I hope they'll pull it off, I just don't see it.