They state that: ' Yahoo does not own Content you submit, unless we specifically tell you otherwise before you submit it. You license the Content to Yahoo as set forth below..'
And below it says: ' By submitting Content to any Yahoo property, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted, Yahoo the royalty-free,...' So, Basically, they tell you other wise. They don't *own* the content, but they have a non-exclusive license to use it still.
Well. It has 4 ethernet cards, 4 CPUS (and NT ties one card to each CPU) and 4 partitions. Thats basically 4 seperate computers inside one box under the control of one operating system...
Whats your definition of a cluster?
Personally, I don't really beleive its a cluster, but the fact is, who is really going to have 4 CPUS, 4 eth cards, and 4 partitions to split everything up?
I admit that SCSI drives are faster, because of various reasons, but my real point is: no matter what you do, a spinning disk is going to be slow. Very slow. You can get connection speeds to the internet which are faster than your HDD can actually save the file...
We need some drastically new form of storage media...
SCSI Allows faster transfer rates than the [E]IDE buses, but the actual hard drive is the same speed. The speed of the connection between computer HDD isn't really the problem (what with USB, Firewire, etc), but the speed that the HDD reads the data from the disk is.
Personally, I think we need something completely different, which doesnt involve spinning drives -- which is noisy, generates heat, uses electricity and is also slow. And if you have physical movement inside the disk, there is more chance the drive will break (or the heads will crash into the surface) if you drop/knock the unit.
I honestly don't know what could be used instead of hard drives.. the various types of flash RAM are hideously expensive just for small quantities, and with HDDs expected to reach 300Gb capacities at some point in the future, it had better be BIG as well as fast. Cheap wouldn't be bad either.
Dammit. We are not the ENGLISH. We are Brittish. I happen to be Scottish, and every time some stupid US person speaks about 'England', instead of the UK, or Britain, I get slightly annoyed. How would you like it if I called the US Washington, or New York or something?
On the main page of their test, zdnet state: 'despite significant tuning improvements made on the Linux side, Windows NT 4.0 still beat Linux'..
They didn't, however mention the fact that they formatted the fileserving partitions into 4 separate partitions to improve WinNT's performance on the front page, did they?
Although I can accept that Windows NT might possibly be able to beat Linux, the wording of that reveiw doesn't make me particularly confident it was 100% un-biased.
On a completely off-topic note: while i was editing my preferences the number of comments on this story more than doubled, in about 5 minutes. wow.
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Uh. I drink that every day.. Not very strong IMO..
Quote from my previous reply:
Personally, I don't really beleive its a cluster,
However its not just the disks.
It has 4 ethernet cards, each bound exclusively to one of 4 CPUS, and no doubt each ethernet card is accessing files on a different HD.
It isn't a cluster, but its a dammed expensive, and I'm sure unusual setup.
Uhm, oops :)
:)
Typoing my own nationality is kinda bad..
At least I spelt Scottish right
They state that:
' Yahoo does not own Content you submit, unless we specifically tell you
otherwise before you submit it. You license the Content to Yahoo as
set forth below..'
And below it says:
' By submitting Content to any Yahoo
property, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such
Content has expressly granted, Yahoo the royalty-free,...'
So, Basically, they tell you other wise. They don't *own* the content, but they have a non-exclusive license to use it still.
First, I'd advise DELETING the old page..
Well, as you supplied it BEFORE you knew they might do that, then how can you be held at fault?
If they owned the rights to the program, couldn't they change the license though? Is it possible to 'revoke' the GPL from a program??
IANAL, but this is certainly weird.
Actually, what happens if I upload warez to their server? Do they then own the rights to microsoft front page?!? LOL
Well. It has 4 ethernet cards, 4 CPUS (and NT ties one card to each CPU) and 4 partitions.
Thats basically 4 seperate computers inside one box under the control of one operating system...
Whats your definition of a cluster?
Personally, I don't really beleive its a cluster, but the fact is, who is really going to have 4 CPUS, 4 eth cards, and 4 partitions to split everything up?
I admit that SCSI drives are faster, because of various reasons, but my real point is: no matter what you do, a spinning disk is going to be slow. Very slow. You can get connection speeds to the internet which are faster than your HDD can actually save the file...
We need some drastically new form of storage media...
SCSI Allows faster transfer rates than the [E]IDE buses, but the actual hard drive is the same speed. The speed of the connection between computer HDD isn't really the problem (what with USB, Firewire, etc), but the speed that the HDD reads the data from the disk is.
Personally, I think we need something completely different, which doesnt involve spinning drives -- which is noisy, generates heat, uses electricity and is also slow. And if you have physical movement inside the disk, there is more chance the drive will break (or the heads will crash into the surface) if you drop/knock the unit.
I honestly don't know what could be used instead of hard drives.. the various types of flash RAM are hideously expensive just for small quantities, and with HDDs expected to reach 300Gb capacities at some point in the future, it had better be BIG as well as fast. Cheap wouldn't be bad either.
Dammit. We are not the ENGLISH. We are Brittish. I happen to be Scottish, and every time some stupid US person speaks about 'England', instead of the UK, or Britain, I get slightly annoyed. How would you like it if I called the US Washington, or New York or something?
On the main page of their test, zdnet state: 'despite significant tuning improvements made on the Linux side, Windows NT 4.0 still beat Linux'..
They didn't, however mention the fact that they formatted the fileserving partitions into 4 separate partitions to improve WinNT's performance on the front page, did they?
Although I can accept that Windows NT might possibly be able to beat Linux, the wording of that reveiw doesn't make me particularly confident it was 100% un-biased.
On a completely off-topic note: while i was editing my preferences the number of comments on this story more than doubled, in about 5 minutes. wow.
Actually:
Team slashdot wasn't the only team spammed.
My team (nildram Ltd -- my isp), was also spammed and so were a few others I know of.
The best idea is to go to your properties on the stats page, and choose to be listed by real name (or participant ID)