While Linpac may be a bit more parallel then some supercomputer apps it's comprised of real workloads. This means that for some cross-section of the supercomputer market Linpac is a good measure of a systems performance. And of course the people who are given millions to buy a supercomputer generally know the differences between different architectures and why they would want one system over another.
Were those 1k CD-R's or 1K pressed silver CD's? Because from what I understand the high strength low tolerance masters used to physically stamp actual silver cd's ARE expensive to make. I mean just the machines to cut a vinyl record into wax cost tens of thousands, and getting a vinyl master done costs hundreds to thousands depending on the quality needed, so I don't see why cutting a more precise blank wouldn't be corespondingly high. Of course counting the "cost" of each pressed disk at $2 is stupid unless it includes packaging and shipping.
4 port gigabit cards make very little sense. You are unlikely to get a disk subsystem that do in excess of 200MB/s so it makes a LOT more sense to go with two dual port cards with the second card set as a failover pair.
No, no they don't. You can overload your switching fabric, or exceed the packet routing capability of your switches processor, but you will never get a collision on a gigabit network. A collision is the existance of two overlapped messages on the same physical segment, this is an impossibility in a full duplex switched network (which is required by the gig ethernet spec).
So you are saying that rather than paying the price and hiring an unskilled or semiskilled worker with the educational background to do what you need (read recent CS grad) that they are instead paying for someone half a world away to get that same experience and then transfer that experience to someone else? Sounds about right, and it fits in with the overall short term thinking that has infected business since the middle of the last stock market bubble. When insanely profitable companies resort to cooking the books so that their stock price doesn't fall you know there is something fundamentaly wrong.
We are coming up on the quarter century mark for the CD format, CD-ROM is slightly younger but it's still been around a while. Its sucessor DVD includes the ability to read the older media because it costs essentially nothing to add. All optical formats even being considered today will read cd-rom media. That means we are looking at at least a half century for being able to logically read the media. Now if you store your photos in a proprietary RAW format then you probably won't have much luck 20+ years down the road, but if they are in standard JPEG format I don't think you will ever have trouble finding a piece of software that can open them. As to the camera being obsolete, it's not obsolete to me if it can still take an image that can be printed to the size I need with reasonable clarity. I might want a better camera, but if I do not have the money for a newer, better model then the fact that my current one is old does not make it worthless.
Bullshit, there will always be code that can run under a users credentials which will be able to modify/destroy that users data. It may not be able to trash everything in a properly designed system, but 90+% of the time the user cares about the data, not the system. Virus's/Worm's/Trojan's aren't unique to Windows/Office, those are just the most commonly targeted systems because they are on 90+% of machines out there. Bad design can exacerbate the problem, but to say that you can design the problem away is foolish.
Yep, one stipulation I had to using my wifes family friend as our wedding photographer was that I had to be given the negatives and copyright to the images (posession of all negatives would generally be enough proof but I also got a written transfer). I had one imbicil at a photo lab tell me that I could have faked the transfer notice, so I asked him how I would have done that and gotten the negative from the photographer, he didn't know. Btw my photographer used medium format so there was zero dispute that it was better than digital =)
Bullcrap. I HAVE taken economics, and while a 100% savings rate would be bad, so too is the ~0% savings rate that the US currently has. For a real world counterpoint I would point to Slovenia. They have a VERY high savings rate, yet compared to their peers (former Yugolsav republics and other similar eastern european nations) they are doing extremely well economically. There are plenty of valid ways to attack the FairTax, increased savings is not one of them.
I would agree with you Spamhaus is by FAR the best of the RBL's, with the most sane policies (that aren't likely to change). However they are still human, and humans make mistakes. But if they are truely mistakes and not systematic errors then I think they are worth using. Besides I greylist things to a space limited catchall to be able to grab incorrectly scored emails so someone being improperly listed isn't the end of the world, just means a little bit of work on my part if one of my users needs to get a blocked mail.
*laugh* *snortle*. Yeah those $25 OEM license losses really hurt compared to the hundreds from Office. Office, Exchange, SQL, and Server are where the revenue comes from at MS. As long as you can run Office on a desktop platform there is plenty of places for MS to make per seat licensing dollars.
GM makes an operating profit. Their problems are on servicing debt and legacy employee costs. GM has 2.4 retiree's for every working employee. That is a HUGE cost when you provide all the stuff that a union shop does. I couldn't figure out how GM could possibly have $1,600 in health insurance in every vehicle they sold. I figured that very good family insurance for an average working age family costs around $800/month tops so I computed two man months per vehicle, which is of course absurd. But when you have a 3.4 multiplier for fixed employee costs it makes sense. This is a problem that is unique to GM. Ford has ~1.4 retirees per employee and Chrysler is at ~1 (just under). Also Dell sell's their rebranded EMC kit for significantly less than you can get it for from EMC directly, plus you can get a certified package with switches, HBA's, servers, and SAN storage all with only one vendor to call if something goes wrong. Sure you MIGHT be able to buy some of the stuff cheaper and hoble it together, but to most businesses having a tested, stable package is worth a significant amount of money, often more than the cost of the entire system.
Actually it's patented not copyrighted. Specifically the part of FAT32 that allows you to use 8.3 names plus extended long file names. Basically there is the traditional 8.3 FAT descriptor and then an extended blob area at the beginning of where the file data would normally be stored that contains an area for storing long file names. If you use an old sector by sector disk editor on a FAT32 volume you'll see how it's done.
I asked rob and he said they check for DDoS's whenever someone try's to post anonymously from an address. I told him it was busted because no one posted anonymously from my IP, and furthermore it's bad netiquet to port scan someone just because they accessed your site. Don't think he cares.
Funny you should say that, I ran into a problem recently caused by innovation in paint. I'm used to running XP and win2k3, so when I take a screenshot I always save it as a PNG because it's simply the best format for screenshots, small yet you can read all the text! Well, I sent the screenshot to my boss, who for reasons unknown still runs 2k, and he was nto able to open the png files. So I got yelled at because of an innovation MS made to paint =)
Printing to PDF, and exporting to PDF are different things. One dumps a bitmap image of file contents into a pdf container, the other manipulates the file contents into a pdf compliant file format. For something that deals with vector graphics this is a very big distinction.
The problem is, this doesn't help when you form a company soley to hold patents and litigate patent infringement lawsuits. It's really hard to counteroffer your patent suite to someone who's only goal is to collect fees and damages on the patents they hold, not to actually make anything.
Since when is $250 a disaster? (I'm assuming $.05/page which is probably a bit high for a b&w high volume printer.) A business disaster is sending out 1,400 incorrect demo packs weighing a couple pounds a piece because your DBA f'd up the recipient database. Sure you don't want it to happen all the time, but if someone prints an extra couple hundred pages it's not going to sink a business which can afford the printer in the first place. Heck think of all the laptops that end up full of coffee, you can buy a heck of a lot of prints for what that one mocha late cost =)
A "message storm" is a storm of data that overwhelms a system, kind of like a DDOS, but legitimate traffic. In this case it sounds like a large number of error messages overwhelmed the message queueing system (probably MQ from IBM), which likely set off an even larger storm of error messages when backed up messages started to expire.
Why, because the WTC or Oklahoma City incedents were targeting someones datacenter? I think not. Hell MAE East's location was known for years where it was literally almost half the internet, one truck bomb could have disrupted the whole thing, but it was never a problem. Some IT folks like to think that their little corner of the world is way more important than it is.
p.s. Speaking of 9/11, the Linux/Apache powered BBC site was the only one that was consistantly up for me on 9/11.
Actually, you don't. In Ohio at least there is a charge of "being in controll of a motor vehicle while intoxicated". This means that you are a)over the legal limit of alchohol or under the effects of another controlled substance and b)are in a motor vehicle with access to the keys. It doesn't matter where you are, or whether you are actually driving, if you meet the criteria you can be arrested. This law was enacted to enable officers to arrest the guys that are found passed out behind the wheel, whether they pulled over for being too drunk or just randomly meandered there.
ISDN digital subscriber line (IDSL) is a leased line ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI) that is not switched and does not contain signaling (a D-channel). IDSL and ISDN BRI use the same 2B1Q line modulation. On the router, this equates to the placement of the BRI interface in a leased line configuration. You can configure the line for a speed of 64 kbps, 128 kbps, or 144 kbps.
Since the non-CPE end is terminated at a DSLAM instead of a voice switch I don't think there is much in the way of funkyness to get the full 144Kbps speed.
Uh, why?
The CDDA format is 23 years old, a disk created 23 years ago still plays today. A file created with some off the wall PC format 23 years ago may or may not be playable. I think the only formats I would consider if it wasn't a physical CD are a CDDA.iso file or a collection of open format files (Ogg, Flac, MP3), because chances are very good that I will either be able to find something to play them, or worst case I can write my own =)
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When the Earth Simulator first hit the list is was as fast as the #2-#5 machines combined and was almost five times faster than the number two entry.
While Linpac may be a bit more parallel then some supercomputer apps it's comprised of real workloads. This means that for some cross-section of the supercomputer market Linpac is a good measure of a systems performance. And of course the people who are given millions to buy a supercomputer generally know the differences between different architectures and why they would want one system over another.
Were those 1k CD-R's or 1K pressed silver CD's? Because from what I understand the high strength low tolerance masters used to physically stamp actual silver cd's ARE expensive to make. I mean just the machines to cut a vinyl record into wax cost tens of thousands, and getting a vinyl master done costs hundreds to thousands depending on the quality needed, so I don't see why cutting a more precise blank wouldn't be corespondingly high. Of course counting the "cost" of each pressed disk at $2 is stupid unless it includes packaging and shipping.
4 port gigabit cards make very little sense. You are unlikely to get a disk subsystem that do in excess of 200MB/s so it makes a LOT more sense to go with two dual port cards with the second card set as a failover pair.
No, no they don't. You can overload your switching fabric, or exceed the packet routing capability of your switches processor, but you will never get a collision on a gigabit network. A collision is the existance of two overlapped messages on the same physical segment, this is an impossibility in a full duplex switched network (which is required by the gig ethernet spec).
So you are saying that rather than paying the price and hiring an unskilled or semiskilled worker with the educational background to do what you need (read recent CS grad) that they are instead paying for someone half a world away to get that same experience and then transfer that experience to someone else? Sounds about right, and it fits in with the overall short term thinking that has infected business since the middle of the last stock market bubble. When insanely profitable companies resort to cooking the books so that their stock price doesn't fall you know there is something fundamentaly wrong.
We are coming up on the quarter century mark for the CD format, CD-ROM is slightly younger but it's still been around a while. Its sucessor DVD includes the ability to read the older media because it costs essentially nothing to add. All optical formats even being considered today will read cd-rom media. That means we are looking at at least a half century for being able to logically read the media. Now if you store your photos in a proprietary RAW format then you probably won't have much luck 20+ years down the road, but if they are in standard JPEG format I don't think you will ever have trouble finding a piece of software that can open them. As to the camera being obsolete, it's not obsolete to me if it can still take an image that can be printed to the size I need with reasonable clarity. I might want a better camera, but if I do not have the money for a newer, better model then the fact that my current one is old does not make it worthless.
Bullshit, there will always be code that can run under a users credentials which will be able to modify/destroy that users data. It may not be able to trash everything in a properly designed system, but 90+% of the time the user cares about the data, not the system. Virus's/Worm's/Trojan's aren't unique to Windows/Office, those are just the most commonly targeted systems because they are on 90+% of machines out there. Bad design can exacerbate the problem, but to say that you can design the problem away is foolish.
Yep, one stipulation I had to using my wifes family friend as our wedding photographer was that I had to be given the negatives and copyright to the images (posession of all negatives would generally be enough proof but I also got a written transfer). I had one imbicil at a photo lab tell me that I could have faked the transfer notice, so I asked him how I would have done that and gotten the negative from the photographer, he didn't know. Btw my photographer used medium format so there was zero dispute that it was better than digital =)
Bullcrap. I HAVE taken economics, and while a 100% savings rate would be bad, so too is the ~0% savings rate that the US currently has. For a real world counterpoint I would point to Slovenia. They have a VERY high savings rate, yet compared to their peers (former Yugolsav republics and other similar eastern european nations) they are doing extremely well economically. There are plenty of valid ways to attack the FairTax, increased savings is not one of them.
I would agree with you Spamhaus is by FAR the best of the RBL's, with the most sane policies (that aren't likely to change). However they are still human, and humans make mistakes. But if they are truely mistakes and not systematic errors then I think they are worth using. Besides I greylist things to a space limited catchall to be able to grab incorrectly scored emails so someone being improperly listed isn't the end of the world, just means a little bit of work on my part if one of my users needs to get a blocked mail.
*laugh* *snortle*. Yeah those $25 OEM license losses really hurt compared to the hundreds from Office. Office, Exchange, SQL, and Server are where the revenue comes from at MS. As long as you can run Office on a desktop platform there is plenty of places for MS to make per seat licensing dollars.
GM makes an operating profit. Their problems are on servicing debt and legacy employee costs. GM has 2.4 retiree's for every working employee. That is a HUGE cost when you provide all the stuff that a union shop does. I couldn't figure out how GM could possibly have $1,600 in health insurance in every vehicle they sold. I figured that very good family insurance for an average working age family costs around $800/month tops so I computed two man months per vehicle, which is of course absurd. But when you have a 3.4 multiplier for fixed employee costs it makes sense. This is a problem that is unique to GM. Ford has ~1.4 retirees per employee and Chrysler is at ~1 (just under). Also Dell sell's their rebranded EMC kit for significantly less than you can get it for from EMC directly, plus you can get a certified package with switches, HBA's, servers, and SAN storage all with only one vendor to call if something goes wrong. Sure you MIGHT be able to buy some of the stuff cheaper and hoble it together, but to most businesses having a tested, stable package is worth a significant amount of money, often more than the cost of the entire system.
Actually it's patented not copyrighted. Specifically the part of FAT32 that allows you to use 8.3 names plus extended long file names. Basically there is the traditional 8.3 FAT descriptor and then an extended blob area at the beginning of where the file data would normally be stored that contains an area for storing long file names. If you use an old sector by sector disk editor on a FAT32 volume you'll see how it's done.
I asked rob and he said they check for DDoS's whenever someone try's to post anonymously from an address. I told him it was busted because no one posted anonymously from my IP, and furthermore it's bad netiquet to port scan someone just because they accessed your site. Don't think he cares.
Funny you should say that, I ran into a problem recently caused by innovation in paint. I'm used to running XP and win2k3, so when I take a screenshot I always save it as a PNG because it's simply the best format for screenshots, small yet you can read all the text! Well, I sent the screenshot to my boss, who for reasons unknown still runs 2k, and he was nto able to open the png files. So I got yelled at because of an innovation MS made to paint =)
Printing to PDF, and exporting to PDF are different things. One dumps a bitmap image of file contents into a pdf container, the other manipulates the file contents into a pdf compliant file format. For something that deals with vector graphics this is a very big distinction.
The problem is, this doesn't help when you form a company soley to hold patents and litigate patent infringement lawsuits. It's really hard to counteroffer your patent suite to someone who's only goal is to collect fees and damages on the patents they hold, not to actually make anything.
Since when is $250 a disaster? (I'm assuming $.05/page which is probably a bit high for a b&w high volume printer.) A business disaster is sending out 1,400 incorrect demo packs weighing a couple pounds a piece because your DBA f'd up the recipient database. Sure you don't want it to happen all the time, but if someone prints an extra couple hundred pages it's not going to sink a business which can afford the printer in the first place. Heck think of all the laptops that end up full of coffee, you can buy a heck of a lot of prints for what that one mocha late cost =)
A "message storm" is a storm of data that overwhelms a system, kind of like a DDOS, but legitimate traffic. In this case it sounds like a large number of error messages overwhelmed the message queueing system (probably MQ from IBM), which likely set off an even larger storm of error messages when backed up messages started to expire.
Why, because the WTC or Oklahoma City incedents were targeting someones datacenter? I think not. Hell MAE East's location was known for years where it was literally almost half the internet, one truck bomb could have disrupted the whole thing, but it was never a problem. Some IT folks like to think that their little corner of the world is way more important than it is.
p.s.
Speaking of 9/11, the Linux/Apache powered BBC site was the only one that was consistantly up for me on 9/11.
Actually, you don't. In Ohio at least there is a charge of "being in controll of a motor vehicle while intoxicated". This means that you are a)over the legal limit of alchohol or under the effects of another controlled substance and b)are in a motor vehicle with access to the keys. It doesn't matter where you are, or whether you are actually driving, if you meet the criteria you can be arrested. This law was enacted to enable officers to arrest the guys that are found passed out behind the wheel, whether they pulled over for being too drunk or just randomly meandered there.
According to Cisco, iDSL is
ISDN digital subscriber line (IDSL) is a leased line ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI) that is not switched and does not contain signaling (a D-channel). IDSL and ISDN BRI use the same 2B1Q line modulation. On the router, this equates to the placement of the BRI interface in a leased line configuration. You can configure the line for a speed of 64 kbps, 128 kbps, or 144 kbps.
Since the non-CPE end is terminated at a DSLAM instead of a voice switch I don't think there is much in the way of funkyness to get the full 144Kbps speed.
Uh, why? .iso file or a collection of open format files (Ogg, Flac, MP3), because chances are very good that I will either be able to find something to play them, or worst case I can write my own =)
The CDDA format is 23 years old, a disk created 23 years ago still plays today. A file created with some off the wall PC format 23 years ago may or may not be playable. I think the only formats I would consider if it wasn't a physical CD are a CDDA
So? You can integrate the VRAM into the package of the IGP so that you have memory and graphics card on the same die.