Since it requires like 512MB of memory, and the PS2 has...32MB!
Here's the Article
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Since it wasn't in the Slashdot post...here it is!
Unix servers breaking out all over
By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com April 8, 2002, 12:50 PM PT
The Unix server floodgates are opening this week, with Compaq Computer and SGI showing off new systems at the same time that powerhouses IBM and Sun Microsystems release new machines. Compaq has begun shipping test versions of a new line of AlphaServer Unix servers using the EV7 "Marvel" version of the company's Alpha processor, the Houston-based company said Monday. The system uses direct connections between processors, forgoing the usual high-speed switch that typically connects processors in high-end systems, Compaq said.
Also moving ahead is SGI, which thus far hasn't been able to escape the graphics and technical-computing niche and break into the broader business market. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company announced a Unix machine tuned to broadcast markets and began showing its next-generation "Fuel" workstation. The system is based on the top-end 3000 family of Onyx workstations and Origin servers, which have high-speed connections linking processors, memory and video.
But Compaq and SGI haven't achieved the market success of competing Unix servers from IBM, Sun and Hewlett-Packard. Those larger companies are moving aggressively as well, trying to eke sales out of a Unix market that shrank 18.7 percent from $25.3 billion in 2001 to $20.6 billion in 2000.
As expected, IBM released on Monday its p670, a 16-processor machine that's essentially a smaller version of Big Blue's top-end 32-processor p690 "Regatta" server introduced in late 2001.
The p670 has a starting price of $178,000 with four processors, $317,000 with eight, and $536,000 with 16, IBM said. The system can be divided into as many as 16 "partitions"--essentially mini-servers within the overall system--but IBM hasn't yet released software that will allow the sizes of those partitions to be changed without rebooting.
Big Blue's newest machine will compete chiefly against the Unix servers from HP, long king of the midrange market, and from Sun, which will release its own midrange offering, the "Starkitty," on Tuesday. The Starkitty is a lesser version of Sun's 72-processor Sun Fire 15K "Starcat" system.
HP, whose midrange 16-processor rp8400 also has advanced features culled from the company's top-end Superdome model, said Monday that it's the "preferred" provider of servers for some Oracle software used by HP customers to handle interactions with their own customers.
In regard to Compaq's chip and server designs, the company decided to cancel the highly regarded Alpha chip and adopt Intel's Itanium family instead, a move that's not complicated too much by the HP-Compaq merger because HP plans a similar move later with its own PA-RISC chip. HP spawned the idea behind the Itanium family and is working gradually to move from its PA-RISC processors to the Itanium family. Compaq's EV7 will be the last major version of the Alpha.
Compaq's design expertise is expected to live on, though, whether as part of HP or not. The company's designers have built features into the EV7 AlphaServers that can let the systems diagnose and repair some problems, correct data transfer problems automatically, and be easily expanded.
The new EV7 systems are in testing at health care computing company Cerner, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and the French Atomic Commission's Military Applications Department.
SGI also announced at the National Association of Broadcasters conference a new video-on-demand server, a machine that can send out 600 video streams simultaneously. The system is based on the Origin 300 server and has two or four processors, as much as 4GB of memory, and a TP900 storage system. It can be used to send video on networks using Ethernet, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) or Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), SGI said.
Sun, however, is making moves of its own in the market. It teamed up with Sony, which will build video-on-demand servers incorporating Sun computers, the companies said Monday.
Actually, the UNIX market share is going down...
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And Linux is gaining.
Sun sells less boxes, so does SGI, so does IBM.
But there's more Linux out there in the wild. It's not only replacing Microsoft servers, but it's replacing proprietary UNIX machines.
The platform-specific software keeps each UNIX alive (Irix/Solaris etc)
I had a few sheets of bar codes that turned into games one you scanned them in with your phat light pen. Xerox machines would have been banned by the DMCA had that caught on!
I hate getting a book home, and seeing that the "last 50 chapters by 50 different authors" are on the CD and CD only, and the book doesn't talk about anything it should.
A psychologist diagnosed him with depression and schizoid personality disorder, symptoms of which include a lack of desire for social relationships, little or no sex drive and a limited range of emotions in social settings.
"This fed right into the EverQuest playing," Woolley said. "It was the perfect escape."
Now, isn't Everquest a massively online social environment?
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I won't have to worry about carry matches or a campstove with me in the woods!
Their website has a great look!
You've went from a 9600/14.4/19.2/28.8 up to a 3MBS cable modem, or 784k DSL connection
Since it requires like 512MB of memory, and the PS2 has...32MB!
Since it wasn't in the Slashdot post...here it is!
Unix servers breaking out all over
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
April 8, 2002, 12:50 PM PT
The Unix server floodgates are opening this week, with Compaq Computer and SGI showing off new systems at the same time that powerhouses IBM and Sun Microsystems release new machines.
Compaq has begun shipping test versions of a new line of AlphaServer Unix servers using the EV7 "Marvel" version of the company's Alpha processor, the Houston-based company said Monday. The system uses direct connections between processors, forgoing the usual high-speed switch that typically connects processors in high-end systems, Compaq said.
Also moving ahead is SGI, which thus far hasn't been able to escape the graphics and technical-computing niche and break into the broader business market. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company announced a Unix machine tuned to broadcast markets and began showing its next-generation "Fuel" workstation. The system is based on the top-end 3000 family of Onyx workstations and Origin servers, which have high-speed connections linking processors, memory and video.
But Compaq and SGI haven't achieved the market success of competing Unix servers from IBM, Sun and Hewlett-Packard. Those larger companies are moving aggressively as well, trying to eke sales out of a Unix market that shrank 18.7 percent from $25.3 billion in 2001 to $20.6 billion in 2000.
As expected, IBM released on Monday its p670, a 16-processor machine that's essentially a smaller version of Big Blue's top-end 32-processor p690 "Regatta" server introduced in late 2001.
The p670 has a starting price of $178,000 with four processors, $317,000 with eight, and $536,000 with 16, IBM said. The system can be divided into as many as 16 "partitions"--essentially mini-servers within the overall system--but IBM hasn't yet released software that will allow the sizes of those partitions to be changed without rebooting.
Big Blue's newest machine will compete chiefly against the Unix servers from HP, long king of the midrange market, and from Sun, which will release its own midrange offering, the "Starkitty," on Tuesday. The Starkitty is a lesser version of Sun's 72-processor Sun Fire 15K "Starcat" system.
HP, whose midrange 16-processor rp8400 also has advanced features culled from the company's top-end Superdome model, said Monday that it's the "preferred" provider of servers for some Oracle software used by HP customers to handle interactions with their own customers.
In regard to Compaq's chip and server designs, the company decided to cancel the highly regarded Alpha chip and adopt Intel's Itanium family instead, a move that's not complicated too much by the HP-Compaq merger because HP plans a similar move later with its own PA-RISC chip. HP spawned the idea behind the Itanium family and is working gradually to move from its PA-RISC processors to the Itanium family. Compaq's EV7 will be the last major version of the Alpha.
Compaq's design expertise is expected to live on, though, whether as part of HP or not. The company's designers have built features into the EV7 AlphaServers that can let the systems diagnose and repair some problems, correct data transfer problems automatically, and be easily expanded.
The new EV7 systems are in testing at health care computing company Cerner, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and the French Atomic Commission's Military Applications Department.
SGI also announced at the National Association of Broadcasters conference a new video-on-demand server, a machine that can send out 600 video streams simultaneously. The system is based on the Origin 300 server and has two or four processors, as much as 4GB of memory, and a TP900 storage system. It can be used to send video on networks using Ethernet, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) or Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), SGI said.
Sun, however, is making moves of its own in the market. It teamed up with Sony, which will build video-on-demand servers incorporating Sun computers, the companies said Monday.
And Linux is gaining.
Sun sells less boxes, so does SGI, so does IBM.
But there's more Linux out there in the wild. It's not only replacing Microsoft servers, but it's replacing proprietary UNIX machines.
The platform-specific software keeps each UNIX alive (Irix/Solaris etc)
Some LaTeX argument or something...
10,000 people working on Windows XP?
No wonder they have so many problems! The should have a smaller team of say, 20 or 25 people
(ugh)
Remind me to clap my hands next time I walk behind your cubicle
There's a Distributed Computing Forum over at Anandtech
I'd pay a hundred dollars for a mouse like this.
I'd give it to my roomate, and then I would be free of the 'click click click click click' of Diablo!
You don't need audio feedback of the mouse click. With my stereo on or the hum of a richoh copier, I can barely hear it anyway.
Instead, you could write a custom mouse driver that gave you other feedback, such as changing the look, color, or size of the cursor.
That's the easiest way.
Imitate? Go for it
Write an open source, free implementation
They'll deny you support of your Windows machines if you are using Samba, or whatever.
Sure, some of the blame is for Internet Explorer, but I hate having programs automatically installed when I got to certain web pages...
Index cards replace computer databases!
I had a few sheets of bar codes that turned into games one you scanned them in with your phat light pen. Xerox machines would have been banned by the DMCA had that caught on!
Its one of those places that buys and sells used CD's.
For $3 you can copy any CD in the store.
You can't have your cake and eat it too...
How long's the trip for? Don't you get Vacation pay?
I hate getting a book home, and seeing that the "last 50 chapters by 50 different authors" are on the CD and CD only, and the book doesn't talk about anything it should.
Great Plains Business solutions...don't you keep up with the news?
From the article...
A psychologist diagnosed him with depression and schizoid personality disorder, symptoms of which include a lack of desire for social relationships, little or no sex drive and a limited range of emotions in social settings.
"This fed right into the EverQuest playing," Woolley said. "It was the perfect escape."
Now, isn't Everquest a massively online social environment?
Weddings, friendships, etc etc?
First the religious cults....
Next, a group of 10-20 people (probably a real life everquest 'group') will all kill themselves in an intricate suicided plot.
Couldn't he have just fired a few rounds off at school?
GT3 has two fatal flaws:
They need MORE cars and more tracks.
They don't have any 'crash physics'. Plow into people or walls and it doesn't matter. You can't spin people around, etc etc
About the second time today, that I forgot it was April fools. My eyes got about THIS big!