nope, Omniweb DOESN'T crash, that was my point. Bizarrely, Internet Explorer seems to work fine if I log in as a different user (fine-ish, anyway) and Opera doesn't ALWAYS crash. But Netscape 6 and iCab unexpectedly quit EVERY time. I also find it EXTREMELY annoying that OSX defaults to IE every time I upgrade my Omniweb version. Incidentally, I run a dual-CPU machine, which seems to have had "special" issues with OSX since the public preview. Omniweb works just great, though, so the problem isn't there.
plus the fact that it's the ONLY web browser out of Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera, Omniweb and iCab that doesn't crash within a minute of launch on my G4. Omniweb is simply THE best browser for OSX, bar none.
if people send me a.doc I ALWAYS request that they send it as.rtf instead "because it's smaller and our virus checking software removes all MS Office attachments". Our (non-existant) virus checking software does nothing of the sort, of course - it's my email client that does that... People are so used to email attachments fucking up that they'll resave as.rtf without a second thought.
MPEG2 broadcasting doesn't work like that, rather channels are grouped into "multiplex" bundles. True, each multiplex might ony add up to 5 or 10 discrete channels but they're NOT seperate streams. Not that it matters much, there are many microwave links that easily surpass 400Mbps.
err... nope. The 100 and the 66 refer to the peak bandwidth of the interface in MB/sec. My 7200RPM ATA100 drive is on an ATA66 controller and gives 64MB/sec peak reads out of drive cache and 35MB/sec sustained (according to my ATTO benchmarking tool, anyway) - not much faster than ATA33, but the cache burst IS. And that's the reason why that WD ATA133 drive with 8MB cache scores so great, it can burst up to 8MB at up to 133MB/sec even though it can probably only manage a similar sustained rate to my Diamondmax.
I've seen 35MB/sec from the little Maxtor Diamondmax boot drive in there too - that's a 60Gb 7200rpm ATA/100 disk. Not far off, and that ain't the fastest ATA either. Go check out StorageReview.com for some proper storage performance analysis.
well, if you're interested in one-way bandwidth you may find the xfer speeds of digital TV satellites impressive. I'm roughly guessing that the one I'm watching now is doing at LEAST 100 channels at 30Mb/sec each (more likely 200 at 20Mb/sec...) maybe an order of magnitude better than this land speed record...
err... no it isn't. My little G4's internal SCSI array reads at sustd/peak 78/286 writes at 76/92. That's MB/sec so we're talking IRO R >600/>2200 W >600/>700. And this little array's nothing special, just a pair of Fujitsu MAJ's at 10K rpm with 4MB cache each on an ATTO UL3D twin channel host controller. Cost around a grand to install is all - there are WAY faster drives than those available now - awesome 15k rpm beasts than can top 60MB/sec sustained...
not really at 1Ghz+. I think that all current (non-mobile) chips chew at least 30W at 1Ghz. Heat generating monsters like the AthlonXP 2100+ (1733Mhz) are dissipating double that at least.
yep, any new alternative to the tragedy of a Windows server (and that means CIFS... and Exchange... and Windows Media... etc etc etc) is a good thing. Particularly where that server is aimed at installations WITHOUT a dedicated IT dept. OTOH this review tells us little we didn't already know - we want real world performance comparisons and uptime stats on REAL machines in REAL server environments
I'm not in the least bit shaken by your ANONYMOUS arguments, just pointing out that I have no "right" to say anything or think anything, there's no higher power granting me "rights" to do things, I'll do them if I want to and am able to. You have the same "rights" yourself, as does anyone as far as I can see. Incidentally, it's ludicrous of you to reply to one comment in which you quote another, why not just reply to the actual comment you clicked "Reply to This" for? I would have thought context was a fairly simple concept to grasp.
>Why do you think that belief in a Creator is any >different than belief of a Twinkie?
I don't, it's just that the subject at hand was that of belief in a supernatural creator.
>If the consistent presense of believers across the >world is what it takes then maybe you have found >the truth. There are Christians on >every continent all over the world.
Same with Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists and Moonies and Cornflake worshippers.
>By your logic perhaps they are right.
Perhaps they are, that they have no evidence that they are is unquestionable. Perhaps Islam is righter, perhaps Hiduism righter still.
>Isn't that correct? On the other hand, I haven't >seen as many declared atheists so maybe they are >wrong?
As I'm sure you realise, it takes considerable bravery in some cultures to declare oneself an atheist, organised religion being a cultural rather than spirtual phenomenon.
nope. we're talking about belief in a supernatural ceator here, not the concept of belief itself. Interesting that you should try to counter my argument by ignoring or deliberately misunderstanding it. In my opinion, the height of arrogance is to think oneself so important that the universe has any interest in oneself (a human, presumably?) whatsoever. Any fool can see that their can't be much inherent worth to a religion if people practice it depending on where they live. Why are there so many Buddhists in Thailand and so few in Italy? And yet there are so many Roman Catholics in Italy? Weird, isn't it? These supernatural being are clearly thinking universally but acting locally. Or they don't exist. Pick one, and wake up to yourself.
he may have bleated some sort of creed or another but we must judge people by their actions. Hitler didn't follow the teachings of Christ in his life and therefore could never be considered a Christian. You could probably say the same of Tony Blair and George Bush both of whom claim to be Christian, and yet have ordered people killed. No matter how much you crap you try and read into Christ's teachings, I think his absolute proscription of violence and instruction to love is central and undiluted.
no, you missed the point. If you invalidate all belief positions then non-belief becomes the only validate position. Thus all positions are NOT equal, non-believers prevail. Just like in the real world.
I am an atheist and yet brought up as a Christian. What would history reocrd my beliefs as I wonder? How many habitual church goers have a REAL faith? Strange to think that so many believe EXACTLY the same thing, and KNOW that they are right, and that THEIR God is the true God and yet so many others believe in another God or no God at all. That very conflict invalidates ALL beliefs. Why? I s a human notion and looks for human motivations, it has NO bearing on the rest of the universe as far as we know. That we know very little is undeniable, that only science EVER recognises this fact is regrettable.
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nope, Omniweb DOESN'T crash, that was my point. Bizarrely, Internet Explorer seems to work fine if I log in as a different user (fine-ish, anyway) and Opera doesn't ALWAYS crash. But Netscape 6 and iCab unexpectedly quit EVERY time. I also find it EXTREMELY annoying that OSX defaults to IE every time I upgrade my Omniweb version. Incidentally, I run a dual-CPU machine, which seems to have had "special" issues with OSX since the public preview. Omniweb works just great, though, so the problem isn't there.
A-fucking-men!
plus the fact that it's the ONLY web browser out of Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera, Omniweb and iCab that doesn't crash within a minute of launch on my G4. Omniweb is simply THE best browser for OSX, bar none.
TerrorFlops?
TERAFLOPS!
Motorola are already anufacturing several MPC 85XX parts, none of which is suitable as a desktop CPU - check out Moto's site, all else is speculation.
the constant barrage of HTML email that I receive is poisoning my mind against it - but you're right of course
if people send me a .doc I ALWAYS request that they send it as .rtf instead "because it's smaller and our virus checking software removes all MS Office attachments". Our (non-existant) virus checking software does nothing of the sort, of course - it's my email client that does that... People are so used to email attachments fucking up that they'll resave as .rtf without a second thought.
MPEG2 broadcasting doesn't work like that, rather channels are grouped into "multiplex" bundles. True, each multiplex might ony add up to 5 or 10 discrete channels but they're NOT seperate streams. Not that it matters much, there are many microwave links that easily surpass 400Mbps.
err... nope. The 100 and the 66 refer to the peak bandwidth of the interface in MB/sec. My 7200RPM ATA100 drive is on an ATA66 controller and gives 64MB/sec peak reads out of drive cache and 35MB/sec sustained (according to my ATTO benchmarking tool, anyway) - not much faster than ATA33, but the cache burst IS. And that's the reason why that WD ATA133 drive with 8MB cache scores so great, it can burst up to 8MB at up to 133MB/sec even though it can probably only manage a similar sustained rate to my Diamondmax.
I've seen 35MB/sec from the little Maxtor Diamondmax boot drive in there too - that's a 60Gb 7200rpm ATA/100 disk. Not far off, and that ain't the fastest ATA either. Go check out StorageReview.com for some proper storage performance analysis.
SDI normally runs at 270Mbps, Dual-Link HD-SDI at 3.6Gbps. I'd say there's a way to go before I start doing video over IP across continents...
not ALL the way, Einstein
well, if you're interested in one-way bandwidth you may find the xfer speeds of digital TV satellites impressive. I'm roughly guessing that the one I'm watching now is doing at LEAST 100 channels at 30Mb/sec each (more likely 200 at 20Mb/sec...) maybe an order of magnitude better than this land speed record...
err... no it isn't. My little G4's internal SCSI array reads at sustd/peak 78/286 writes at 76/92. That's MB/sec so we're talking IRO R >600/>2200 W >600/>700. And this little array's nothing special, just a pair of Fujitsu MAJ's at 10K rpm with 4MB cache each on an ATTO UL3D twin channel host controller. Cost around a grand to install is all - there are WAY faster drives than those available now - awesome 15k rpm beasts than can top 60MB/sec sustained...
whoa! that's about the speed I get over GigE from my Mac to the fileserver's RAID next door! Holy fuck! Alaska!!
not really at 1Ghz+. I think that all current (non-mobile) chips chew at least 30W at 1Ghz. Heat generating monsters like the AthlonXP 2100+ (1733Mhz) are dissipating double that at least.
yep, any new alternative to the tragedy of a Windows server (and that means CIFS... and Exchange... and Windows Media... etc etc etc) is a good thing. Particularly where that server is aimed at installations WITHOUT a dedicated IT dept. OTOH this review tells us little we didn't already know - we want real world performance comparisons and uptime stats on REAL machines in REAL server environments
I think there's EVERY chance that that's EXACTLY what they've got in mind - and it's a way cool name
I'm not in the least bit shaken by your ANONYMOUS arguments, just pointing out that I have no "right" to say anything or think anything, there's no higher power granting me "rights" to do things, I'll do them if I want to and am able to. You have the same "rights" yourself, as does anyone as far as I can see. Incidentally, it's ludicrous of you to reply to one comment in which you quote another, why not just reply to the actual comment you clicked "Reply to This" for? I would have thought context was a fairly simple concept to grasp.
the same thing that gives you the right to tell me I'm wrong you fucking idiot - ability to do so.
>Why do you think that belief in a Creator is any
>different than belief of a Twinkie?
I don't, it's just that the subject at hand was that of belief in a supernatural creator.
>If the consistent presense of believers across the >world is what it takes then maybe you have found
>the truth. There are Christians on
>every continent all over the world.
Same with Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists and Moonies and Cornflake worshippers.
>By your logic perhaps they are right.
Perhaps they are, that they have no evidence that they are is unquestionable. Perhaps Islam is righter, perhaps Hiduism righter still.
>Isn't that correct? On the other hand, I haven't
>seen as many declared atheists so maybe they are
>wrong?
As I'm sure you realise, it takes considerable bravery in some cultures to declare oneself an atheist, organised religion being a cultural rather than spirtual phenomenon.
And I don't believe in Twinkies, either.
nope. we're talking about belief in a supernatural ceator here, not the concept of belief itself. Interesting that you should try to counter my argument by ignoring or deliberately misunderstanding it. In my opinion, the height of arrogance is to think oneself so important that the universe has any interest in oneself (a human, presumably?) whatsoever. Any fool can see that their can't be much inherent worth to a religion if people practice it depending on where they live. Why are there so many Buddhists in Thailand and so few in Italy? And yet there are so many Roman Catholics in Italy? Weird, isn't it? These supernatural being are clearly thinking universally but acting locally. Or they don't exist. Pick one, and wake up to yourself.
he may have bleated some sort of creed or another but we must judge people by their actions. Hitler didn't follow the teachings of Christ in his life and therefore could never be considered a Christian. You could probably say the same of Tony Blair and George Bush both of whom claim to be Christian, and yet have ordered people killed. No matter how much you crap you try and read into Christ's teachings, I think his absolute proscription of violence and instruction to love is central and undiluted.
no, you missed the point. If you invalidate all belief positions then non-belief becomes the only validate position. Thus all positions are NOT equal, non-believers prevail. Just like in the real world.
I am an atheist and yet brought up as a Christian. What would history reocrd my beliefs as I wonder? How many habitual church goers have a REAL faith? Strange to think that so many believe EXACTLY the same thing, and KNOW that they are right, and that THEIR God is the true God and yet so many others believe in another God or no God at all. That very conflict invalidates ALL beliefs. Why? I s a human notion and looks for human motivations, it has NO bearing on the rest of the universe as far as we know. That we know very little is undeniable, that only science EVER recognises this fact is regrettable.