Not mentioning the fact that usb is a shared bus, and thus your keyboard/mouse may be slowed by other devices on the bus... do you really want your mouse to become jerky and your keyboard to act like a telnet session over 2400bps when your downloading pictures from a camera or using a usb based networking device? No, me neither... such important devices as keyboards/mice should have their own busses that arent interfered with by other devices... Afterall, its not like ISA... where legacy devices degrade system performance, its all about making systems cheaper to produce, while selling you new devices, even tho the 20 year old keyboards work very nicely still.
Well, but this would severely hurt both dell and microsoft, linux would benefit a lot in the short term.. but who`s to say how this would plan out in the long term
The fact that theres so many incompatible soundservers, and programs can work with either a soundserver, or native os support, and most soundservers block your native os sound support.. In addition, soundservers increase latency and processor usage... its just another hoop to jump through. With a standardised soundserver that`s part of the official X11 specs, hopefully support will level out.. and other servers will adopt their interfaces to comply with the standards... Personally i believe a soundserver should offer an interface compatible with that provided by the native os, and should ONLY be used for network sounds.. playing local sounds through an additional process is just a waste of resources unless that process has some value-add, such as effects generation.... still, the choice should be there to use the sound hardware directly for those of us who dont want fancy reverb effects etc.
But assuming microsoft and dell were competing head to head, assuming they can both source the hardware at the same cost... whats the betting microsoft would start charging dell retail prices to bundle windows, while shipping it with their own hardware at cost price (virtually nothing)
The EV68 is available at just over 1.2ghz, and at this speed is roughly 40% faster than a 2.8ghz p4 on the specfp benchmarks, The EV7 starts at 1ghz and presumeably faster versions will come later.. the ev7 should also quite comfortably beat the ev68 at the same clock
On the assumption that your 6mhz 8086 was running dos... VMS is a fully featured os, it has a kernel, virtual memory, etc etc etc... DOS is by comparison extremely simplistic... if you want a modern comparison install dos windows and linux on a single machine and compare the speed of your calculation, dos will be quicker because it can divert 100% of the processing power to your task... Unless ofcourse you have to use the crappy dos disk drivers. The VMS system also most likely had a lot of other users all trying to do things at once. But this all goes to show the inefficiency present in modern os designs, some is essential for the task (multiuser, protected memory, multitasking etc) and many things are not.
Ofcourse, if every employee at a company has their own cheap diskspace sitting on their desks, you get to problems like backups, reliability and portability... What if the cheap IDE disk in the secretaries PC fries? all her data is lost... If a single SCSI disk as part of a raidset on a high end server dies, then the disk is just replaced and the array rebuilds itself. And ofcourse if all the important data is stored in one place it can be backed up all at once too, just incase worse things happen to the drives.. It would be far too costly to go around everyone`s workstations taking backups every day. When it comes to portability, a given employee can login anywhere in the office, or even in remote offices if necessary, and access all their files, doing this with 500+ desktop machines is incredibly difficult, due to the frequency with which they may get unplugged or rebooted etc.. However, the admins should take into account what business the company does, and provide adequate space for each employee, so that assuming they do their work and dont try to save loads of downloaded porn, they shouldnt have a problem.. Ofcourse ever less efficient fileformats will just keep making this more difficult.
And if microsoft got their way, and details of vulnerabilities are not disclosed.. then you wouldn`t be able to test if the patch was vulnerable or not.. you would just have to "trust" that it isn`t, and that the blackhats dont have access to exploits for this problem.
Amstrad produced a personal email machine that was spectrum compatible a while back... it was basically a phone with a small lcd screen and a keyboard.. i`m sure theyre still for sale
Well, but once installed gentoo makes a brilliant desktop... I deployed it on 16 machines that are being used for web browsing, and i havent had a single problem.. its fast, stable as hell, and trivial to install new programs.. and has the latest tools appropriate to the use of the machines (kde, mozilla, phoenix, galeon)
But not all of the code in MPlayer is based on other peoples gpl code, much of it is written by the mplayer team themselves... and any binary distribution of mplayer would require this code in order to function, so surely theyre well within their rights to request that people dont distribute binaries of THEIR code... I doubt they would complain if you built object files of the gpl`d code they reused from other projects, ofcourse on their own you wouldn`t have a very usefull program...
They should be held accountable for allowing their servers to become infected and then to attack other systems, i would very much like to present a bandwidth bill to the companies who`s servers have been scanning my ipblocks recently.
Well then, what exactly were testbed machines doing on a network thats connected in any way to the internet... why were they not on an isolated controlled network?
But there are important differences to note when comparing windows and linux in this respect. Many windows users use old versions because of financial constraints, accountants will say "well if that works fine we should keep it" with linux, its possible to legally upgrade for free.. I worked for a company once who kept windows 95 because although it gave endless troubles they had 500+ machines and couldnt afford to upgrade them all at once, and maintaining uniformity throughout the network was important.
Why exactly is VNC so popular on X11/Unix systems? All it seems to offer is a cheap hack to implement features X11 has had since the beginning, only its considerably slower...
But the OpenSSL worm didnt gain root access to the machine, and infected a comparatively of machines relative to the number which have openssl installed, remember the openssl worm only targetted x86/linux machines, openssl runs on a lot of others.. such as Solaris.
But this is "The most secure windows ever", a "highly secure network operating system". Their advertising talks about their infallible security and tries to sell their software on that basis.. and then they wonder why people dont install the patches? "well its already secure, why bother installing patches that might be broken or contain more intrusive EULA`s"
But again, on a server motherboard theres likely to be multiple pci busses, possibly 64bit and/or 66mhz pci aswell, which is capable of much higher transfer rates than 32bit 33mhz pci.
And the www.hp.com site was running fine, but the aforementioned slashdot article didnt link to www.hp.com, rather it linked to a subdomain server which IS running windows 2000 and iis 5.
well their server was running iis on win2k, the hp site is slow at the best of times.. nevermind after a slashdotting... A good showcase would be to replace their loadbalanced server farm with a single alphaserver, remember altavista ran off alphaservers for years when it was the most popular search engine around. Actually, can you really take seriously a company that doesnt even use their own products?
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A second port doesnt count for much unless its on a seperate bus, which often it isn`t... it`s basically an inbuilt 2 port usb hub.
Not mentioning the fact that usb is a shared bus, and thus your keyboard/mouse may be slowed by other devices on the bus... do you really want your mouse to become jerky and your keyboard to act like a telnet session over 2400bps when your downloading pictures from a camera or using a usb based networking device?
No, me neither... such important devices as keyboards/mice should have their own busses that arent interfered with by other devices...
Afterall, its not like ISA... where legacy devices degrade system performance, its all about making systems cheaper to produce, while selling you new devices, even tho the 20 year old keyboards work very nicely still.
Well, but this would severely hurt both dell and microsoft, linux would benefit a lot in the short term.. but who`s to say how this would plan out in the long term
The fact that theres so many incompatible soundservers, and programs can work with either a soundserver, or native os support, and most soundservers block your native os sound support..
In addition, soundservers increase latency and processor usage... its just another hoop to jump through.
With a standardised soundserver that`s part of the official X11 specs, hopefully support will level out.. and other servers will adopt their interfaces to comply with the standards... Personally i believe a soundserver should offer an interface compatible with that provided by the native os, and should ONLY be used for network sounds.. playing local sounds through an additional process is just a waste of resources unless that process has some value-add, such as effects generation.... still, the choice should be there to use the sound hardware directly for those of us who dont want fancy reverb effects etc.
But assuming microsoft and dell were competing head to head, assuming they can both source the hardware at the same cost... whats the betting microsoft would start charging dell retail prices to bundle windows, while shipping it with their own hardware at cost price (virtually nothing)
The EV68 is available at just over 1.2ghz, and at this speed is roughly 40% faster than a 2.8ghz p4 on the specfp benchmarks, The EV7 starts at 1ghz and presumeably faster versions will come later.. the ev7 should also quite comfortably beat the ev68 at the same clock
Isn`t microsoft under a court order to maintain a port of NT to the alpha architecture?
Not according to recent SpecFP benchmarks which put the 1.2ghz Alpha EV68 ahead of the 1.3ghz Power4
On the assumption that your 6mhz 8086 was running dos...
VMS is a fully featured os, it has a kernel, virtual memory, etc etc etc... DOS is by comparison extremely simplistic... if you want a modern comparison install dos windows and linux on a single machine and compare the speed of your calculation, dos will be quicker because it can divert 100% of the processing power to your task... Unless ofcourse you have to use the crappy dos disk drivers.
The VMS system also most likely had a lot of other users all trying to do things at once.
But this all goes to show the inefficiency present in modern os designs, some is essential for the task (multiuser, protected memory, multitasking etc) and many things are not.
Ofcourse, if every employee at a company has their own cheap diskspace sitting on their desks, you get to problems like backups, reliability and portability...
What if the cheap IDE disk in the secretaries PC fries? all her data is lost... If a single SCSI disk as part of a raidset on a high end server dies, then the disk is just replaced and the array rebuilds itself. And ofcourse if all the important data is stored in one place it can be backed up all at once too, just incase worse things happen to the drives.. It would be far too costly to go around everyone`s workstations taking backups every day.
When it comes to portability, a given employee can login anywhere in the office, or even in remote offices if necessary, and access all their files, doing this with 500+ desktop machines is incredibly difficult, due to the frequency with which they may get unplugged or rebooted etc..
However, the admins should take into account what business the company does, and provide adequate space for each employee, so that assuming they do their work and dont try to save loads of downloaded porn, they shouldnt have a problem.. Ofcourse ever less efficient fileformats will just keep making this more difficult.
And if microsoft got their way, and details of vulnerabilities are not disclosed.. then you wouldn`t be able to test if the patch was vulnerable or not.. you would just have to "trust" that it isn`t, and that the blackhats dont have access to exploits for this problem.
Amstrad produced a personal email machine that was spectrum compatible a while back... it was basically a phone with a small lcd screen and a keyboard.. i`m sure theyre still for sale
Well, but once installed gentoo makes a brilliant desktop... I deployed it on 16 machines that are being used for web browsing, and i havent had a single problem.. its fast, stable as hell, and trivial to install new programs.. and has the latest tools appropriate to the use of the machines (kde, mozilla, phoenix, galeon)
But not all of the code in MPlayer is based on other peoples gpl code, much of it is written by the mplayer team themselves... and any binary distribution of mplayer would require this code in order to function, so surely theyre well within their rights to request that people dont distribute binaries of THEIR code... I doubt they would complain if you built object files of the gpl`d code they reused from other projects, ofcourse on their own you wouldn`t have a very usefull program...
They should be held accountable for allowing their servers to become infected and then to attack other systems, i would very much like to present a bandwidth bill to the companies who`s servers have been scanning my ipblocks recently.
Well then, what exactly were testbed machines doing on a network thats connected in any way to the internet... why were they not on an isolated controlled network?
Bind 9 you can, reiserfs and ipchains sure you cant since they are integral parts of the newer kernels
But there are important differences to note when comparing windows and linux in this respect.
Many windows users use old versions because of financial constraints, accountants will say "well if that works fine we should keep it" with linux, its possible to legally upgrade for free..
I worked for a company once who kept windows 95 because although it gave endless troubles they had 500+ machines and couldnt afford to upgrade them all at once, and maintaining uniformity throughout the network was important.
Why exactly is VNC so popular on X11/Unix systems? All it seems to offer is a cheap hack to implement features X11 has had since the beginning, only its considerably slower...
But the OpenSSL worm didnt gain root access to the machine, and infected a comparatively of machines relative to the number which have openssl installed, remember the openssl worm only targetted x86/linux machines, openssl runs on a lot of others.. such as Solaris.
But this is "The most secure windows ever", a "highly secure network operating system". Their advertising talks about their infallible security and tries to sell their software on that basis.. and then they wonder why people dont install the patches?
"well its already secure, why bother installing patches that might be broken or contain more intrusive EULA`s"
But again, on a server motherboard theres likely to be multiple pci busses, possibly 64bit and/or 66mhz pci aswell, which is capable of much higher transfer rates than 32bit 33mhz pci.
And the www.hp.com site was running fine, but the aforementioned slashdot article didnt link to www.hp.com, rather it linked to a subdomain server which IS running windows 2000 and iis 5.
well their server was running iis on win2k, the hp site is slow at the best of times.. nevermind after a slashdotting...
A good showcase would be to replace their loadbalanced server farm with a single alphaserver, remember altavista ran off alphaservers for years when it was the most popular search engine around.
Actually, can you really take seriously a company that doesnt even use their own products?
And AFAIK the interface is 128bits wide and not 16, as was used on the p4...